Author: Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Provides a list of subject headings for use in smaller libraries.

Author: Lorene Byron Brown
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1563082527
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Brown's work offers subject access to materials on all aspects of African American life and culture-from the A.M.E. Church to zoning. Using the same format as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the book lists approximately 3,000 subject headings that are interfaced with and interlinked to the LCSH and provide a logical continuum for the subject access of materials on the African American experience in the United States. As a supplement to LCSH, this list will be invaluable to catalogers. Useful as a search tool for patrons of academic, public, special, and school library/information centers, the book will also serve library professionals in collection development and benefit students and faculty involved with African American studies.

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1624

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Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1596

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Author: Melissa Adler
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823276376
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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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.

Author: Library of Congress. Policy and Standards Division
Publisher:
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Category : Form headings
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject cataloging
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: James S. Jackson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472026186
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative approaches—and how best to employ them for research on specific demographic groups. The volume opens with a brief introduction to the difficulty of defining a population and designing a research program and then moves to illustrative examples drawn from the contributors’ own studies of Blacks in the United States, the Caribbean, and South Africa. Case studies cover research on the media, mental health, churches, work, marital relationships, education, and family roles.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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