Wouldn't the field of activity for a woman's bookstore be: 372 Booksellers and bookselling $2 lcsh or maybe 372 Booksellers and bookselling $a Women--Books and reading $2 lcsh or this works better using AAT: 372 Bookselling $2 aat 372 Women--Books and reading $2 lcsh I wouldn't assume that women's bookstores are for lesbians only. Adam Schiff University of Washington Libraries From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shorten, Jay Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:33 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 372 question for women's bookstore The definition of 372, with regards to corporate bodies is "For a corporate body: a field of business in which the corporate body is engaged, its area of competence, responsibility, jurisdiction, etc.". Would "Lesbian community" fall within these parameters? Or even "Women"? It's not a field of business or jurisdiction or even the business' reponsibility, and I can't see how a community would be an area of competence. Perhaps "Feminism", "Lesbian feminism", or "Lesbianism" would be appropriate terms in the 372? They are at least "areas of competence". Jay Shorten Cataloger, Monographs and Electronic Resources Associate Professor of Bibliography Catalog Department University Libraries University of Oklahoma Co-ordinator, Oklahoma (Tornado) NACO Funnel Co-owner, PERSNAME-L, the list about personal names in bibliographic and authority records [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>