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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Discipline of Library Classification

Dictionary is descriptive or prescriptive, says the author. It corrals words and sets out how people will use them in the future. But at the same time it controls how we use words according to cultural differences. The term kafers was virtually racist in Zambia when used by US catalogers for describing a coffee cup.

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