AFRICANA SUBJECT FUNNEL REPORT
ALC CATALOGING COMMITTEE
Spring 2004
A total of 28 new and 20 revised subject authorities have been submitted to the Library of Congress since the last update (Fall 2003). Almost all of these were submitted in March. Initial drafts were submitted to the funnel by Lauer, Janet Stanley (Smithsonian), Shoshana Seidman (Northwestern), and Peter Limb (Michigan State). The 62 new headings submitted from non-funnel sources are listed in the appendix.
Processing at LC takes one-two months if there are no problems. Proposals submitted to the coordinator are usually forwarded within a few weeks if there is no complication. Many do have complications such as related headings that need work, proposed changes that run contrary to current LC practices, and proposals without books to which one would attach the heading. I am currently holding about a dozen headings that have already been sent to the funnel list. I also have notes on several hundred more headings that are mostly of lower priority.
Many of the submitted headings were either changed or held back by LC. In
many cases, this involved differences between “the terminology used in
current literature on the topic in question” (preferred by coordinator & H202)
and the current LC preference for the form used by “authoritative reference
sources.” A message proposing that this be changed was submitted to the
PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) list on May 5th.
Joseph J. Lauer – May 6, 2004
NEW HEADINGS SUBMITTED
|
Abron (African people) |
Hongwe (African people) |
| Babungo (African people) | Jur (African people) |
| Bacama language | Kango (African people) |
| Bangba (African people) | Lamba (Togolese people) |
| Begena or Bagana | Lwoo (African peoples) |
| Bolia (African people) | Mankon (African people) |
| Boyo (African people) | Musgum (African people) |
| Burji (African people) | Ngemba language |
| Cookery, Eritrean | Ngyemboon (African people) |
| Dii (African people) | Ntomba (African people) |
| Dii language | Proverbs, Eviya |
| Eket (African people) | Proverbs, Ngyemboon |
| Geviya language | Reguibat/Regeibat (Arab people) |
| Hausa Sign Language | Sengele (African people) |
REVISIONS SUBMITTED
| Africa, East | Losso (African people) |
| Babungo language | Luo (African people) |
| Bellah (African people) | Mankon dialect |
| Bolia language | Naudeba (African people) |
| Eviya (African people) | Ngyemboon language |
| Fulbe (African people) | Ntomba language |
| Fulfulde language | Nunu (African people) |
| Hemba (African people) | Rendille (African people) |
| Kota (African people) | Rendille language |
| Lamba (African people) | Tukulor (African people) |
APPENDIX
NON-FUNNEL NEW AFRICANA SUBJECT HEADINGS
The Weekly List, Oct. 2003-March 2004, of LC’s Cataloging Policy and Support Office, included the following newly approved headings, in addition to those submitted by the ALC funnel. The cooperating library’s NUC code appears after the entry, except for those from LC. Revised authority records are not included in this list.
| Alo, Lake (Nigeria) | Letter writing, Swahili - InU |
| Arsi (African people) – MnMpUMNX | Love stories, Nigerian (English) -- UPB |
| Art, Mauritian | Masks, Igbo – OgraD |
| Arts--Awards--Zambia -- DSI | Modernism (Art)--African influences -- MdBJ |
| Bilin language | Montu (Egyptian deity) - MH |
| Bir Umm Fawakhir Site (Egypt) | Mpumalanga Provincial Government Complex (South Africa) |
| Burkinabe wit and humor - IEN | Mural painting and decoration, Mozambican |
| Chaouia literature - CSt | Namib-Naukluft Park (Namibia) |
| Civics, Kenyan | Ndzalama Wildlife Reserve (South Africa) - CaAE |
| Comorians -- NNU | Ngoma Awards - DSI |
| Cosmology, San | Niger--Antiquities – MH-P |
| Coups d'etat—Kenya | Older people—Sahara |
| Djuma Game Reserve (South Africa) - CaAE | Political fiction, Kenyan (English) - UkOxU |
| Edo literature - INU | Proverbs, Rendile -- CLU |
| Epic literature, Zulu -- OGraD | Proverbs, Xhosa |
| Ethnology--Comoros | Religious fiction, African (French) – UPB |
| Folk literature, East African - IEN | Rhodes Matopos National Park (Zimbabwe) -- FU |
| Folk poetry, Gabon -- UPB | Sangalan (Guinea : Region) |
| Folk songs, Tamashek | Senepta (Extinct city) -- MiU |
Forest reserves--Cameroon -- Uk |
Senepta (Extinct city) -- MiU |
| Gabon poetry - UPB |
Spy stories, Afrikaans – IEN |
| Ghana--Politics and government--2001- -- CSt | Still-life painting, South African |
| Gogo Falls (Kenya) | Sudan--Politics and government--1899-1956 |
| Hymns, Umbundu – FU | Sumbu National Park (Zambia) - FU |
| Imzad | Takamanda Forest Reserve (Cameroon) -- Uk |
| Imzad music | Tanezzuft Wadi (Libya) |
| In Teduq Site (Niger) – MH-P | Travel posters, South African – IEN |
| Juliopolis (Extinct city) -- MiU | Verse satire, Egyptian |
| Juvenile delinquents' writings, South African | Waterfalls—Kenya |
| Kenya--Politics and government--2003- -- CSt | Women, Khoikhoi |
| Kufan Kanawa Site (Niger) – MH-P | |
| Kunda (African people) |
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