Howard, Sara A., and Steven A. Knowlton. “Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies.” Library Trends 67, no. 1 (Summer 2018): 74–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0026.
Howard and Knowlton explore how bias is ingrained in Library of Congress Classification (LCC), which thus continues to otherize and obscure works by marginalized authors and works about marginalized communities. Most usefully, the authors reveal how LCC leans on categorization as division: many communities and the works they create are not siloed neatly into the divisions instantiated by LCC. Further, these divisions discourage interdisciplinary research. The authors suggest that library staff become experts on LCC headings, classification numbers, and keywords to advise students how best to search out materials on and about marginalized communities.