Librarians grapple with the bias baked into classification systems.
Molly Schwartz:
One day in 2010, the Bard High School, Early College Library received a large order of books about the Civil Rights movement, which Jess deCourcy Hinds was excited about because--When this big order of Civil Rights books came in, she noticed they weren't classified under history in the 900s but under the 300s.
For most of the Dewey Decimal System's 145 years in use, Melvil Dewey has been celebrated as a kind of founding father of American librarianship.We're always searching for heroes and Dewey was an early library pioneer whose influence was very wide.Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil DeweyHe describes how Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal system in the early 1870s when he was a student at Amherst College.
They were both born into strict Protestant households in Upstate New York in 1851, and they both died in 1931. Dewey also had views that made him, if not an outright eugenicist, at least eugenics adjacent.He was certainly sympathetic with the ideas that the eugenicists put forth. He did not see Black people as equal to white people. He did not see Jewish people as equal to white people.
Can you believe that the Library of Congress would make a decision with a bunch of liberal students from Dartmouth University who sent a petition to them to say that this was a dehumanizing or an inflammatory term? To make that decision on political correctness to change something that has been in the lexicon there at our Library of Congress since back in the early 1900s is just unbelievable to me.
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