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Classifying the Feminist Library collection

Classifying the Feminist Library collection. Anne Welsh Lecturer in Library and Information Studies University College London T TRAINING FOR ALL SCHEME. Slides available from: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/anne-welsh/training/.

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Classifying the Feminist Library collection

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  1. Classifying the Feminist Library collection Anne Welsh Lecturer in Library and Information Studies University College London T TRAINING FOR ALL SCHEME Slides available from: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/anne-welsh/training/

  2. There are official searchers, inquisitors ... they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them ... sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it ...Obviously, no one expects to discover anything. ~ Jorge Luis Borges. The Library of Babel.

  3. Ranganathan’s Laws 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader his book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. The library is a growing organism.

  4. Cataloguing = Description + Access + Organization • Descriptive Cataloguing • Description (describing the item we have in front of us) • Access (providing access / entry points to assist in searching) • Subject Cataloguing • Classification (applying a classification scheme so that all items on the same subject are collocated on a browsable shelf) • Indexing (assigning subject headings to assist in searching)

  5. Cutter’s Objects 1. To enable a person to find a book of which either (A) the author (B) the title (C) the subject is known. 2. To show what the library has (D) by a given author (E) on a given subject (F) in a given kind of literature 3. To assist in the choice of a book (G) as to its edition (bibliographically) (H) as to its character (literary or topical)

  6. Cutter’s Means • Author-entry with the necessary references (for A and D) • Title-entry or title-reference (for B) • Subject-entry, cross-references, and classed subject-table (for C and E) • Form-entry and language-entry (for F) • Giving edition and imprint, with notes where necessary (for G) • Notes (for H)

  7. Classification The systematic arrangement by subject of books and other materials on shelves or of catalogue and index entries in the manner that is most useful to those who read or who seek a definite piece of information. ~ Arthur Maltby. Sayers’ Manual of Classification for Librarians.

  8. Standards, formats, schemes • Descriptive Cataloguing • AACR2 (soon to become RDA) (international cataloguing standard) • MARC 21 (international format for data exchange) • Subject Cataloguing • Feminist Library Classification Scheme • Feminist Library Subject Headings • General categories and Coloured dots

  9. Why can’t we ? Anything that doesn’t fall within a white, male, Anglo, able-bodied, straight, Eurocentric, Cartesian mainstream is likely to be difficult for users to find if only conventional cataloguing is employed ~ Olson, 1998

  10. Feminist Library • Founded 1975 • Classification Scheme created 1978 • Developed until Library lost employees • Collection strength is WLM in the 1970s-80s; classification reflects this.

  11. Visualising the Feminist Library Classification (via Wordle)

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