Cruising the Library
Date
2019-02-01Author
Bennett, Charlie
Doshi, Ameet
Hagenmaier, Wendy
Rascoe, Fred
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Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 411. Features interview with Melissa Adler, professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She also author of the book, "Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge". Dr Adler discusses subject heading and classification systems in library catalogs, and labeling as a mechanism of control in libraries.