Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality." Guests: Deb...

The Library of Congress announced in January 2025 that as part of a linked data-friendly “Modern MARC” cataloging practice, they will no longer include form/genre subdivisions (e.g., 600 $v, 650 $v, 6...

SRRT Day of Social Justice, August 4, 2025.

In the course of looking for resources relating to critical cataloging, I stumbled on a new memorandum from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, dated May 9th and titled “Reviewing the Departm...

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The LAIPA (Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas) funnel is working on how people of Latin American descent and Spanish speakers are represented in the Library of Congress subject head...

A bombshell dropped this morning: Diamond Comics Distributors has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy

“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're going to rob, and this is where we're going to hide, and this is how we get away.”