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“A peculiar satisfaction”: Queer Subjects and Settler Colonialism in Library Cataloging
June 4, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Primarily historical, this presentation will focus on Thomas Jefferson’s role in establishing the Library of Congress, as well as his personal collection and classification, purchased by the Library of Congress after the War of 1812.
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Melissa Adler is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her book, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham University Press, April 2017), is a study of the history of sexuality through the lens of Library of Congress classifications and categories.