Changing the Subject at Fondren Library: Resources
A 2021 Fondren Fellows Project
Books
Borders and Belonging by ISBN: 9781634001304Publication Date: 2021Borders and Belonging explores the role of libraries as both places of belonging as well as instruments of exclusion, xenophobia and assimilation. ... Through reflective essays, original research, and critical analyses presented by a range of specialists and thought leaders, Borders and Belonging challenges readers to dismantle problematic paradigms.
Pushing the Margins by Call Number: Z682.4 .M56 P87 2018ISBN: 9781634000529Publication Date: 2018Using intersectionality as a framework, this edited collection explores the experiences of women of color in library and information science (LIS). ... This book examines how lived experiences of social identities affect women of color and their work in LIS.
Topographies of Whiteness by Call Number: Z716.4 .T65 2017ISBN: 9781634000222Publication Date: 2017Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissure whiteness at work. ... This volume also considers possibilities for challenging oppressive legacies and charting a new course towards anti-racist librarianship, whether in the classroom, at the reference desk, or elsewhere.
Sorting Things Out by Call Number: BD175 .B68 1999ISBN: 0262024616Publication Date: 1999In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. ... The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.- Prejudices and Antipathies by Call Number: Z695.U48 B45ISBN: 081080431XPublication Date: 1971"Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People,[7] sparked a movement to correct biased subject headings. Berman listed 225 headings with proposed alterations, additions, or deletions and cross-references to "more accurately reflect the language used in addressing these topics, to rectify errors of bias, and to better guide librarians and readers to material of interest."" Also available online: https://www.sanfordberman.org/prejant.htm
Impossible Subjects by Call Number: JV6483 .N49 2014ISBN: 1400850231Publication Date: 2014This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Articles
- Gross, Tina. (2022). "Search terms up for debate: the politics and purpose of library subject headings." Perspectives on History. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2022/search-terms-up-for-debate-the-politics-and-purpose-of-library-subject-headings
- Baron, Jill E. and Gross, Tina. (2021). "Sorrow, Fury, Helplessness, and Cynicism: An Account of the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal aliens"." Dartmouth Library Staff Publications. 34. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/dlstaffpubs/34
- George, Grant, E., Kellett, C., & Pettitt, K. (2021). A Path for Moving Forward with Local Changes to the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal Aliens.” Library Resources & Technical Services, 65(3), 84–. https://onesearch.library.rice.edu/permalink/01RICE_INST/1hp1nr6/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A674880146
- Wiederhold, & Reeve, G. F. (2021). Authority Control Today: Principles, Practices, and Trends. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(2-3), 129–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1881009
- Grace Lo (2019) “Aliens” vs. Catalogers: Bias in the Library of Congress Subject Heading, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 38:4, 170-196, DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2019.1696069
- Lacey. (2018). Aliens in the Library: The Classification of Migration. Knowledge Organization, 45(5), 358–379.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/fcc156c72af286d00ed94e0381875800/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2035306 - Knight, F. Tim, "What About Classification Bias?: Channeling Sandy Berman" (2017). Librarian Publications & Presentations. 25. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/25
Websites
The Cataloging Lab is a place for catalogers and anyone who cares about library metadata to experiment with creating better controlled vocabularies. Suggesting additions and changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings vocabulary can be an isolating endeavor—it can be difficult to determine if your heading has already been proposed or if someone else is working on a proposal at the same time you are. The Cataloging Lab is designed to be a wiki where folks can collaborate on headings together to create stronger proposals.
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