Cruising the Library Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

• Main Author: Adler, Melissa
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Fordham University Press 2017
• Edition: 1
• 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

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...