Cruising the Library Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity unt...

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Main Author: Adler, Melissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Fordham University Press 2017
Edition:1
Subjects:
American Studies
Classification
Classification, Library of Congress-Evaluation
Classification-Books-Minorities
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
History of Sexuality
Knowledge management
Knowledge Organization
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
LGBTQ Studies
Libraries
Library & Information Science
Library of Congress
Library Science
Perversion
Queer theory
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Social sciences-Terminology
Sociology
Subject cataloging-Social aspects-United States
Subject headings, Library of Congress-Evaluation
Subject headings-Sexual minorities
American Studies
Library & Information Science
Perversion
LGBTQ Studies
Classification
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Libraries
Queer theory
History of Sexuality
Knowledge Organization
Library of Congress
ISBN:9780823276363, 0823276368
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents PREFACE Introduction: CHAPTER 1: Naming Subjects: CHAPTER 2: Labeling Obscenity: CHAPTER 3: Mapping Perversion: CHAPTER 4: Aberrations in the Catalog CHAPTER 5: The Trouble with Access/Toward Reparative Taxonomies Epilogue: Acknowledgments NOTES GENERAL INDEX INDEX TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS INDEX TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATIONS
  • Cover -- CRUISING THE LIBRARY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged -- 1. Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias" -- 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection -- 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. -- 4. Aberrations in the Catalog -- 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies -- Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- General Index -- Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings -- Index to Library of Congress Classifications
  • Chapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog --
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Contents --
  • Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged --
  • Index to Library of Congress Classifications
  • Chapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection --
  • Preface --
  • Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings --
  • Chapter 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies --
  • Chapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. --
  • Frontmatter --
  • General Index --
  • Chapter 1. Naming Subjects: “Paraphilias” --
  • Notes --
  • Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library --