Not in my library! : Berman's bag columns from the Unabashed librarian, 2001-2013 /

Not in my library! : Berman's bag columns from the Unabashed librarian, 2001-2013 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Sanford, 1933-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:
Library science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Library science > Political aspects.
Libraries and society.
Censorship.
Libraries > Censorship.
Cataloging.
Subject cataloging.
Subject headings, Library of Congress.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (Counterpoise interview with Kristin Hoyer, 2005)
  • Why catalog? (u*l 116, 2000)
  • Must "the poor" always be among us? (u*l 117, 2000)
  • The top censored library stories of 1998-2000 (u*l 118, 2001)
  • Updates and additions (u*l 119, 2001)
  • Updates and additions (u*l 120, 2001)
  • No more shushing : library staff and users speak (part 1) (u*l 121, 2001)
  • Harry Potter imperiled, keyword searching as panacea, Robin Hood's noble liege, and other foolishness (u*l 124, 2002)
  • "Not in my library!" (u*l 125, 2002)
  • Updates and additions (u*l 127, 2003)
  • Cuba libre! (u*l 128, 2003)
  • No more shushing : library staff and users speak (part 2), more on Cuba (u*l 129, 2003)
  • King County responds, "Banned books week" deconstructed, cataloging blues at LAPL, Loompanics' Mike Hoy on censorship, deep-sixed Afghan atrocity film, Cuba again (u*l 130, 2004)
  • Access denied (u*l 133, 2004)
  • Squelched letters, more access denied (u*l 134, 2005)
  • Fighting the USA Patriot Act, updates and additions (u*l 135, 2005)
  • UCLA cross-refs, AACR3, library openness (u*l 136, 2005)
  • Cataloging zines and widgets (u*l 137, 2005)
  • Questions (u*l 138, 2006)
  • "Genocide" or merely "massacres"? : the politics of subject cataloging (u*l 139, 2006)
  • Darfur revisited, GLBT access denied (u*l 140, 2006)
  • Subject cataloging (part 1) (u*l 143, 2007)
  • Subject cataloging (part 2) (u*l 142, 2007)
  • Subject cataloging (postscript), self-censorship (u*l 143, 2007)
  • Obsessions (u*l 144, 2007)
  • Huh?, fines and fees, self-censorship (continued) (u*l 145, 2007)
  • "Controversial" cataloging (u*l 146, 2008)
  • Flawed indexing, erotica selection, subject heading currency, undercataloging (u*l 147, 2008)
  • Darfur redux, LC cataloging rescue, subject heading currency (u*l 148, 2008)
  • Book, many missed opportunities, or why cataloging matters (when it's done right) (u*l 149, 2008)
  • Cats, cataloging, fines, and BBW (Banned books week) (u*l 150, 2009)
  • More classism in the stacks (u*l 151, 2009)
  • Cataloging stink, truth in materials selection, CEO pay (u*l 152, 2009)
  • Liberated foreword, unrequited LC letters (u*l 153, 2009)
  • Nation gets it wrong, more unrequited LC letters, LCSH currency (u*l 154, 2010)
  • More (attempted) LCSH input, geopolitics versus historical truth (u*l 155, 2010)
  • LCSH currency (continued), libraries and politics, retiring the r-word, Celeste West tribute (u*l 156, 2010)
  • The kids are not all right (u*l 157, 2010)
  • Remembrance of things past, interview excerpts (u*l 158, 2011)
  • More interview excerpts, atheist deficit, what Rosa said (u*l 159, 2011)
  • No to government secrecy and repression! (u*l 160, 2011)
  • Word peeves, "content-enriched metadata," no "sexting" allowed (u*l 161, 2011)
  • Really banned books, another word peeve, Clint's fantasy, OWS library trashed, PFC Manning's gift (u*l 162, 2012)
  • Post office crisis, LC letters (u*l 163, 2012)
  • Another real banning, the trashing of both Hypatia and her library, not-so-funny cataloging (u*l 164, 2012)
  • Laureates support PFC Manning, self-censorship affirmed, J'accuse LC of untimeliness and sloth, let's hear it for Robin Hood! (u*l 166, 2013).