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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Importance of Dialogue in Library Knowledge Organization

"Queer theory provides a useful theoretical frame for rethinking the stable fixed categories and systems of naming that characterize the library knowledge organization schemes," she says. "An exploration of this dialogic engagement can productively shift the discussion of what to do about library of Congress categorizing or whatever it is cataloging." She adds: "You'd rather have a queer guru guiding you through the library than having anything that, you know, is stable and fixed and comprehensible"

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