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Author:   Sanford Berman
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780786478224

ISBN 10:   0786478225
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 August 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword by Maurice J. Freedman  1 Introduction (Counterpoise Interview with Kristin Hoyer, 2005)  10 Why Catalog? delete(U*L 116, 2000)  19 Must “The Poor” Always Be Among Us? delete(U*L 117, 2000)  21 The Top Censored Library Stories of 1998–2000 delete(U*L 118, 2001)  27 Updates and Additions delete(U*L 119, 2001)  31 Updates and Additions delete(U*L 120, 2001)  35 No More Shushing: Library Staff and Users Speak (Part 1) delete(U*L 121, 2001)  42 Harry Potter Imperiled, Keyword Searching as Panacea, Robin Hood’s Noble Liege, and Other Foolishness delete(U*L 124, 2002)  46 “Not in My Library!” delete(U*L 125, 2002)  52 Updates and Additions delete(U*L 127, 2003)  57 Cuba Libre! delete(U*L 128, 2003)  62 No More Shushing: Library Staff and Users Speak (Part 2), More on Cuba delete(U*L 129, 2003)  65 King County Responds, “Banned Books Week” Deconstructed, Cataloging Blues at LAPL, Loompanics’ Mike Hoy on Censorship, Deep-Sixed Afghan Atrocity Film, Cuba Again delete(U*L 130, 2004)  71 Access Denied delete(U*L 133, 2004)  77 Squelched Letters, More Access Denied delete(U*L 134, 2005)  81 Fighting the USA PATRIOT Act, Updates and Additions delete(U*L 135, 2005)  86 UCLA Cross-Refs, AACR3, Library Openness delete(U*L 136, 2005)  89 Cataloging Zines and Widgets delete(U*L 137, 2005)  92 Questions delete(U*L 138, 2006)  95 “Genocide” or Merely “Massacres”?—The Politics of Subject Cataloging delete(U*L 139, 2006)  98 Darfur Revisited, GLBT Access Denied delete(U*L 140, 2006)  101 LC Subject Cataloging (Part 1) delete(U*L 143, 2007)  103 LC Subject Cataloging (Part 2) delete(U*L 142, 2007)  105 LC Subject Cataloging (Postscript), Self-Censorship delete(U*L 143, 2007)  108 Obsessions delete(U*L 144, 2007)  111 Huh?, Fines and Fees, Self-Censorship (Continued) delete(U*L 145, 2007)  114 “Controversial” Cataloging delete(U*L 146, 2008)  117 Flawed Indexing, Erotica Selection, Subject Heading Currency, Undercataloging delete(U*L 147, 2008)  121 Darfur Redux, LC Cataloging Rescue, Subject Heading Currency (U*L 148, 2008)  124 One Book, Many Missed Opportunities, or Why Cataloging Matters (When It’s Done Right) delete(U*L 149, 2008)  127 Cats, Cataloging, Fines, and BBW (Banned Books Week) delete(U*L 150, 2009)  131 More Classism in the Stacks delete(U*L 151, 2009)  134 Cataloging Stink, Truth in Materials Selection, CEO Pay delete(U*L 152, 2009)  138 Liberated Foreword, Unrequited LC Letters delete(U*L 153, 2009)  141 Nation Gets It Wrong, More Unrequited LC Letters, LCSH Currency delete(U*L 154, 2010)  144 More (Attempted) LCSH Input, Geopolitics Versus Historical Truth delete(U*L 155, 2010)  147 LCSH Currency (Continued), Libraries and Politics, Retiring the R-Word, Celeste West Tribute delete(U*L 156, 2010)  151 The Kids Are Not All Right delete(U*L 157, 2010)  154 Remembrance of Things Past, Interview Excerpts delete(U*L 158, 2011)  157 More Interview Excerpts, Atheist Deficit, What Rosa Said delete(U*L 159, 2011)  161 No to Government Secrecy and Repression! delete(U*L 160, 2011)  165 Word Peeves, “Content-Enriched Metadata,” No “Sexting” Allowed (U*L 161, 2011)  168 Really Banned Books, Another Word Peeve, Clint’s Fantasy, OWS Library Trashed, PFC Manning’s Gift delete(U*L 162, 2012)  171 Post Office Crisis, LC Letters delete(U*L 163, 2012)  175 Another Real Banning, the Trashing of Both Hypatia and Her Library, Not-So-Funny Cataloging delete(U*L 164, 2012)  178 Laureates Support PFC Manning, Self-Censorship Affirmed, J’Accuse LC of Untimeliness and Sloth, Let’s Hear It for Robin Hood! delete(U*L 166, 2013)  182 Index  187

