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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Queer Approach to Classification and Cataloging

The point of libraries literally is supposed to be to bring up new ethical and political engagement on behalf of marginal knowledge formations and identities. A critical cataloging movement, she says, locates the problem of cataloging in particular categories or subject headings invites very clear and functional solutions. Librarians can lobby the subject authority cooperative program of the program for cooperative cataloging for changes that quote fix the problem. She says a queer approach to classification and cataloging suggests no such easy solution.

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