Narrator/Gender Heading

There are two narrators where NLS has put a note for both Male Narrator and Female Narrator. 

Grosland, Emmett should be Male Narrator
Harrison, B. J. should be Male Narrator

I used the Change Headings tool to add the appropriate Subject Heading.

Please feel free to add any others you are aware of to this thread.

Regards,

James Gleason

This does bring up the issue of non-binary narrators. Em Grosland uses both he/him and they/them, so Male Narrator is appropriate, but I'm sure there are voice actors for whom neither label is appropriate. (Incidentally, Em is the narrator for A Psalm for the Wild-Built, which is the book equivalent of a warm cup of tea on a rainy day and I recommend it highly.)

Do any libraries maintain a Non-Binary Narrator heading? Or do you not include either? Does anyone have a good standard operating procedure here?

As with so many things in life, "it's complicated." These two headings exist because patrons with hearing loss sometimes can't hear voices of a certain type as well (or at all) as others. NLS' solution was to create these two headings to use as an exclusion. I can honestly say; I have no idea what would be sued instead of male or female. "Low" or "high" doesn't work but is getting there.