Hennepin County Library's catalog and authority is important to Minneapolis for several reasons: it includes subject heading that the Library of Congress classification (created in the 19th Century) does not. Second, we paid the cost of building it for some 26 years, so having HCL decide to dump it without asking for public input is pretty high handed. Third, HCL's catalog has potential as a money maker. Fourth: if you generally use the MPL catalog, you have probably noticed it's shortcomings. Since it's all on the web now, I generally use the HCL catalog for the information, then get the books I need from MPL. Here are a very few subject headings which HCL is terminating from it's catalog: Working Poor People, Homeless Families, Employee Work Monitoring, Women's Movement, Family Planning, Gay & Lesbian Rights, Black History Month, Lobbying, Corporate Welfare, Cyberculture, Business Plans, and Homeless Teenagers. None of these headings appear in the LC Subject headings. HCL's cataloging improvements make up for the shortcomings of our own MPL catalog. Sorry to have been obtuse or opaque, or something. WizardMarks, Central
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