AFRICANA SUBJECT FUNNEL REPORT
ALC CATALOGING COMMITTEE
Fall 2003
A total of 16 new and 16 revised subject authorities have been submitted to the Library of Congress since the last update (Spring 2003). Initial drafts were submitted to the funnel by Lauer, Janet Stanley (Smithsonsian) and Shoshana Seidman (Northwestern). Some revisions involved changes in the heading.
NEW HEADINGS SUBMITTED
| Akyem (African people) | Pana (Burkinabe people) |
| Bible stories, Amharic | Proverbs, Izere |
| Endo (African people) | Proverbs, Kundu (Cameroon) |
| Izere language | Sapo (African people) |
| Karo (African people) | Vute (African people) |
| Krahn (African people) | Vute language |
| Kundu (Cameroon people) | Wandala (African people) |
| Masks, We (Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia) | Yombe (Zambian people) |
REVISIONS SUBMITTED
| Bwende (African people) | Songye (African people) |
| Imragen (Berber people) | Vili (African people) |
| Kasanga (African people) | We (Cameroon people) |
| Mafa (African people) | We (Côte d’Ivoire and Liberian people) |
| Mandara language | We language |
| Mandari (African people) | Wobe (African people) |
| Mbum (African people) | Wobe language |
| Songs, We (Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia) | Yombe (Congolese people) |
In addition to the above, another 20 Africana headings were submitted by other non-LC libraries since last report. And the coordinator submitted a minor change for Nkundu (African people) without vetting via the funnel. The Appendix lists these other new headings which were approved Jan.-Sept. 2003.
Several of the revisions submitted just before the Spring meeting have since been rejected or modified. For example, Dzing (the name preferred by Biebuyck’s and scholars for a Ghanaian people) was replaced with Ding (Ethnololgue’s version). A mechanism to report these changes to interested parties needs to be developed.
The time for LC processing fell from two months in the Spring to about 4 weeks in October. A bigger delay continues to be researching and processing by the coordinator. Since April 2003, I have added 28 headings to my file of proposed or revised headings. There are dozens of others added earlier that still merit work.
Joseph J. Lauer – Oct. 28, 2003; rev. 1/30/04
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APPENDIX
OTHER NEW AFRICANA SUBJECT HEADINGS
The Weekly List, Jan-Sept. 2003, of LC’s Cataloging Policy and Support Office included the following newly approved headings, in addition to those submitted by the ALC funnel. Those that were not submitted by LC carry the cooperating library’s NUC code at the end.
| Aesthetics, Hausa Africa, Southern--Race relations African letters (French) Amharic character sets (Data processing) – UkOxU Angola--History--2002- Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002 Angolan drama (Portuguese) Antongil Bay (Madagascar) Avikam language - CSt Awutu language Ayn al-Labakhah Site (Egypt) Babanki (African people) – CSt Bella (African people) - NNC Beti (African people)--Music - CaAE Bikutsi - CaAE Biosphere reserves--South Africa Board games--Africa, Northeast - CSt Brava (Cape Verde) Caves--Cameroon Chaouia language - CSt Children's stories, Ghanaian – NN City halls--South Africa Cosmology, Masai Deltas—Mozambique - Uk Epic poetry, Igbo Epic poetry, Mandingo Epistolary fiction, African (French) Epistolary poetry, African (French) Fables, Kaba (Central Sudanic) Folk literature, Egyptian Folk literature, Gurage – UPB Folk literature, Hausa - OO Folk literature, Kinyarwanda Folk poetry, Haya Folk poetry, Swahili Folk songs, Nubian Folk songs, Sukuma Folk songs, Urhobo Fuji (Music) Gay men's writings Ghanaian fiction - NN Gurage literature – UPB Hapi (Egyptian deity) – FU Haya poetry Historical drama, Angolan (Portuguese) Hoanib River (Namibia) Hoanib River Watershed (Namibia) |
Ibarapa (Nigerian people) - CSt Ichaboe Island (Namibia) Igo language Ilala palm Inheritance and succession (Yoruba law) - CSt Inor dialect Islamic music--Nigeria Islands--Namibia Kaba language (Central Sudanic) Kagoro language (Mali) Khelua Site (Egypt) Khonsu (Egyptian deity) - Uk Kilba (African people) KIS (Information retrieval system) - CSt Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve (South Africa) Konni language Koti language Kromdraai Cave (South Africa) Kwanja language Kyoga, Lake (Uganda) Laudatory poetry, Xhosa Loita Forest (Kenya) - WaU Loita Forest (Kenya) - WaU Love stories, Ugandan (English) - UPB Mahgar Dendera Site (Egypt) Malgwa dialect - CLU Manuscripts, Malagasy Mbukushu language Meidum Pyramid (Egypt) - TNJ Melka Kunture Site (Ethiopia) - MH-P Mkaa dialect Moroccan literature (English) Mountains--Malawi - Uk Mulanje Mountains (Malawi) - Uk Ndebele literature (South Africa) Ndebele poetry (South Africa) Nembe (African people) New Kalabsha (Egypt) Ngomba language - InMuB Nigeria--Foreign relations--20th century - CSt Ntwane (African people) - MH-P Nyumba ya Mungu Lake (Tanzania) Ogbronuagum language Owl House (Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa) - DSI Painting, Dogon |
Painting, Ugandan - DSI |
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