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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Problem With Library of Congress Subject Headings for LGBT Materials

Julian Zelizer says catalogers have long been critical of the way Library of Congress classifies materials. He says such critics are not actually cataloging, they're just bitching in order to gain control. Just as classification and cataloging decisions can be critiqued, so can the revision suggested by critical catalogs, he says. Zelizer: Such corrections are always contingent, in never final, shifting in response to discursive and social change.

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