45th chat, November 2 2015: dismantling white, upper class, cisgender, & colonial LC classification
Moderated by @mishiebhat
Storify (pdf, html) by @mishiebhat
Suggested readings:
- Rory Litwin’s interview with Barbara Tillett on Library Juice Press – Litwin interviewed Tillett on the process of getting the Library of Congress to update subject headings in 2006.
- Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front – the first quarter of it is available on Google Books, and I recommend the preface and the introduction.
Discussion questions:
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Q1. How does LCSH affect the work you do at your institution?
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Q2. Is there a better alternative to the SACO process of LCSH review to ensure that change happens?
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Q3. Should we be localizing efforts at our individual institutions to create a more inclusive SH system? Or is a nation-wide system the only way to go?
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Q4. How can we draw non-catalogers into the fold to help create change?
* LCSH = Library of Congress Subject Headings
* SACO = Subject Authority Cooperative Program [for more information on the SACO process, see the first suggested reading]