tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post8736609253622242995..comments2023-08-09T03:21:13.354-05:00Comments on Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant: Intersection in the BookstoreDw3t-Hthrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post-64050584710107060952007-11-29T09:55:00.000-05:002007-11-29T09:55:00.000-05:00It's funny. Tyler at Pandemonium was asking about...It's funny. Tyler at Pandemonium was asking about this similarly the other day, even though he has a much more limited bookstore than your traditional used bookstore. Can you create subsections for horror and fantasy vs. sci fi? What happens when a particular author falls into all those fields? Do you shelve a copy of each intersectional book in each place it might work? But then you have 5 copies of the same book...Peeeeka-chuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289661754866293534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post-76151234338655721362007-11-29T00:25:00.000-05:002007-11-29T00:25:00.000-05:00Yeah, ghettoizing people of color in bookstores ha...Yeah, ghettoizing people of color in bookstores has a long tradition. Also interesting is the way libraries catalog books. I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject myself, but I did have the pleasure of meeting Sanford Berman, a librarian who spent a lifetime challenging the discriminatory cataloging practiced by the Library of Congress. <A HREF="http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/971/print7781.asp" REL="nofollow"><B>This</B></A> article talks about it.Ravenmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578771107514349258noreply@blogger.com