Critical cataloging #critcat explores ethical issues relating to #cataloging & classifications. Every month, I collect news about #critcat at the Cataloging Lab. 📚
Here's the latest updates, articles, webinars, policy changes, and more: cataloginglab.org/2025/01/01/c...
Here's the latest updates, articles, webinars, policy changes, and more: cataloginglab.org/2025/01/01/c...
Critcatenate: #critcat in December 2024 – Cataloging Lab
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January 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Critical cataloging #critcat explores ethical issues relating to #cataloging & classifications. Every month, I collect news about #critcat at the Cataloging Lab. 📚
Here's the latest updates, articles, webinars, policy changes, and more: cataloginglab.org/2025/01/01/c...
Here's the latest updates, articles, webinars, policy changes, and more: cataloginglab.org/2025/01/01/c...
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat
Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚
Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚
Critcatenate: #critcat in November 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat
Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚
Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚
New issue of Critcatenate now available: cataloginglab.org/2025/09/30/c... If you're interested in critical cataloging, here's a roundup of news & new resources. 📚 #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in July–September 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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October 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available: cataloginglab.org/2025/09/30/c... If you're interested in critical cataloging, here's a roundup of news & new resources. 📚 #critcat
New issue of Critcatenate now available, if you're into #critcat. cataloginglab.org/2024/12/01/c...
Critcatenate: #critcat in November 2024 – Cataloging Lab
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December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available, if you're into #critcat. cataloginglab.org/2024/12/01/c...
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring a bunch of news, webinars, blog posts, and more about critical #cataloging in May 2025. cataloginglab.org/2025/05/31/c... #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in May 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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June 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring a bunch of news, webinars, blog posts, and more about critical #cataloging in May 2025. cataloginglab.org/2025/05/31/c... #critcat
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring updates about what's happening in the world of inclusive/critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/01/31/c... #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in January 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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January 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring updates about what's happening in the world of inclusive/critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/01/31/c... #critcat
New issue of Critcatenate now available featuring all the critical #cataloging news I could find this month. 📚 come for the yelling about bad #LCSH decisions, consider volunteering for one of the many committee opportunities! cataloginglab.org/2025/03/31/c... #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in March 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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March 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available featuring all the critical #cataloging news I could find this month. 📚 come for the yelling about bad #LCSH decisions, consider volunteering for one of the many committee opportunities! cataloginglab.org/2025/03/31/c... #critcat
New issue of Critcatenate now available for those interested in critical approaches to metadata in libraries & archives. Lots of events coming up! cataloginglab.org/2025/02/28/c... 📚 #critcat
Critcatenate: #critcat in February 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available for those interested in critical approaches to metadata in libraries & archives. Lots of events coming up! cataloginglab.org/2025/02/28/c... 📚 #critcat
A new memorandum from the Dept of Defense listing specific subject headings to be used within military libraries to flag books with "divisive content." #LCSH #critcat 📚 media.defense.gov/2025/May/09/...
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May 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A new memorandum from the Dept of Defense listing specific subject headings to be used within military libraries to flag books with "divisive content." #LCSH #critcat 📚 media.defense.gov/2025/May/09/...
Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
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February 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
A bunch of catalogers on the PCC list not understanding the inherent conservatism of LC administration. Sure, they technically *could* interpret a rule in a way which would go against an executive order, but they're definitely not going to.
Don't look to LC for courage, library friends. #critcat 📚
Don't look to LC for courage, library friends. #critcat 📚
February 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A bunch of catalogers on the PCC list not understanding the inherent conservatism of LC administration. Sure, they technically *could* interpret a rule in a way which would go against an executive order, but they're definitely not going to.
Don't look to LC for courage, library friends. #critcat 📚
Don't look to LC for courage, library friends. #critcat 📚
For the Violet Fox superfans out there (lol): I was interviewed on William Blueher's #cataloging podcast Catapod. We talked about #critcat, zine librarianship, why librarians should edit Wikipedia, and more. 📚 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Violet B. Fox
Podcast Episode · Catapod · 06/03/2025 · 49m
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June 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For the Violet Fox superfans out there (lol): I was interviewed on William Blueher's #cataloging podcast Catapod. We talked about #critcat, zine librarianship, why librarians should edit Wikipedia, and more. 📚 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring #critcat news and resources from April 2025. cataloginglab.org/2025/04/30/c... 📚 #cataloging
Critcatenate: #critcat in April 2025 – Cataloging Lab
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May 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring #critcat news and resources from April 2025. cataloginglab.org/2025/04/30/c... 📚 #cataloging
Really looking forward to this book launch event tonight. More than ever, we need to invest in alternatives to systems controlled by the U.S. government. Get inspired by those who maintain their own systems! 📚 #critcat
Coming up this week!
