Chaverim, As I posted before, I am in the MLIS program at UW Milwaukee and am working on a paper for an Intellectual Freedom seminar and am very interested in how Holocaust denial materials are cataloged. I see there was quite a bit of literature on this in the 80's and 90's but I have not been able to find much in the way of recent publications. I read in a San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage article from July of 2001 that the CA. Library Association was involved in a campaign to persuade the Library of Congress to more correctly utilize catalog terminology. I see that the efforts were successful, but I haven't been able to find out much after this date.
I see that the DDC in the 22nd edition, 2003 added 940.531 818 Holocaust Denial and the LC has a number of categories under D 804.35 and 804.355 in the 2001 edition. If any of you could address the following questions it would be very helpful: 1)How did this change in the library standards come about? 2)What has the reaction been to the revised call numbers? 3)How widely are they being used? 4)Have the deniers themselves had any reaction to this? Thank you so much for your insights and reactions! Ruth Bryskier U Wisconsin, Milwaukee Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
