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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
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The Trouble With Classification and Cataloging Decisions
LZ Granderson: This is going to be a critical theory in some sense based on the way libraries are catalogued. LZ: She wants to use kind of slang terms to categorize books because that's what people are looking up when they go looking for them. But then these color, the way that people are going to interpret the information that they find, and so she's talking about critique. The attempt at neutrality is framed out as being ideology pretending not to be ideological, trying to adopt a neutral position., he says. "This project has pointed out the trouble with classification and cataloging decisions that are always ideological"
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