by Alissa McCulloch | Sep 29, 2026 | News Digests
In the news Library and Archives Canada has established the heading Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) in the Canadian Subject Heading thesaurus (CSH), in response to Canada’s southern neighbour unilaterally renaming its half of the lake to ‘America,...
by Alissa McCulloch | Aug 31, 2026 | News Digests
In the news Donald Trump has signed an executive order to unilaterally rename Lake Ontario, the westernmost of North America’s Great Lakes, to ‘Lake America’, following the breakdown of trade talks with Canada. The change is already taking effect in...
by Alissa McCulloch | Jul 23, 2026 | News Digests
In the news David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart has opened its new library, Phrontisterion. As reported by ABC News, the library has foresworn Dewey and other traditional classification systems in favour of… well, nothing. Books are...
by Alissa McCulloch | Apr 2, 2026 | News Digests
Australian Subject Analysis Project The Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP) are hosting a survey on the use of subject headings and controlled vocabularies in Australian library catalogues, to inform the future direction of the project. All librarians are...
by Alissa McCulloch | Mar 6, 2026 | News Digests
Rare Books Cataloguing The Bibliographic Standards Committee of RBMS has recently published a new document, “Recommendations for the Creation of Harmful Metadata and/or Harmful Language Statements.” It is publicly available within the ALA Institutional Repository...