Editors Amanda Belantara ( @abelantara.bsky.social ) and Emily Drabinski ( @edrabinski.bsky.social ) together with series editor Violet Fox ( @violetbfox.bsky.social ) discuss this exciting new book!
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Editors Amanda Belantara ( @abelantara.bsky.social ) and Emily Drabinski ( @edrabinski.bsky.social ) together with series editor Violet Fox ( @violetbfox.bsky.social ) discuss this exciting new book!
litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
May 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Really looking forward to this book launch event tonight. More than ever, we need to invest in alternatives to systems controlled by the U.S. government. Get inspired by those who maintain their own systems! 📚 #critcat
Treshani Perera presenting her poster session about the libraries who created Harmful Language Statements—and discussing how many libraries have now disappeared those statements from their website. 👀
Keep an eye out for her research! cdmcd.co/5n5yZ8 📚 #ALAAC25 #critcat
Keep an eye out for her research! cdmcd.co/5n5yZ8 📚 #ALAAC25 #critcat
June 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Treshani Perera presenting her poster session about the libraries who created Harmful Language Statements—and discussing how many libraries have now disappeared those statements from their website. 👀
Keep an eye out for her research! cdmcd.co/5n5yZ8 📚 #ALAAC25 #critcat
Keep an eye out for her research! cdmcd.co/5n5yZ8 📚 #ALAAC25 #critcat
Two years of work, nearly 1000 people, and 6394 emails later: Best Practices for Queer Metadata is live!
zenodo.org/records/1258...
zenodo.org/records/1258...
Best Practices for Queer Metadata
This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted in...
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June 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
This free webinar is next Tuesday April 14th. There'll be ASL interpreters available. It'll be recorded, so if you can't join us, feel free to sign up and you'll get a link to the recording. 1500 people registered so far lol. 📚 #critcat news.library.fresnostate.edu/2026/02/23/f...
Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat
April 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This free webinar is next Tuesday April 14th. There'll be ASL interpreters available. It'll be recorded, so if you can't join us, feel free to sign up and you'll get a link to the recording. 1500 people registered so far lol. 📚 #critcat news.library.fresnostate.edu/2026/02/23/f...
The courage will be shown by individual libraries who will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" and "Mount Denali" in our catalogs.
Just like when LC cowardly revised the #LCSH to "Illegal immigration" in 2021, the onus will be on every library *except* LC to do the right thing. #critcat
Just like when LC cowardly revised the #LCSH to "Illegal immigration" in 2021, the onus will be on every library *except* LC to do the right thing. #critcat
February 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
January 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC
October 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I don't actually know whether non-US librarians are invited to comment on this or not because these procedures are obscure as flip to me, but I've written in. #critcat 📚
Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su...
Send feedback to listcomments@loc.gov by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes
Send feedback to listcomments@loc.gov by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
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February 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I don't actually know whether non-US librarians are invited to comment on this or not because these procedures are obscure as flip to me, but I've written in. #critcat 📚
Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚
March 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I love it when people reference @violetbfox.bsky.social & the impressive critcat work she's done in a random conference panel.
April 30, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I love it when people reference @violetbfox.bsky.social & the impressive critcat work she's done in a random conference panel.
there is *definitely* a high that comes from presenting to over 1k attendees + some additional large # of livestream attendees (like 3k registrees?) and then a resultant crash from over-socializing! feeling very grateful for my brilliant co-presenter @cmisorski.bsky.social #academicchatter #critcat
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
there is *definitely* a high that comes from presenting to over 1k attendees + some additional large # of livestream attendees (like 3k registrees?) and then a resultant crash from over-socializing! feeling very grateful for my brilliant co-presenter @cmisorski.bsky.social #academicchatter #critcat