Worth Noting: Editorials, Letters, Essays, an Interview, and Bibliography

by Sanford Berman

Overview

The topics of these 34 selections range from "Herrenvolk" terminology, fiction access, and subject headings for consumer health information to South African censorship, Idi Amin's repressions, and the Creationists' "hidden agenda." Also includes material on cataloging teenage literature, racism in children's books and an ALA-produced film (The Speaker), and reportage on the "intellectual freedom" scene in Greece, West Germany, and Soviet Union.

Reprinted from sources such as Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, Top of the News, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Technicalities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786493517
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	12/05/2013
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Bill Katz
Cataloging
Herrenvolk Language
Fiction Access: New Approaches
Fiction Access: (Continued)
A Bonnie Screw-Up
Where Have All the Moonies Gone?
Title Access: The Need, the Policy, and the Practice
Missing Titles
The Terrible Truth About Teenlit Cataloging
C’Mon Guys, Lighten Up!
Catalog Access to Consumer Health Information
Orwellian Postscript to the Proposed Subhead “—Health Hazards”
Thanks a Lot!
Indoor Flings
Indoor Flings (Continued)

Censorship/Human Rights
Notes from Europe
Letter from Stuttgart
Prexy Song
South African Censorship
IFLA and Racism
Palatnik/Trachtenberg Case
Uganda: Speak in Whispers, If at All
“The Speaker”: Not Recommended
Jake—And Library Issues of Selection
On Beyond Jake: A Call to Dialog
The Letter That Wasn’t
Another Letter That Wasn’t
Technology, Humanism, and Civil Liberties: A Review

Creationism
Not-So-Hidden Agenda
Gimme That Old Time Religion
“In the Beginning”: The Creationist Agenda
Religion and/or Science
Another Letter That Wasn’t/Gimme That Old Time Religion (Grand Finale)
No Comment

Alternative Perspectives: A Conversation with Sandy Berman, by Jim Dwyer
Bermaniana: A Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Wonderful”—Booklist; “a unique voice and style...always something fascinating to find”—Public Library Quarterly; “recommended”—Library & Information Science Annual; “Berman is someone American librarianship needs many more of”—Libraries & Culture; “valuable reference”—SRRT Newsletter; “a welcome addition...a compendium of writings...these essays are entertaining...thought provoking”—The Journal of Academic Librarianship; “entertaining and informative”—Wilson Library Bulletin; “librarian gadfly Sanford Berman speaks out against rchaic Lc Subject headings, inadequate cataloging of fiction, South African censorship, racist children’s books, creationists and other material”—American Libraries; “he really believes what he says, and he says it eloquently”—Reference Quarterly.

From the Publisher

recommended

Library & Information Science Annual

a unique voice and style...always something fascinating to find

Public Library Quarterly

Wonderful

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