Month: May 2017

New LCSH!

~ nganin ~ 2 Comments

As always — check out the full approved list

The following are newly approved headings which I proposed [or canceled LCSH in favor of NARs]

  • Sex workers
  • Lap dancers [added BT to Sex workers]
  • Strip teasers [added BT to Sex workers]
  • Prostitutes [added BT to Sex workers]
  • Sex surrogates [added BT to Sex workers] 
  • Board games [LCGFT term]
  • Kings and rulers [added RT to Queens]
  • Cthulhu (Fictitious character)
  • Jennings (Fictitious character)

Here’s the post I wrote a post about Sex workers before I proposed the term.

Onto the headings!

Baseball in dance

Dancers dressed as baseball players
I hope he takes the glove off before trying a lift

 

Baseball in motion pictures

Still from "League of their own"
Name a better baseball movie than LoTO. I’ll wait

 

Camelidae in art

Joe Camel smoking a cigarette
Smoking is COOL, kids!

 

Debt in popular culture

                         This thread is very good.

Extraterrestrial beings on television

Rigel from Farscape
I’m never *not* gonna rep Farscape

 

Framing (Cinematography)

Still from Mad Men
For more amazing cinematog with Moss, see Handmaid’s Tale

 

Holocaust deniers

a dumpster on fire

Human-alien encounters on television

Gillian Anderson as Scully meeting some fans dressed as aliens
Pretty sure I don’t remember this episode

 

Iron in human nutrition

Magneto pulling iron from guy's blood in X2
Remember, too much iron is bad for you

 

Mothers of rock musicians

Image of Geddy Lee and his mother
Geddy’s mom is actually in the book that justified the creation of this heading

 

United States–Foreign relations–2017-

Dumpster fire

United States–Politics and government–2017-

Dumpster fire

Video game designers

Picture of Tracy Fullerton
Tracy Fullerton is working on a game about Walden that sounds p cool

 

LCGFT terms

 

Animal fiction

Comic book cover with Animal from The Muppets
Nailed it

 

Campus fiction

Cover of "Campus Tramp"
Lawrence Block is really tossing us catalogers a bone

 

Mumblecore films

Still from "The Overnight"
Don’t let Adam Scott’s terrible facial hair trick you: The Overnight is v funny

 

Novelizations

Novelization of The Nightmare Before Christmas
A novelization doesn’t seem like it’ll quite capture what makes this movie good

 

Opera adaptations

Still from The Fly, the opera
I hope there’s an aria: “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid”

 

Rock lyrics

Neil Peart lyric sheet for "Closer to the Heart"
If you already think Neil Peart’s lyrics are pretentious [unsubscribe plz] wait’ll you see the way he wrote ’em