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Expand, Humanize, Simplify : An Interview With Sandy Berman, Tina Gross, Sandy Berman

Library Faculty Publications

In this interview, Sanford (“Sandy”) Berman discusses his career and his efforts to promote responsive, user-friendly cataloging practices over uncritical deference to prevailing standards. Topics covered include his work at Hennepin County Library, his thoughts on the campaign to change the subject heading “Illegal aliens,” his ongoing practice of proposing new Library of Congress Subject Headings, and his relationship with the Library of Congress.

Timeline Of “Illegal Aliens” Subject Heading Change Petition, Jill Baron, Tina Gross, Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares

Library Faculty Publications

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Who Moved My Pinakes? : Cataloging And Change, Tina Gross

Library Faculty Publications

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Los Encabezamientos De Materia En Español Y La Lista Sears: Una Historia Interamericana, Tina Gross

Library Faculty Publications

Since its first appearance in 1923, the Sears List of Subject Headings has sought to provide small and medium-sized libraries with an affordable list of subject headings of suitable size and scope. As one of two major subject headings systems in use in the United States, it has been looked to as a resource by librarians who have sought to translate or adapt an existing list of subject headings in order to create systems of Spanish-language subject headings.

Of the handful of lists of subject headings developed in Latin America in the first half of the 20th century, two have …