#lcsh

[thebookewyrme]

Are you asking for like the metadata that a library might use? We would use the Library of Congress (or possibly Dewey but ewwww Dewey) subject heading system. Unfortunately the actual LCSH is kind of shit about anything having to do with homosexuality, but there is an awesome project called the Homosaurus, which basically fills in all the controlled vocabulary for any and everything having to do with sexuality. The list on the vocabulary page is alphabetical, but if you click on the links it’ll show you related terms in the vocabulary, so once you start with one you can build off of it to build your book metadata. One you might start with is “Gay Erotic Literature”, or the “MLM (Men Loving Men)” heading. From there you can get more specific about the types of characters in the book, themes played upon, and even specific sex acts.

Anyway, that’s how I would do it, because I am a library nerd. If you didn’t want to go that route, I would also use the AO3 master tags, which are a controlled vocabulary of their own and do much the same thing but will be more granular to things more specific to the genre of literature. Unfortunately you probably know where to find a complete list of those, if such a thing exists, better than I.

Cataloguing BL books

For readers of “m/m romance”, “original slash”, etc. what kinds of info would you put in a book index? I’m not thinking in terms of recs but in terms of basic info like genre.

[slapshot1977]

girl this class activity was supposed to be about LCSH and we’ve been talking about religion the whole time what the FUCK is happening

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TITLE: A fireman, looking left, holding the standard for district six.

SERIES TITLE: Firemen's Standards of All Great Districts.

TITLE-ALTERNATIVE: "Kaku daiku matoi kagami: Dai ichi daiku, rokuban gumi."

ARTIST: Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka." ARTIST NATIONALITY: Japanese.

SUBJECT -- AAT: figures (representations) men (male humans) dresses (garments) firefighters.

SUBJECT -- LCSH: Clothing and dress -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.

DESCRIPTION: A fireman (hikeshi), dressed in a heavy quilted jacket and trousers, rope sandals, and wearing a headband, holds the matoi -- a three-dimensional standard used for identification and communication -- for his brigade. A protective glove dangles from his right wrist.

DATE-ORIGINAL: 1876.

COVERAGE-TEMPORAL: Meiji (Japan, 1869-1912).

GENRE: Ukiyo-e.

LANGUAGE: Japanese.

SOURCE: Wood-block Print; Ink on Paper; 14 in. x 9 1/16 in. (355.6 mm x 230.19 mm).

PUBLISHER-ORIGINAL: Okura Magobei.

PUBLISHER-DIGITAL: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College.

Source: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cyw/id/305.

[ephemeral-winter]

sorry it is insane to me that we have a heading for feet in the bible but we DON’T have one for lunar rainbows, which are objectively cooler and more fun. how am i supposed to accurately describe nineteenth century meteorological phenomena now 

just found out that there is a library of congress authorized subject heading for “Feet in the Bible” great to know that the nation’s top librarians are freaks

[banishingsigils]

i finished writing my notes for the interview questions tomorrow, and responded to the question about making a decision without all the information i needed in the most autistic way possible. . .about working on the LCSH and MeSH for autism spectrum disorder. basically that i do like having all the information and i do need time to process and sit with information but i've been learning to live in the uncertainty of not knowing everything more often. i hate it but i'll do it. . .sometimes lol

[lexnadalex]

Regarding the h in "Butoh"

https://lccn.loc.gov/sh90000099

Use "buto" for "butoh", no h, says LCSH.

[digitalstowaway]

@mdzskilledme my personal beef with ddc (and lcsh) is the racism and insensitivity to non-white, non-Christian cultures

I projected this on wwx and thought that wwx would have the same beef bc history and geography are far too vague while religions are a whole mess. Controlled vocabularies/subject headings are getting better but he cringes whenever he comes across something outdated that the catalogers attached to the record of the newest queer history book he bought for the collection.

Lan Wangji has fantasies that Wei Wuxian will turn the library science world on its head and create his own classification system. But then Wei Wuxian fails to sort the laundry again, and Lan Wangji holds his now-grey-used-to-be-white sweater and thinks maybe. It will remain a fantasy.

Modern AU Wei Wuxian is a children's librarian

He does great storytime hour. He gets a huge crowd

He knows all of the best crafts--like really how the fuck does he come up with these ideas?

