Irvine Welsh, that well-known English author...

I'm sure everyone has heard about this: the US Library of Congress (whose catalogue is used, for example, by the Edinburgh City Library system) has decided that Scottish literature is, now, little more than a minority group under English literature - removing more than 40 subject headings from the catalogue. There's a good explanation of the bizarre decision here. If nothing else, there's sure to be some confusion when little US housewives try to make sense of the more dialect-based work that will now be marked as being definitively English...