Drinking coffee and saving the world
reflections on MDG subject analysis World Cafe in London
Keywords:
Library of Congress Subject Headings, Cataloguing ethics, subject analysisAbstract
This article summarises the outcomes of MDG's first subject analysis World Cafe event in London, organised in response to the controversial changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico in February 2025 and the ethical challenges these changes pose for users of LCSH.
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