Newsflash! Subject Headings not boring!


Cataloguing… just try dropping that word in a conversation and watch people’s eyes glaze over with boredom, or even worse, complete and utter indifference. But just because John Q. Public may not appreciate the beauty of Library of Congress Subject Headings doesn’t mean we should fret too much. After all, if no one is watching the librarians we can do whatever we want.


Although the vast majority of headings in the LCSH are painfully boring and uniform, clearly someone at the Library of Congress with a sense of humor is taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching... hence this list of weird and wacky subject headings submitted by the students of the McGill Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and friends.

Please add your own with any comments and your name/location if you want.

 

 

 

 



Also, it's interesting to note some of the subheadings and number of records at http://authorities.loc.gov for: Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
--Correspondence (1 record)
--Military leadership (4 records)
--Poetry (1 record)
--Public appearances (2 records)
--Public opinion (2 records)
--Ethics (16 records)
--Juvenile literature (25 records! hmm)


LIst originally appeared in Marginal Librarian, http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/marginal/.

Maintained by Beth Dunning (beth.dunning@mail.mcgill.ca)





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