Library Juice interview with LoC’s Barbara Tillett
I get mail from Sandy Berman almost once a week. In envelopes with interesting stamps and adorned with rubber stamped images, he sends a pile of photocopied news articles, printed out web pages and...
View Article“authorities” and strap-on sex
On my fridge I have a photocopy of a letter that Sandy Berman sent to the Library of Congress this August suggesting that they establish dildoes as a LCSH. I got many fascinating photocopies along with...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Subject Heading Suggestion Blog-a-Thon
Between now and Sunday, April 27, Radical Reference invites you to suggest subject headings and/or cross-references which will then be compiled and sent to the Library of Congress. You can either...
View Articleplease send Sandy Berman a get well card
Jenna Freedman has information about the serious car accident Sandy Berman was in. Please send him a get well card, or if you’re not postally-enabled, leave a comment for him on Jenna’s blog.
View Articlelibrarians’ search for neutrality a precursor to debate over Google rankings
“The idea that search engines can, or should, be neutral can be traced back to a movement of leftist librarians in the 1970s. Led by Sanford Berman, one of the first to bring social rebellion into the...
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