Status Updates From Radical Cataloging: Essays ...

I just read theq table of contents and my heart is already racing. I am such a huge effing nerd it is embarrassing.

I admire that Sanford Berman is still so passionate about subject heading reform, even after retirement. And am surprised that after all this time, he still has to basically be a pest to get people with authority to listen to him about what often seems like commonsense changes.

And now I know what a pinake is: a tray filled with wax which was written on with a stylus

Discussing searching for the history of Black vs White women, there are headings for Black women but... "While we might wish that LC acknowledged White as a racial category and marker for domination, it does not. LC is rooted in historical structures of White supremacy; as such, the catalog presumes White to be the normative term."