The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
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The Queer Perspective on Classification and Cataloging
Cult wants to control how we understand the things that we're encountering under whichever aspect they control. Viewing classification and cataloging from a queer perspective is one that challenges the idea that classification and subject language can ever be corrected once and for all outside of the context in which those decisions take on meaning, he says. "How often have you ever gone to a library and said, wonder where I can find me in this place? How often has that ever been something that you've done?"
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