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
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Fordham University Press 2017
Edition1
Subjects
American Studies
Classification
Classification, Library of Congress
Classification, Library of Congress-Evaluation
Classification-Books-Minorities
Evaluation
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
History of Sexuality
Information organization
Knowledge management
Knowledge Organization
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
LGBTQ Studies
Libraries
Library & Information Science
Library of Congress
Library Science
Minorities
Perversion
Philosophy
Queer theory
Sexual minorities
Social aspects
Social sciences
Social sciences-Terminology
Sociology
Subject cataloging
Subject cataloging-Social aspects-United States
Subject headings
Subject headings, Library of Congress
Subject headings, Library of Congress-Evaluation
Subject headings-Sexual minorities
Terminology
United States
Perversion
Classification
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Libraries
Queer theory
History of Sexuality
Knowledge Organization
Library of Congress
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Summary: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 until 1964.
ISBN:9780823276363
0823276368
9780823276356
082327635X
DOI:10.1515/9780823276387