#lcsh

[thefearofcod]

HELLO? “MAY SUBDIVIDE GEOGRAPHICALLY”??? HOW? WHERE?? WHAT ARE THE MIDDLE EARTH GEOGRAPHICAL SUBDIVISIONS?? WHO DID THIS HEADING. HELLO?? HELLO ?? ?

[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.

[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.

[may-subd-geog]

Question/Answer on cataloging issues – March 2017 Question: What kinds of subject headings are used for false information? How do Library of Congress Subject Headings describe fallacies? Subm…

[jackrabbitbites]

"The average Library of Congress Subject Heading is a sub" is just a statistical error. Subd Geog, who can be found across 10,000 slutty, slutty PDFs, is an outlier and should not be counted.

[improbablelcsh]

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