Kinsey Institute (KI) librarians created Sexual Nomenclature in the 1970s as a means of improving cataloging accuracy for KI collections. This article traces the two origins of the thesaurus: Alfred Kinsey's original library organization in the 1940s and 1950s and gay and lesbian library activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Sexual Nomenclature 's authors aimed to create and to deploy sex-specific terms that other libraries could use to improve user access to and knowledge of sex-related materials. An examination of Sexual Nomenclature 's functionality in the past and present demonstrates both the difficulty and necessity of keeping controlled vocabularies for sexological concepts up-to-date.

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主题如何重要：金赛研究所的性命名法：同义词库 (1976)

金赛研究所 (KI) 的图书馆员在 1970 年代创建了性命名法，作为提高 KI 馆藏编目准确性的一种手段。本文追溯了同义词库的两个起源：Alfred Kinsey 在 1940 年代和 1950 年代的原始图书馆组织以及 1960 年代和 1970 年代的同性恋图书馆激进主义。Sexual Nomenclature 的作者旨在创建和部署特定于性别的术语，其他图书馆可以使用这些术语来改善用户对性相关材料的访问和知识。对性命名法过去和现在的功能的检查表明，保持性学概念的受控词汇表是最新的既困难又必要。