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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Limits of a Knowledge Organization System

The emphasis on correctness locates the problem of a knowledge organization system too narrowly as the domain of catalogers themselves. As a user services librarian in an academic library, my work with students has made clear the limits of this approach. Even when subject headings are updated to reflect current usage, they do not account for all the other words users might use to describe themselves.

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