I use Sears, personally

[checkers65477]

It's not often enough that Library of Congress Subject Headings make the newspaper.

The front page, no less!  This is the Washington Post version.

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[emmaco.livejournal.com]

Appropriate icon :)

If they wanted to lump them together, why not use British literature rather than English? English is just wrong!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Well, emmaco, "British" literature must not be a LOC subject heading. That's the whole problem. If it's not a carved-in-stone heading, it doesn't exist. :)

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

You can't add any? What happens if there's a new country or something?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Ok, I had to go look this up. They DO update it, but a common complaint is that they are far behind the times. For example, up until 1994 the subject heading was still "Afro-American" which hasn't been used in this country in forever. "Feminism" wasn't used until 1980. Racial, gender, sexual terms are outdated. Hopefully, if there was a new country, they would get to listing it a bit quicker than that. :)

Plus, it looks like there is a huge disconnect between the subject headings library catalogers use, and the ones library patrons try to find. Now that search engines can do such a good job of locating what a person is looking for, it seems as if library subject headings may be past their usefulness. They tend to be pretty artificial. Interesting stuff, huh??

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

Wow, you sure have blinded me :)

Now that I think about it I only rarely look at a subject heading now!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...<3<3

what are you reading? I can't quite tell...

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin. Pretty good, so far.