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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Queer Challenge to Library Classification and Cataloging

A queer perspective on classification structure sees categories as discursively produced and historically contingent rather than as essential or articulable once and for all. Grant Campbell and Patrick Kielty have taken up the issue from historical and literary perspectives on queerness. Emily Dribinsky has explored the queer challenge to library classification and cataloging explicitly in spatial terms.

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