14. Bowman, “Diversity Concerns Linger at the Library of Congress.”
15. Kathy Sawyer, “Library’s Bias Complaints Unsolved Despite Court Order,” Washington Post, March 5, 1979.
16. “Barbara Ringer, 1973–1980,” US Copyright Office.
17. “Library of Congress Is Found to Discriminate against Women,” Washington Post, August 10, 1972; Barbara A. Ringer, Plaintiff, v. L. Quincy Mumford, Individually and as Librarian of Congress, et al., Defendants, Civ. A. No. 2074-72, US District Court, DC, February 28, 1973.
18. Another union at LC, the AFCSME Local 2477 for non-professional employees, had formed sometime previously according to the LC Bulletin.
19. “Leaflet, Anyone!?&%,” Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 4 (June 1977).
20. “Guild News Distribution Comes in From the Cold!” The Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 8 (December 1977).
21. “Let Them Read Cake Recipes!” The Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 2, no. 6 (September 1977).
22. “Announcements,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, November 5, 1976.
23. “Council 26 Sponsors Vietnamese Family,” Local News, A News-Symposium of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 5, no. 2 (Summer 1980).
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1. Email from Thompson Yee to the author, October 26, 2018.
2. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA.
3. “About Library of Congress Authorities,” Library of Congress (website), https://authorities.loc.gov/help/contents.htm.
4. Philip Hider and Ross Harvey, Organising Knowledge in a Global Society: Principles and Practices in Libraries and Information Centres (San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2008), p. 140.
5. Melissa Adler, “For SEXUAL PERVERSION See PARAPHILIAS: Disciplining Sexual Deviance at the Library of Congress” (PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, 2012), p. 178.
6. Memorandum from Ruth Rappaport to Regene Ross, August 29, 1985, retrieved by the LC Subject Policy Committee. This heading was later split into two separate terms, “Crime” and “Criminology.”
7. “About the LC Online Catalog,” Library of Congress (website), https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/.
8. Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Headings Concerning People (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1971), pp. ix–x.
9. Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies, p. xi.
10. Stephen A. Knowlton, “Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings,” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2005): pp. 123–45.
11. Thompson Yee, in discussion with the author, May 8, 2013.
12. These letters are available in Sandy Berman’s collection of papers at the American Library Association archives.
13. “Report of the Racism and Sexism in Subject Analysis Subcommittee to the RTSD/CCS Subject Analysis Committee,” midwinter 1980, ALA Archives, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) collection.
14. Ruth Rappaport, “SAC Subcommittee on Racism and Subject Analysis,” in “Appendix II: Continuing Reports on the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Chicago, IL., June 24–30, 1978,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, August 18, 1978, pp. 501–502.
15. Letter from Sandy Berman to James Billington, December 13, 1989, Sandy Berman Collection, ALA Archives.
16. “Librarian of Congress Testifies before House Committee on 1991 Budget,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, February 26, 1990, p. 92.
17. “Congress Comes through on LC Appropriations,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, November 19, 1990, p. 387.
18. Ana L. Cristán, “SACO and Subject Gateways,” Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing information, edited by Arlene G. Taylor, Barbara B. Tillett (New York City: Routledge, 2005), p. 315.
19. “Cataloging in the 1990s: Sanford Berman’s Challenge to LC,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, February 22, 1993, p. 86.