Because of the lack of preliminary house afforded in the class schedule and the usage of more decimals to accommodate new topics, it doesn’t encourage additional growth. Encouraging growth within a LCC class schedule is visualized via numerical gaps between class numbers and the overuse of decimals in school numbers signifies the opposite. By contrast, the class numbers assigned to Computer Science (QA75.5-76.95), a wholly new subject of research since LCC was originally constructed, was squeezed right into a small area but is organized with a number of delineations for subcategories and facets of the sphere. The lack of space afforded to a broad swath of subjects additional reinforces the discount and erasure of queer identities, by restraining classification of the ways in which anti-queer and anti-feminist movements have impacted the histories and cultural processes of queer communities. While curiosa would possibly mean “unusual or erotic books” (“Curiosa,” n.d.) or be a euphemism for pornographic works (“Curiosa, n.,” 2021), we posit that in HQ, this was a puritanical catchall for these sexual actions and subjects that aren’t thought of polite to speak of, but are not quite thought of “sexually perverse.” The lack of scope notes and poor terminology creates a veil of mystery behind a term that severely wants updating.
This juvenile courtroom targeted on therapy aims as a substitute of punishment, determined applicable terminology related to juvenile offenders, and made juvenile records confidential. Topics as nuanced as discrimination, gender-primarily based harassment, and sexism in totality want greater than 4 LCC class numbers to adequately delve into every topic. We see lower than entire integers between the numbers assigned for each of those very broad varieties of discrimination, cramping catalogers’ capability to describe them with the specificity that they should be understood. The present discrimination-oriented call numbers are afforded so little area, that it’s difficult to think about room for acknowledgement for the discrimination towards other groups of people that additionally experience gender- or sexuality-based mostly discrimination. Sex discrimination in opposition to ladies. During our examination, we collectively stopped in our tracks at HQ25 “Curiosa,” which happens below “Sexual behaviors and attitudes.” There are no subcategories, and it is also separate from the miscellaneous category of “General particular.” It lacks any scope notes or explanation to clarify what ought to be classed on this vaguely-labeled class number, and the vagueness and prurience of the label engenders intercourse negative and anti-queer understandings of the subjects classed there, which though not clear, can nonetheless be understood as being non-normative, and related to intercourse.
Only “gay”, “lesbian”, and “bisexual” identities are instantly named whereas different queer identities that might fall outside the popular imagination and mainstream media such as pansexuality, greysexuality, aromanticism, polyamory, and asexuality receive an inadequate umbrella time period of “sexual minorities.” While area is given for both trans and intersex people at HQ77.7 and HQ77.97 respectively, the location and labeling of the category numbers appears to be much less of a considerate integration of those subjects. It is clearly seen that too many subjects have been crammed right into a small range of class numbers given the liberal use of decimals in that range to develop. Its pervasive use in the HQ73 to HQ78 range indicates preliminary disregard during design of the class schedule. Using decimal factors to fit in a newer class number inside the established schedule is a typical LCC cataloging observe and is seen in quite a few, if not all out there LCC schedules.
This only furthers the trans erasure seen all through different parts of the schedule. The insufficient level of space for granularity instantly contributes to the queer and trans erasure all through the entire schedule. Again, this already small class quantity range and lack of delineation of subcategories does a poor job at differentiating sexual identities, providing nuance where needed, in addition to placing topics relating to all queer and trans communities together without essential thought on placement or distinctions. Another situation with the representation of lesbian characters in video video games is the lack of company and depth given to their relationships. Welteroth later criticized the transfer in addition to Condé Nast’s lack of notice given to workers, stating that her makes an attempt to seek out a brand new investor were prohibited by the company. As phenomena, sexism and discrimination or harassment based on gender, sex, or sexual orientation aren’t new, and the extent of scholarship and cultural conversation about them warrant far more space and granularity than they are given in HQ.