Importing Hegemony: Library Information Systems and U.S. Hegemony in Canada and Latin America

McKennon discusses the Library of Congress's program of providing preprinted catalog cards for US libraries, and how the Library of Congress Classification system is spreading to Canada and Mexico. By accepting this US classification system, other countries are accepting a biased, US government...

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Published inRadical history review Vol. 2006; no. 95; pp. 45 - 69
Main Author McKennon, Ed
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Duke University Press 2006
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects
Bias
Bibliographies
Classification
Hegemony
History
Imperialism
Information society
Information systems
International relations-US
Knowledge
Libraries
Political Theory
Politics
Postcolonial and Colonial Studies
Social control
Social history
World History
North America
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ISSN0163-6545
1534-1453
DOI10.1215/01636545-2006-95-45

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Summary:McKennon discusses the Library of Congress's program of providing preprinted catalog cards for US libraries, and how the Library of Congress Classification system is spreading to Canada and Mexico. By accepting this US classification system, other countries are accepting a biased, US government-sanctioned view of history and other subjects.
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ISSN:0163-6545
1534-1453
DOI:10.1215/01636545-2006-95-45