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Wine, Witchcraft, Women, Wool: Classifying Women's Studies Collections - Sarah Hume
- 1. Wine, Witchcraft, Women, Wool: Classifying Women's Studies Collections Sarah Hume #LISDIS sarahfhume
- 2. Anyone who genuinely thinks that cataloging tools and copy are okay probably has not looked at them lately Sanford Berman, “Cataloging Tools and ‘Copy’: The Myth of Acceptability a Public Librarian’s Viewpoint,” in Cataloging Heresy: Challenging the Standard Bibliographic Product, ed. Bella Hass Weinberg (Medford: Learned Information Inc., 1992), 36. Sanford Berman:
- 3. Facets of a self You are your gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, health...
- 5. METHODOLOGY 300 word taxonomy Each term mapped to DDC number and LCSH
- 6. METHODOLOGY 300 word taxonomy Each term mapped to DDC number and LCSH Results analysed
- 7. DDC
- 8. DDC One to one mapping - 48%
- 9. DDC One to one mapping - 48% Includes medical and legal concepts
- 10. DDC One to one mapping - 48% Includes medical and legal concepts Complex mapping - 8%
- 11. DDC One to one mapping - 48% Includes medical and legal concepts Complex mapping - 8% Compound terms, inappropriate contexts
- 12. DDC One to one mapping - 48% Includes medical and legal concepts Complex mapping - 8% Compound terms, inappropriate contexts No mapping - 44%
- 13. DDC One to one mapping - 48% Includes medical and legal concepts Complex mapping - 8% Compound terms, inappropriate contexts No mapping - 44% Discipline specific concepts, concepts of gender and sexuality
- 14. LCSH
- 15. LCSH One to one mapping - 63%
- 16. LCSH One to one mapping - 63% Medical and legal concepts, colloquial phrases
- 17. LCSH One to one mapping - 63% Medical and legal concepts, colloquial phrases Complex mapping - 11%
- 18. LCSH One to one mapping - 63% Medical and legal concepts, colloquial phrases Complex mapping - 11% Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings
- 19. LCSH One to one mapping - 63% Medical and legal concepts, colloquial phrases Complex mapping - 11% Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings No mapping - 26%
- 20. LCSH One to one mapping - 63% Medical and legal concepts, colloquial phrases Complex mapping - 11% Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings No mapping - 26% Feminism, sexuality, gender, intersectionality
- 21. Conclusions
- 22. Conclusions DDC is not suitable for a stand alone Women's Studies collection
- 23. Conclusions LCSH is slightly more suitable for a Women's Studies collection
- 24. Conclusions Stand alone Women's Studies collections are rare
- 25. The way forward?
- 26. The way forward? Structural changes
- 27. The way forward? Institutional policies
- 28. The way forward? Proactive cataloguing
- 29. All images from Gratisography, Unsplash and Morguefile, Creative Commons Zero sarahfhume slideshare.net/sarahfhume THANK YOU!