Sandy Berman LCSH Scorecard December 2010
2010 victories on Sandy Berman's latest Library of Congress Subject Heading personal scorecard (pdf) include...
2010 victories on Sandy Berman's latest Library of Congress Subject Heading personal scorecard (pdf) include...
The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the Week for Week 46, November 17, 2010 are...
Some visual clues:
October 6 will be Sandy Berman's 77th birthday. To celebrate and to thank him for everything he's done so far, you might want to consider sending him a birthday card, like a lot of people did last year and the year before.
I have to admit I'm getting a little sick of this game and also I'm becoming increasingly demoralized about the efficacy of subject headings, even if we could convince the Library of Congress to fucking acknowledge BUTCHES and FEMMES, the FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT, SEX WORKERS, FREEGANISM, and, for the love of dog, FOLKSONOMY. (See a larger list of Sandy Berman's suggestions if you don't already get the idea.)
But for some reason I can't let go, so here I give you a three for one on LCSH Watch!
Week 1, January 6, 2010, Week 2, January 13, 2010, and Week 3, January 20, 2010:
Anti-copyright movement
Condom use—Religious aspects
Corn mummies
Cultural intelligence
D.C. hand dance
Enemies
Feminism on television
Handball players
Happy hours
Jewish transgender people
Lesbian photographers
Mind and body in motion pictures
Orphan works (Copyright)
Pink in art
Stupidity in art
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Work life balance
Among Sandy Berman's latest recommendations to the Library of Congress Subject Authority Cooperative is CYBERCHONDRIA.
October 6 will be Sandy Berman's 76th birthday. To celebrate and to thank him for everything he's done so far, you might want to consider sending him a birthday card, like a lot of people did last year.
Send cards in the mail to:
4400 Morningside Rd.
Edina, MN
55416-5043
My Radical Reference bud James Jacobs was good enough to post Sandy Berman's latest Personal LCSH Scorecard (meaning subject heading's he has proposed to the Library of Congress) to the Rad Ref site. The first part of the scorecard identifies headings that LC has adopted, and the second part lists headings yet to be accepted. I thought I'd second my favorites from the latter list...
Sandy Berman sent me this news service article about the decline of the US Postal Service printed from his local paper. I agree with it when it comes to the USPS, but also think you could substitute the word "library" for "post office" and have it be equally true.
In a letter dated June 2, 2009, Sandy Berman writes to Eric Holder, Attorney-General:
"I'm hardly an expert on international law.
"Just a retired librarian.
"But since Nuremberg, isn't 'following orders'
inadmissible as a defense against charges of
committing torture, atrocities, and war crimes?
"With warmest regards,
"Sanford Berman"
In a letter to the Cataloging Policy & Support Office dated April 30, 2009, Sandy Berman recommended that the following headings be added to the record for The Lorax:
ECO-POETRY
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION--POETRY
GREED--POETRY
GROWTH (ECONOMICS)--POETRY
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION--POETRY
UNNECESSARY THINGS--POETRY