The power to name : locating the limits of subject representation in libraries /

The names we give things colour the ways we perceive them. Those in a position to name hold the power to construct others' perceptions and realities. This book looks at the pervasive naming of information that libraries undertake as a matter of course through representation of subjects. It exam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Olson, Hope A.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht, The Netherlands ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
Subjects:	Subject headings. Subject cataloging. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Naming is Power
2. Armies, Railroads and Procrustean Beds
3. Iterability of the Public and Efficiency
4. Authority to Name
5. ITE/Arating Women
6. Toward Eccentric Techniques.