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Author Adler, Melissa, author.

Title Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge / Melissa Adler.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (175 pages)
Language Text in English.
Contents Cover; CRUISING THE LIBRARY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged; 1. Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias"; 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection; 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc.; 4. Aberrations in the Catalog; 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies; Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library; Acknowledgments; Notes; General Index; Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings; Index to Library of Congress Classifications.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Delta Collection (Library of Congress) -- History.
Delta Collection (Library of Congress)
Subject cataloging -- Social aspects -- United States.
Subject headings, Library of Congress -- Evaluation.
Classification, Library of Congress -- Evaluation.
Subject headings -- Sexual minorities.
Classification -- Books -- Minorities.
Social sciences -- Terminology.
Information organization -- Philosophy.
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Library & Information Science -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Subject headings -- Sexual minorities
Classification -- Books -- Minorities
Social sciences
Subject headings, Library of Congress -- Evaluation
United States
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Other Form: Print version: Adler, Melissa. Cruising the Library. New York : Fordham University Press, 2017 9780823276356 082327635X (DLC) 2016051405 (OCoLC)960836480
ISBN 9780823276370 (electronic bk.)
0823276376 (electronic bk.)
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