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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Importance of Deviant Sexuality

Critics of biased classification argue that the placement of materials in the classification can reflect prejudice about certain identities. Critical work around library classification and cataloging locates bias at both the structural and descriptive level. For example, locating materials about transsexuality at RC 560 point G four five suggests that transsexuality is a psychological disorder that can be remedied with treatment rather than just another way to existing in a gendered world.

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