“Our Precious Heritage”: Catholic Subject Headings and the Assertion of Worldview through Cataloging
ORCID
Deirdre Sullivan: 0009-0006-2413-5294
Document Type
Article
Date
10-24-2024
Keywords
Catholicism, cataloging, culture, worldview, Catholic Subject Headings
Language
English
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Dr. Renate Chancellor of Syracuse University for her review of this paper and her guidance as my supervisor for my graduate assistantship. Additionally, I would like to thank Dr. David Walsh of Gettysburg College for his initial thoughts and comments on this paper in its original form as a Religious Studies bachelor’s degree capstone proposal.
Disciplines
Catholic Studies | Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
Catholic Subject Headings, a list of subject headings focused on describing and representing Catholic belief, ritual, and culture, was first published in 1942 by the Catholic Library Association for use in Catholic libraries. The creation of a cataloging tool solely to represent and serve a distinct religious population allows for an imposition of religious worldview by those utilizing Catholic Subject Headings onto the materials they interacted with. The need for a specifically Catholic cataloging system is also revealing of the complex tensions between Catholics and Protestants and within the American Catholic community in 20th century America.
Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Deirdre, "“Our Precious Heritage”: Catholic Subject Headings and the Assertion of Worldview through Cataloging" (2024). School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship. 20.
https://surface.syr.edu/ischoolstudents/20
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This paper is the accepted version of this article, before peer review and publisher changes.