Presented at LISDIS 2015, Saturday 15 November 2015

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...

4. METHODOLOGY
300 word taxonomy

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Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings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Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings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Outdated language, vague/undetailed headings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
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