Reviews

“McFarland & Company has done a valuable service for librarianship and academia by bringing Berman’s work to a larger audience than that of The Unabashed Librarian readership”—Journal of Information Ethics; “recommended...essential”—Australian Library Journal; “fascinating”—Canadian Library Association; “of value...excellent”—ARBA; “Berman’s incredible, lifelong commitment to people-oriented librarianship shines through every page”—The Moral Atheist; “fascinating”—Feliciter; “In a world longing for heroes, let’s pay tribute to Sandy”—Bill Katz (1988); “Like a modern-day Diogenes, Sandy seeks honest librarians and where he does not find them, calls them to task. Good thing his humor is as great as his outrage at the shoddy, the biased, the incomprehensible”—James P. Danky, coeditor (with Sandy), Alternative Library Literature, 1982–2001; “The indefatigable Sandy is, right now, campaigning for LC to add the subject headings stop-and-frisk, wage theft, and drone warfare”—Tina Gross, Minnesota librarian, writer and activist; “Sandy Berman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers in the library field. Anything he writes—I want to read!”—Patricia Glass Schuman, cofounder Neal-Schuman, former ALA president; “Known as an advocate for the disadvantaged, the minority, the isolated, Sandy is much more—faithful custodian of the intellectual commons that the public library must be if our democracy is to survive”—James Chaffee, San Francisco library advocate; “Sandy has the passion of a revolutionary. His righteous indignation is all the more endearing for the pomposity of his targets”—James V. Carmichael, Jr., LIS professor, UNC Greensboro; “Sandy Berman is fire for the mind. Along with heat and light, he brings unchained intelligence and a passion for justice. He’s readable, he’s revolutionary, and, by golly, he’s right!”—Rosalie Maggio, How to Say It author; “Sandy Berman is the biggest mensch in librarianship. He is fiercely brilliant and critical, but just as strongly warm and generous”—Jenna Freedman, research & zine librarian, Barnard; “Indulge yourself in a marathon binge. Where else are you going to find cover-to-cover unadulterated library opinion? Just askin’!”—Toni Samek, LIS professor, University of Alberta; “For more than half a century, Sandy Berman has radicalized librarianship, improved cataloging, admonished the Library of Congress, stimulated peers, and published hundreds of scholarly works. Thank goodness!”—Robert Hauptman, editor, Journal of Information Ethics; “We live in difficult times, but Sandy’s optimism and faith gives us all hope for the future of libraries”—Earl Lee, technical services, Pittsburg State University; “Our leading missionary, revolutionary, irritant and inspiration”—Eric Moon (1993).

McFarland & Company has done a valuable service for librarianship and academia by bringing Berman's work to a larger audience than that of <i>The Unabashed Librarian</i> readership --<i>Journal of Information Ethics</i>; recommended...essential --<i>Australian Library Journal</i>; fascinating --<i>Canadian Library Association</i>; of value...excellent --<i>ARBA</i>; Berman's incredible, lifelong commitment to people-oriented librarianship shines through every page --<i>The Moral Atheist</i>; fascinating --<i>Feliciter</i>; In a world longing for heroes, let's pay tribute to Sandy --Bill Katz (1988); Like a modern-day Diogenes, Sandy seeks honest librarians and where he does not find them, calls them to task. Good thing his humor is as great as his outrage at the shoddy, the biased, the incomprehensible --James P. Danky, coeditor (with Sandy), <i>Alternative Library Literature, 1982-2001</i>; The indefatigable Sandy is, right now, campaigning for LC to add the subject headings stop-and-frisk, wage theft, and drone warfare --Tina Gross, Minnesota librarian, writer and activist; Sandy Berman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers in the library field. Anything he writes--I want to read! --Patricia Glass Schuman, cofounder Neal-Schuman, former ALA president; Known as an advocate for the disadvantaged, the minority, the isolated, Sandy is much more--faithful custodian of the intellectual commons that the public library must be if our democracy is to survive --James Chaffee, San Francisco library advocate; Sandy has the passion of a revolutionary. His righteous indignation is all the more endearing for the pomposity of his targets --James V. Carmichael, Jr., LIS professor, UNC Greensboro; Sandy Berman is fire for the mind. Along with heat and light, he brings unchained intelligence and a passion for justice. He's readable, he's revolutionary, and, by golly, he's right! --Rosalie Maggio, How to Say It author; Sandy Berman is the biggest mensch in librarianship. He is fiercely brilliant and critical, but just as strongly warm and generous --Jenna Freedman, research & zine librarian, Barnard; Indulge yourself in a marathon binge. Where else are you going to find cover-to-cover unadulterated library opinion? Just askin'! --Toni Samek, LIS professor, University of Alberta; For more than half a century, Sandy Berman has radicalized librarianship, improved cataloging, admonished the Library of Congress, stimulated peers, and published hundreds of scholarly works. Thank goodness! --Robert Hauptman, editor, <i>Journal of Information Ethics</i>; We live in difficult times, but Sandy's optimism and faith gives us all hope for the future of libraries --Earl Lee, technical services, Pittsburg State University; Our leading missionary, revolutionary, irritant and inspiration --Eric Moon (1993).

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Famed librarian Sanford Berman as written several books and numerous shorter works (“provocative”—Library Journal. He is the recipient of an American Library Association Honorary Membership (2004) and the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award (1996), and was named Minnesota Librarian of the Year in 1977.

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