Radical Cataloging

Table of Contents

Preface: What Does “Radical Cataloging” Mean, Anyway?    1
K. R. ROBERTO
Introduction: Cataloging Reform, LC, and Me   5
SANFORD BERMAN

I. CATALOGING IN CONTEXT
The Existential Crisis of a Cataloger   13
BETH THORNTON
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access   18
MATT JOHNSON
Cataloging in Non-Roman Scripts: From Radical to Mainstream Practice   28
BELLA HASS WEINBERG
Ubiquitous Cataloging   40
BRADLEY DILGER and WILLIAM THOMPSON
The Genre Jungle: Organizing Pop Music Recordings   53
MICHAEL SUMMERS
Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules: Metadata Cataloging for Digital
Library Projects   69
JEN WOLFE
This Subfield Kills Fascists: A Highly Selective, Slightly Irreverent Trip Down Radical Cataloging Literature Lane   75
BRIAN HASENSTAB

II. WE CRITICIZE BECAUSE WE CARE
Ranganathan’s Forgotten Law: Save the Time of the Cataloger   83
JENNIFER YOUNG
OCLC: A Review   85
JEFFREY BEALL
Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming   94
TATIANA DE LA TIERRA
Swine—Juvenile Literature?: Good Cataloging vs. Good Public Service   103
JOHN SANDSTROM
Cults, New Religious Movements, and Bias in LC Subject Headings   106
TRACY NECTOUX
(The English Word) That Dares Not Seek Its Name   110
CAROL REID
Folk Art Terminology Revisited: Why It (Still) Matters   112
JOAN M. BENEDETTI
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic: A Drowning Cataloger’s Call to Stop Churning the Subject Headings   126
CHRISTOPHER H. WALKER
Who Moved My Pinakes? Cataloging and Change   141
TINA GROSS
The End of Prohibition   148
CAROL REID
North American Indian Personal Names in National Bibliographies   150
FRANK EXNER, LITTLE BEAR
Useful Cataloging   165
CHRIS DODGE
What Is Going on at the Library of Congress?   170
THOMAS MANN