Table of Contents

Preface: What Does “Radical Cataloging” Mean, Anyway?       1
K. R. ROBERTO
Introduction: Cataloging Reform, LC, and Me      5
SANFORD BERMAN

I. CATALOGING IN CONTEXT
The Existential Crisis of a Cataloger      13
BETH THORNTON
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access      18
MATT JOHNSON
Cataloging in Non-Roman Scripts: From Radical to Mainstream Practice      28
BELLA HASS WEINBERG
Ubiquitous Cataloging      40
BRADLEY DILGER and WILLIAM THOMPSON
The Genre Jungle: Organizing Pop Music Recordings      53
MICHAEL SUMMERS
Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules: Metadata Cataloging for Digital
Library Projects      69
JEN WOLFE
This Subfield Kills Fascists: A Highly Selective, Slightly Irreverent Trip Down Radical Cataloging Literature Lane      75
BRIAN HASENSTAB

II. WE CRITICIZE BECAUSE WE CARE
Ranganathan’s Forgotten Law: Save the Time of the Cataloger      83
JENNIFER YOUNG
OCLC: A Review      85
JEFFREY BEALL
Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming      94
TATIANA DE LA TIERRA
Swine—Juvenile Literature?: Good Cataloging vs. Good Public Service      103
JOHN SANDSTROM
Cults, New Religious Movements, and Bias in LC Subject Headings      106
TRACY NECTOUX
(The English Word) That Dares Not Seek Its Name      110
CAROL REID
Folk Art Terminology Revisited: Why It (Still) Matters      112
JOAN M. BENEDETTI
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic: A Drowning Cataloger’s Call to Stop Churning the Subject Headings      126
CHRISTOPHER H. WALKER
Who Moved My Pinakes? Cataloging and Change      141
TINA GROSS
The End of Prohibition      148
CAROL REID
North American Indian Personal Names in National Bibliographies      150
FRANK EXNER, LITTLE BEAR
Useful Cataloging      165
CHRIS DODGE
What Is Going on at the Library of Congress?      170
THOMAS MANN

III. INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
Don’t Class Me in Antiquities! Giving Voice to Native American Materials      189
KELLY WEBSTER and ANN DOYLE
Teaching the Radical Catalog      198
EMILY DRABINSKI
Browsing Bergman, Finding Fellini, Cataloging Kurosawa: Alternative Approaches to Cataloging Foreign Language Films in Academic Libraries      206
MICHELLE EMANUEL and SUSANNAH BENEDETTI
User-Centered Serials Cataloging      214
WENDY BAIA
“Why Isn’t My Book on the Shelf?” and Other Mysteries of the Library      228
ROBIN FAY
AACR2—Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College      231
JENNA FREEDMAN
CE-MARC: The Educator’s Library “Receipt”      241
TOM ADAMICH
Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag      246
JENNIFER ERICA SWEDA
Drawing Reference Librarians into the Fold      251
DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
MARC: It’s Not Just for Cataloging Anymore      255
DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
“Respect My Authoritah”: Eric Cartman and Enhanced Subject Access      265
DANIEL CANNCASCIATO
High-Speed Cataloging Without Sacrificing Subject Access or Authority
Control: A Case Study      269
CARRIE PRESTON
Monographic Collections Structure and Layout Revisions: Or, How to
Tweak LC Call Numbers for the Good of Your Users      277
BRIAN R. THOMPSON
Cataloging Heresy      291
A. ARRO SMITH
Talkin’ the Cataloging Blues: The Poetry of Albert Huffstickler      300
SYLVIA MANNING

About the Contributors      305
Index      309