Publication Date
2018
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The article demonstrates how Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) geographic headings for the Southern Levant mirror the political investment of Congress and the American public in Middle East politics over the last thirty years. The headings’ evolution as well as Library of Congress rules governing their creation is charted in detail. These LCSH headings contrast markedly with those established in other national libraries (BnF, DNB) and independent value vocabularies (TGN, GeoNames), and global opinion regarding the legal status of the occupied territories. I sketch the historical context of their formation and offer suggestions as to how libraries can “decolonize” their metadata in service of Sanford Berman’s “access and equity.”
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Recommended Citation
Holloway, Steven W., "LCSH in the Southern Levant" (2018). Libraries. 134.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs/134
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