Jessamyn just turned me on to K.R. Roberto's new book, Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front. Go out and buy one for every librarian that you know. Really, do it now!!

(admission: I've now added Jenna's feed because I woulda known about the book earlier if I'd just read the Lower East Side Librarian!!)

Table of Contents

Preface: What Does “Radical Cataloging” Mean, Anyway? K. R. ROBERTO
Introduction: Cataloging Reform, LC, and Me. SANFORD BERMAN

I. CATALOGING IN CONTEXT
The Existential Crisis of a Cataloger. BETH THORNTON
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access. MATT JOHNSON
Cataloging in Non-Roman Scripts: From Radical to Mainstream Practice. BELLA HASS WEINBERG
Ubiquitous Cataloging. BRADLEY DILGER and WILLIAM THOMPSON
The Genre Jungle: Organizing Pop Music Recordings. MICHAEL SUMMERS
Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules: Metadata Cataloging for Digital Library Projects. JEN WOLFE
This Subfield Kills Fascists: A Highly Selective, Slightly Irreverent Trip Down Radical Cataloging Literature Lane. BRIAN HASENSTAB

II. WE CRITICIZE BECAUSE WE CARE
Ranganathan’s Forgotten Law: Save the Time of the Cataloger. JENNIFER YOUNG
OCLC: A Review. JEFFREY BEALL
Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming. TATIANA DE LA TIERRA
Swine—Juvenile Literature?: Good Cataloging vs. Good Public Service. JOHN SANDSTROM
Cults, New Religious Movements, and Bias in LC Subject Headings. TRACY NECTOUX
(The English Word) That Dares Not Seek Its Name. CAROL REID
Folk Art Terminology Revisited: Why It (Still) Matters. JOAN M. BENEDETTI
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic: A Drowning Cataloger’s Call to Stop Churning the Subject Headings. CHRISTOPHER H. WALKER
Who Moved My Pinakes? Cataloging and Change. TINA GROSS
The End of Prohibition. CAROL REID
North American Indian Personal Names in National Bibliographies. FRANK EXNER, LITTLE BEAR
Useful Cataloging. CHRIS DODGE
What Is Going on at the Library of Congress? THOMAS MANN

III. INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
Don’t Class Me in Antiquities! Giving Voice to Native American Materials. KELLY WEBSTER and ANN DOYLE
Teaching the Radical Catalog. EMILY DRABINSKI
Browsing Bergman, Finding Fellini, Cataloging Kurosawa: Alternative Approaches to Cataloging Foreign Language Films in Academic Libraries. MICHELLE EMANUEL and SUSANNAH BENEDETTI
User-Centered Serials Cataloging. WENDY BAIA
“Why Isn’t My Book on the Shelf?” and Other Mysteries of the Library. ROBIN FAY
AACR2—Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College. JENNA FREEDMAN
CE-MARC: The Educator’s Library “Receipt.” TOM ADAMICH
Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag. JENNIFER ERICA SWEDA
Drawing Reference Librarians into the Fold. DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
MARC: It’s Not Just for Cataloging Anymore. DANA M. CAUDLE and CECILIA M. SCHMITZ
“Respect My Authoritah”: Eric Cartman and Enhanced Subject Access. DANIEL CANNCASCIATO
High-Speed Cataloging Without Sacrificing Subject Access or Authority Control: A Case Study. CARRIE PRESTON
Monographic Collections Structure and Layout Revisions: Or, How to Tweak LC Call Numbers for the Good of Your Users. BRIAN R. THOMPSON
Cataloging Heresy. A. ARRO SMITH
Talkin’ the Cataloging Blues: The Poetry of Albert Huffstickler. SYLVIA MANNING