Indigenous peoples of North America cookbooks reclassification

Summary: Library of Congress instructions for classifying cookbooks by and about Ingenious peoples of North America state to class the material in E98.F7 (current in May 2024). This instruction interfiles cookbooks with books about food and foodways and separates the cookbooks about Indigenous peoples of North America from all the other cookbooks that are classed in the TXs. This project moved the cookbooks previously classed in E98.F7 to a new local call number range, TX715.9. 

Procedures

1. Open the list of cookbooks that need to be relocated.
2. Pull books from Special Collections via Aeon.
3. Evaluate material to determine if it is a cookbook or a book about food. If about food, keep in E98.F7.
4. Reclassify cookbooks using TX715.9 in FOLIO.
5. Mark the material for relabeling.
6. Return material to Special Collections.
7. Follow same procedure for new cookbooks about Indigenous peoples of North America.

Why TX715.9?

We opted to use TX715.9 for the following reasons:

1. The Indigenous peoples of North America subject heading encompasses Indigenous people living within the borders of modern-day United States and Canada. American and Canadian cookbooks each have their own classification number in TX715. Thus, we felt it made more sense to establish a new classification number instead of fitting it under American cookbooks (TX715.2) or Canadian cookbooks (TX715.6).
2. American cookbooks (TX715.2) includes ethnic groups post-colonization of the Americas.
3. Because the Library of Congress already treated Indigenous cookbooks as separate from American cookbooks, we followed this pattern.

Note: Indigenous peoples of Mexico are classed with other Mexico cookbooks.