Suzanne Lipkin Heather Lember Richard Lee

Suzanne Lipkin

The term “radical cataloging” emerged in early 2002 with the creation of an list called RADCAT to discuss the politics of cataloging. (Roberto, 2002) Radical cataloging covers these areas: Cataloging rules Subject headings Radical collections Cataloging to further a cause

“Those information professionals who compile, revise, apply and use these bibliographic instruments, are themselves moral beings with definite beliefs, attitudes, values and world views.” (Dick, 1995) Sanford Berman Hope A. Olson K. R. Roberto

Be user-focused… locally Balance skepticism with proactive improvements Value all kinds of cataloging Recognize the limits of traditional standards Be passionate! (Roberto, 2008) Source:

Beyond Berman: shifting away from addressing “thesaurus problems” to structural problems: Hierarchies of sameness Permanency Proposed solutions Local classification Technological innovations Teaching the radical catalog (Drabinski 2008)

By: Heather R. Lember

 Bias in gender, sexuality, race, age, ability, ethnicity, language, and religion  Catalogs/LCSH created from White-Christian-Male- Heterosexual-Eurocentric perspective  Subject Headings often use unfamiliar language  Insufficient access points  Groups often not cataloged under preferred names

Certain terms automatically gendered as female SRRT’s Task Force on women forms the committee on sexism in Subject Headings in 1976 Presents report on gender bias and sexism in the LCSH Sex discrimination AND Sex discrimination against women added in 1974 Woman changed to Women Feminism established as a subject heading Women as… deleted in 1982 Man changed to Human Beings (1997) Second-Wave Feminism (added in 2005) Third-Wave Feminism (added in 2007)

 Sexual Perversion as cross-reference to Homosexuality & Lesbianism) eliminated in 1972  Hermaphroditism changed to Intersexuality  Intersex People added in 2007  Transgender People added in 2009  Transgenderism added in 2009  Queer Theory added in 2005  Queer – not a current subject heading or RT or UF  Drag King currently Male Impersonator From: classificationweb.net

Local TermLCSH  Indigent Defense → Legal Assistance to the Poor  Voting Rights → Suffrage  Sex Worker → Prostitutes  Civil Liberties → Civil Rights  Non Citizens → Aliens

Illegal Aliens –suggested change = Undocumented Immigrants From: classificationweb.net

Richard J. Lee

 “A zine is a self-publication, motivated by a desire for self- expression, not for profit.” (Barnard Library)"

 Who: dedicated catalogers, volunteers, and librarians  Where: academic libraries typically collect zines on topic(s): Popular Culture, Feminism, Comics & Graphic Novels  When: time permitting, catalogers often go through entirely  How: usually in-house cataloging practices by larger institutions, use mixture of Library of Congress and local  What: shelved alphabetically, possibly in comic book sleeves  Why: successfully sought out by those who identified as educators: access to granular or thematic academic research

 Grassroots, Community, and Student based efforts: Colleges and Universities with student-run zine and comics club: Barnard, Oberlin’s Cat in the Cream Café, Numerous Women’s Centers  BC Zine Library with local scope and students: Comment from student visiting exhibition  “It reminds me of my own scrapbooking hobby. The ritual of collecting words and photos and compiling them together in something tangible far exceeds blogging in my opinion (I know many people my age would disagree), and it feels like something that's truly of my own creation."  Zines in the Archives: status as urban historical documents, preserve physical evidence of radical print culture  Open Stack Zine Collections: Barnard Zine Library, Sarah Lawrence College, Bowling Green State University, Brooklyn College

Anchor Archive Zine Subject ListSelecting Activism: Choices