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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Paradox of Queer Cataloging

Public service librarians already engage in dialogue with users about classification and cataloging. When these interactions are informed by a queer analytic, such work shifts from one of correcting the user's engagement to teaching them how to understand information. This strategy suggests the possibility of a queer library politics which is what she has at the ALA but why we should all leave it.

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