Searching for Paumanok: A Study of Library of Congress Authorities and Classifications for Indigenous Long Island, New York

Nyitray, Kristen J.; Reijerkerk, Dana

doi:10.1080/01639374.2021.1929627

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“…Some such as Rawson (2009;2018), Nichols and Cortez (2013), and Nowak and Mitchell (2016), have suggested the creation of alternative vocabularies, ontologies, and taxonomies, respectively, to address these problems. For queer topics, the Homosaurus has developed as an alternative (van der Wel and Greenblatt 2013;Watson, Noland, and Billey 2021;Zwaaf 2020;Homosaurus et al 2020), and a variety of proposals are developing for Indigenous ones (Nyitray and Reijerkerk 2021;Cherry and Mukunda 2015;Swanson 2015;Bosum and Dunne 2017).…”

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100 Years of marginalization

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Many knowledge organization researchers and cultural heritage practitioners authors have illustrated the fallacies, inconsistencies, failures, mistakes, and incorrect information contained in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). However, LCSH and its associated apparatus continues to be the dominant knowledge organization system in academic libraries (and increasingly, archives). This panel brings together individuals involved in a pair of connected projects aimed at documenting the harm and/or inaccuracies caused by LCSH by engaging in “ethical outreach” to creators and authors; by developing alternative “radical” or “critical” practices; and by evaluating the results of those practices.

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