Teases every single child that comes into the library and they love him for it but also he has made children cry before

Has the best collection of books. He's great at managing his collection

Hates the Dewey decimal system

The children's area is so cheery and full of decorations but his office is mess (no one else steps in there for fear of paperwork avalanche)

Is really bad with getting paperwork in to his boss on time but then he turns around and plans the Best summer reading programs

Jiang Yanli joins the board and she brings Jin Ling to every event. Look at her adopted little brother! He's killing it! She's voting to approve every budget increase he asks for!

[dwindlebunnies]

I'm studying library science as a postgrad and I'm like a week away from being done. It's been hard.

The assignment I'm writing now is for a class that all I've learned is that categorisation can be and is bigoted.

Basically there's a way of labeling and cataloguing books called LCSH, or library of congress subject headings. The USA library of congress has an enormous amount of sway in the information industry of the whole english speaking world, which is already bullshit but anyway. That's not the specific point.

So if you look up 'adhd', you get three headings. You get "Attention-deficit disorder in adults”, “Attention-deficit disorder in adolescents” and “Attention-deficit disorder" (which refers only to children). Bullshit #1.

All of these are nested under seperate headings of their own.

“Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” and “Attention-deficit disorder in adolescence” are nested under “Child psychopathology” and “adolescent psychopathology” respectively.

“Attention-deficit disorder in adults”?

Fucking "Brain Damage" heading.

[archivlibrarianist]

In addition to a video that gives a good explanation of what the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) do and how they are made, this also includes a link to the trailer of and full length of the documentary “Change the Subject,” about the fight to change the pejorative subject heading “Illegal Aliens” to “Undocumented immigrants” (or, as the Library of Congress attempted, “Unauthorized immigration.”).

[organizing-libraryschool]

It’s hard to read, but I am living for this article about LCSH classification in the analogy of a language- maybe computational linguistics IS still relevant to what I want to do?? Article citation: Svenonius, E. (2000). LCSH: Semantics, syntax and specificity. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 29(1/2):17-30.

[zeldahime]

I don't usually do these but what the hell, this is good bedtime procrastination as anything

I don't have a separate WIPs folder, everything is just filed under "Writing," so this'll be fun.

1920s minisode

Before the Beginning

funny xiyao

go lcsh

mamas broken heart

teen aya grows hair

1, 2, and 4 are Good Omens; 3 and 5 are MDZS/CQL; and 6 is Fruits Basket. This doesn't include the bits of writing I have in physical notebooks, of course.

I'll tagggggggg.....

@shriggy-the-rat-king @mysterious-prophetess @chaoticgouda @kaijuno

Feel free to ignore if you'd like! 💞

So, @circumference-pie tagged me and I had to confront the fucking MESS that is my GDrive. I do not have a WIPs folder. Everything is just tossed there. Like my laundry. I am ashamed.

The rules!

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I particularly decided to pick up the ones that are not abandoned there for over a year, because the list would be unbearably long.

The WIPs (Name + fandom)

1) "LBFAD Fic, The 2nd" (Love Between Fairy and Devil)

2) Dark Xiyun (Love Between Fairy and Devil)

3) Notas Xunfeng (Love Between Fairy and Devil)

4) BBBP - WWX loses it (Modao Zushi)

5) The mirror - (Modao Zushi)

As apparently most of the LBFAD crew is already tagged somewhere else, let me expand the team (feel free to ignore if you don't like playing!):

@zeldahime @three--rings @clj-art-blog @mavis-fairy @nattyontherun

[unt5815imagingfinal]

Item  A95766X15:  Cover to Introduction to Cataloging and Classification by Arlene G. Taylor, Daniel Joudrey, David P. Miller

[freakoutgirl]

How to tell my group partners they (or at least one of them) are doing it on the wrong subject 😐

[catalogify]

We helped bring this documentary about Dartmouth activists and the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal aliens” to the Documentaries@Doe series. Everyone was  fired up!

[metadata-uber-alles]

The heading "Asexual people" was added to the Library of Congress Subject Headings in 2016; "Aromantic people" mere months ago in April 2022!

And Homosaurus, a whole new set of vocabulary specifically for queer topics, has been gaining a lot of traction.

Tumblr is cutting off the preview text just before it gets good: "Librarians gathered in 1970 to challenge Library of Congress classifications and catalog subject headings that aligned homosexuality with deviance."

[metadata-uber-alles]

Looking up random terms while I wait for Connexion to unfreeze itself. Today’s small bit of satisfaction is finding out that the Takarazuka Revue has its own Library of Congress heading.