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Chloe (she/her) @cmisorski.bsky.social · Aug 25
ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites participation in a survey investigating potential impacts of the Library of Congress' omission of form subdivisions ($v) in subject headings. Please share!
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Feedback Survey about Form Subdivision ($v) Omission from Subject Headings
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...
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Jul 29
I'm so sorry Violet, that's horrible.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Jul 15
The SRRT Day of Social Justice on Monday August 4th will focus on "AI and Social Justice." Free, online, open to everyone. Topics include critical AI resistance, the socio-environmental impacts of AI, technoableism, AI literacy in carceral settings, & more.
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SRRT Day of Social Justice
SRRT Day of Social Justice, August 4, 2025.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Jun 2
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring a bunch of news, webinars, blog posts, and more about critical #cataloging in May 2025. cataloginglab.org/2025/05/31/c... #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in May 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · May 11
New blog post at ACRLog: Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries acrlog.org/2025/05/11/t.... I talk about how painful it is that LCSH are being used for this dirty work. #critcat 📚
Targeting Books for Removal at U.S. Military Libraries - ACRLog
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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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 8
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 7
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations
More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.
www.latimes.com
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Apr 3
Sure, I would be happy to see it!
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Mar 31
New issue of Critcatenate now available featuring all the critical #cataloging news I could find this month. 📚 come for the yelling about bad #LCSH decisions, consider volunteering for one of the many committee opportunities! cataloginglab.org/2025/03/31/c... #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in March 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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magsjoy.bsky.social @magsjoy.bsky.social · Apr 3
Thanks to all of the excellent members of the working groups; we put together some good arguments and resources on the importance of cataloging and metadata work!!
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Apr 3
Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚
A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Apr 3
If you send me a DM with your name/email, I will add you to our list of members. We're hoping to send an email in the next week or so to schedule our first meeting.
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Apr 2
We're really hoping to provide information for small libraries and public libraries and are hoping to also help with advocating for changes on vendor provided metadata
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Apr 2
We're still looking for volunteers for a working group on local authorities to address the recent #LCSH changes to Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. The working group aims to provide guidance on how libraries can either change their subject display or create local authorities #critcat
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · Apr 2
IMLS Matters.

Read the stories (reload gets a new story).

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Tell your story.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From @thomaspadilla.bsky.social at Author's Alliance.

#SaveIMLS
Interior view: Card catalog drawers are on the desk. Book shelves line the wall behind the desk. A woman in professional dress looks through a catalog drawer.
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Rebecca Saunders @killerbex.bsky.social · Mar 27
Call for volunteers to ALA SAC Local Authorities Working Group! #critlib #critcat
In response to the recent LCSH changes to Gulf of Mexico and Denali, there is increased interest in promoting awareness and providing information on how to change display names and/or create local authority records.
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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · Mar 15
Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”
Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · Mar 14
Librarians doing anticipatory obedience 😡 🤢 💔

classweb.org/approved-sub...

151 Denali, Mount (Alaska) CHANGE HEADING
151 McKinley, Mount (Alaska) [sp 85082617 ]

151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING
151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ]

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Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (2025)Library of Congress Subject Headings (2025)
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Mar 14
In unsurprising news, tentative list 12a for #LCSH just published: classweb.org/approved-sub... and the headings are now officially "America, Gulf of" and "McKinley, Mount (Alaska)."

So now the workarounds can begin #critcat
Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (2025)Library of Congress Subject Headings (2025)
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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · Mar 10
Trans authors--email your favorite library cataloger to update your name to what you want it to be in WorldCat/Google Books. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Feb 28
New issue of Critcatenate now available for those interested in critical approaches to metadata in libraries & archives. Lots of events coming up! cataloginglab.org/2025/02/28/c... 📚 #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in February 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · Feb 21
LC gave one day's notice to change the subject heading to "Gulf of America" but its own country code for Zimbabwe still references the white supremacist-run Rhodesia, which gained internationally-recognized independence as Zimbabwe in... 1980
MARC Code List for Countries - Library of Congress MARC standards office Last updated April 4, 2008 to incorporate 12 additions]
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#LibrariesResist @librariesresist.bsky.social · Feb 18
Also on this list is changing Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley.
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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · Feb 18
📚🍉LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
TENTATIVE MONTHLY LIST 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)

classweb.org/tentative-su...

Do you have any concerns? Email: [email protected] by Tuesday, February 18, 2025 (that's TODAY)

#GulfOfMexico #GulfOfLegality
screenshot of the page linked with this text: 151 Gulf States [sp 85057890 ] 680 Here are entered works on the states of the United States that border on the Gulf of Mexico. DELETE FIELD 680 Here are entered works on the states of the United States that border on the Gulf of America. ADD FIELD 151 Houma Valley [sp 95010826 ] 550 BT Submarine valleys--Mexico, Gulf of DELETE FIELD 550 BT Submarine valleys--America, Gulf of ADD FIELD 151 Loop Current [sp2011002036] 451 UF Gulf of America Loop Current ADD FIELD 550 BT Ocean currents--Mexico, Gulf of DELETE FIELD 550 BT Ocean currents--America, Gulf of ADD FIELD 150 Marine sediments--Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING 150 Marine sediments--America, Gulf of [sp 85081270 ] 450 UF Marine sediments--Mexico, Gulf of [Former heading] 688 Heading changed from Marine sediments--Mexico, Gulf of to Marine sediments--America, Gulf of in March 2025. 151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING 151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ] 072 H 1145.5 451 UF Golfo de Méjico 451 UF Golfo de Mexico 451 UF Gulf of America 451 UF Gulf of Mexico 451 UF Mexico, Gulf of [Former heading] 550 BT Bays--Mexico 550 BT Bays--United States 688 Heading changed from Mexico, Gulf of to America, Gulf of in March 2025. 781 America, Gulf of
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Feb 18
Also on the list: "Denali, Mount (Alaska)" being changed to "McKinley, Mount (Alaska)"
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Feb 18
LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to [email protected] by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Feb 11
Cataloging friends, consider cueing up a local authority record for "Gulf of Mexico" for when the #LCSH is changed. If you're in a consortium, start those discussions now. #critcat
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Allison @readaway.bsky.social · Feb 1
This is great!
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