This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line library workers, address topics ranging from criticisms of the state of the profession and traditional Library of Congress cataloging to methods of making cataloging more inclusive and helpful to library users.
Other essay topics include historical overviews of cataloging practices and the literature they generate, first-person discussions of library workers' experiences with cataloging or metadata work, and the implications behind what materials get cataloged, who catalogs them, and how. Several essays provide a critical overview of innovative cataloging practices and the ways that such practices have been successfully integrated in many of the nation's leading libraries.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"interesting historical overview...offers practical recommendations"-Booklist; "doesn't disappoint"-American Libraries; "every voice in this volume is valuable. Some essays are funny, some filled with righteous outrage, but each is a learning experience...will help catalogers discover, or nurture, their radical side"-Technicalities; "a good book that feeds the fire of the revolutionary cataloger...a must-read"-Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services; "W&L urges readers to ensure their institutional librarians consider purchasing [this] book. It includes many items of interest to librarians and all of us interested in how knowledge and points of view will or won't be preserved or discoverable, if preserved"-Women and Language.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
8 photos, notes, bibliographies, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-3543-2 (9780786435432)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
K.R. Roberto is the serials/electronic resources librarian at the University of Denver. Roberto is the co-editor of Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out (2003).
Table of Contents
Preface: What Does "Radical Cataloging" Mean, Anyway?
K. R. ROBERTO
Introduction: Cataloging Reform, LC, and Me
SANFORD BERMAN
I. CATALOGING IN CONTEXT
The Existential Crisis of a Cataloger
BETH THORNTON
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access
MATT JOHNSON
Cataloging in Non-Roman Scripts: From Radical to Mainstream Practice
BELLA HASS WEINBERG
Ubiquitous Cataloging
BRADLEY DILGER and WILLIAM THOMPSON
The Genre Jungle: Organizing Pop Music Recordings
MICHAEL SUMMERS
Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules: Metadata Cataloging for Digital
Library Projects
JEN WOLFE
This Subfield Kills Fascists: A Highly Selective, Slightly Irreverent Trip Down Radical Cataloging Literature Lane
BRIAN HASENSTAB
II. WE CRITICIZE BECAUSE WE CARE
Ranganathan's Forgotten Law: Save the Time of the Cataloger
JENNIFER YOUNG
OCLC: A Review
JEFFREY BEALL
Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming
TATIANA DE LA TIERRA
Swine-Juvenile Literature?: Good Cataloging vs. Good Public Service
JOHN SANDSTROM
Cults, New Religious Movements, and Bias in LC Subject Headings
TRACY NECTOUX
(The English Word) That Dares Not Seek Its Name
CAROL REID
Folk Art Terminology Revisited: Why It (Still) Matters
JOAN M. BENEDETTI
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic: A Drowning Cataloger's Call to Stop Churning the Subject Headings
CHRISTOPHER H. WALKER
Who Moved My Pinakes? Cataloging and Change
TINA GROSS
The End of Prohibition
CAROL REID
North American Indian Personal Names in National Bibliographies
FRANK EXNER, LITTLE BEAR
Useful Cataloging
CHRIS DODGE
What Is Going on at the Library of Congress?
THOMAS MANN
III. INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
Don't Class Me in Antiquities! Giving Voice to Native American Materials
KELLY WEBSTER and ANN DOYLE
Teaching the Radical Catalog
EMILY DRABINSKI
Browsing Bergman, Finding Fellini, Cataloging Kurosawa: Alternative Approaches to Cataloging Foreign Language Films in Academic Libraries
MICHELLE EMANUEL and SUSANNAH BENEDETTI
User-Centered Serials Cataloging
WENDY BAIA
"Why Isn't My Book on the Shelf?" and Other Mysteries of the Library
ROBIN
AACR2-Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College
JENNA FREEDMAN
CE-MARC: The Educator's Library "Receipt"
TOM ADAMICH
Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag
JENNIFER ERICA SWEDA
Drawing Reference Librarians into the Fold
DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
MARC: It's Not Just for Cataloging Anymore
DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
"Respect My Authoritah": Eric Cartman and Enhanced Subject Access
DANIEL CANNCASCIATO
High-Speed Cataloging Without Sacrificing Subject Access or Authority
Control: A Case Study
CARRIE PRESTON
Monographic Collections Structure and Layout Revisions: Or, How
Tweak LC Call Numbers for the Good of Your Users
BRIAN R. THOMPSON
Cataloging Heresy
A. ARRO SMITH
Talkin' the Cataloging Blues: The Poetry of Albert Huffstickler
SYLVIA MANNING
About the Contributors
Index
