A domain-analytic perspective on sexual health in LCSH and RVM
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This paper analyses and compares the treatment of sexual health in Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Répertoire de vedettes-matière de l’Université Laval (RVM) using three of Bowker and Star’s (1999) infrastructural inversion techniques: practical politics, convergence, and resistance. Our findings reveal that neither LCSH nor RVM offer a holistic representation of sexual health (practical politics), that LCSH’s topical representation of sexual health limits access to relevant material (convergence), and that the enhancement of LCSH through user-added content could improve but not replace these systems (resistance).
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2017 ◽
1982 ◽
Vol 1
(2-3)
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pp. 105-124
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