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Peggy, I haven't heard of any moves within LC to shift from E/F for Native American art or from TR for photography. Some contemporary Indian artists, particularly if the style and/or iconography is not especially traditional (whatever that means), may be classified in N rather than E/F. I tried to find an example in the LC catalog and only found E/Fs. But I know I've heard LC say that they do classify contemporary Indian artists in N. Generally speaking, this is not an era when doing a major reclassification is likely to be pursued .... for a variety of reasons. On classifying photography, you might mention (and you may have already) the NH schedule which is used by a number of libraries and which was reissued in a new edition which is available from the ARLIS/NA website. Hope this helps even if it doesn't necessarily make you or your students particularly happy. Sherman Clarke New York University Libraries [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: Peggy Keeran <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 3:58 pm Subject: [ARLIS-L] Question about LC class and certain arts To: [log in to unmask] > Sorry if this question has been asked before. > > I was teaching a library research class to a group of photography > students, and started discussing the LC classification system and the > arts. I pointed out that Native American arts created by Native > Americans are in history, not in Fine Arts, and that photography is in > technology rather than fine arts. I said that this is a historic > hangover from when LC was established at the turn of the 20th century. > A Native American student wants to know if LC is working to correct > this, or if things are going to stay the way they are. I told her that > in terms of photography, I doubt that the books would be moved, but that > I'm less certain about arts by Native Americans (and other non-Western > European cultures). Do you all know what LC is doing in these cases? > > Please respond off-list. > > Thanks! > > --Peggy > > Peggy Keeran > Arts and Humanities Reference Librarian > Penrose Library > University of Denver > 2150 E. Evans Avenue > Denver, CO 80208 > > Voice: 303-871-3410 > Fax: 303-871-3446 > Email: [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]