please boost! ! The Queer Metadata Collective is looking for feedback from #catalogers #metadata workers #critcat #critlib #archivists #dh #histsex folks on questions or dillemmas they have encountered while describing individuals/communities/items
Some hypotheticals from working groups:
Classification:
* Some classification systems separate books about gay, lesbian, bisexual (etc) groups into different areas of the library. Should local practices override that in order to group them together?
@brimwats
As a former Page, I have an opinion on the first one. If you're using a system, (eg Dewey,) but group stuff together outside of that categorization, clearly mark so everywhere. Something in the stack. A card where it should be, etc.
My public library had collections and it effed with everyone that knew DDS. Pretty much only the Pages knew where some stuff was.
@brimwats
Ours were supposed to model bookstores. We gave that up after most of the chain bookstores collapsed.
I still have the old diagram to show new Pages the Horrors That Were. :p
But yeah. To reiterate, (I feel like I didn't describe it well in the last post,) my suggestion is that if there are LGBT contemporary politics in 320.something, put a marker there where they can be found and put a marker at the start of where they are where they'd normally be.
bri watson 🌈🏳️🌈
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