Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Cruising the Library
Author: Melissa AdlerPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823276376
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.
The Quarterly Journal of Agricult
Author: Wiliam adn SonsCongressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
Author: William BlackwoodAmerica's Greatest Library
Author: John Young ColePublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
The Quarterly Journal Of Agriciture
Author: William Blackwood Library Of Congress
Author: John Y ColePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045635
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
At the turn of the century, Herbert Small, a newspaperman, wrote a guide to the building and its decoration. His text, edited by Henry Hope Reed, is reproduced here. It is preceded by introductory essays by historian and Librarian of Congress Emeritus Daniel J. Boorstin and noted writer Brendan Gill. The planning and construction of the building are detailed in John Y.