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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Role of Librarians in Classification

Since the 1970s, librarians have made it their business to critically read subject headings for bias. Marxist professors working in library and information studies make critical engagement with classification central to their work. Librarians have worked to correct which librarians, probably frickin Marxist ones, have worked tocorrect incorrect classification decisions.

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