Relationship Subject Headings

Project status: active

Project coordinators

• Allison Bailund

• Mary Cornell (from Gender & Sexuality Funnel)

• (formerly) Israel Yanez (from Gender & Sexuality Funnel)

Project scope

Look at the current headings for various types of relationships in LCSH and propose new headings and revisions.

Latest updates

• Spouses $x Legal status, laws, etc. and Matrimonial regime removed from the heading Husband and wife. The Library of Congress also editorially established Spouses $x Legal status, laws, et. under Domestic relations. (Originally on list 2405, approved in July 2024)

• Looking at creating a heading for "Romantic relationships" along with some potential narrower terms and adjusting the existing hierarchies accordingly