1980s

 

 

Compiler, "Index," In Marian S.  Edsall, Library promotion handbook (Oryx Press,

1980), p. 232-44.

 

Compiler, "Index" in Networks for networkers: critical issues in cooperative library

 development (Neal-Schuman, 1980), p. 419-44.

 

"Cataloging Castaneda," in Richard de Mille, ed., The Don Juan papers: further

 Casteneda controversies (Ross-Ericson Publishers, 1980), p. 100-3.

 

Comments/citations: 

 

Jane L. C. Gosney, Library journal. April 15, 1980. p. 982.

 

Compiler, "Index," in E. J. Josey, ed., Libraries in the political process

(Oryx Press, 1980), p. 299-322.

 

"DDC 19: an indictment," Library journal, v. 105, no. 5 (March 1, 1980), p. 585-89.

 

Comments/citations:

 

"Letters," Library journal, June 1, 1980, p. 1240;

 

"Letters," Library journal, June 15, 1980, p. 1339;

 

"Letters," Library journal, July 1980, p. 1444;

 

"Letters," Library journal, August 1980, p. 1555-6;

 

Elizabeth M. Dickson, "Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 19: schedules relating to

 men, women, age levels, and alternative relationships, " in Report of the Racism and

 Sexism in Subject Analysis Subcommittee to the RTSD/CCS Subject Analysis

 Committee, Midwinter 1980 (3d revision, June 1980), Appendix 3, p. 1;

 

Elizabeth Dickinson, "Living with DDC 19," Technicalities, v. 1, no. 13 (Dec. 1981),

p. 10-11;

 

 Hans W. Wellisch, "Year's work in subject analysis: 1980," Library resources & technical

services, July/Sept. 1981, p. 297;

 

Richard A. Gray,  "Classification schemes as cognitive maps," Reference librarian, no. 9

 (Fall/Winter 1983), p. 146, 153;

 

John A. Humphrey and Judith Kramer-Greene, "DDC and its users: current policies,"

 ibid., p. 155, 163;


 

Arthur Curley and Jana Varlejs, Aker Simple library cataloging (Scarecrow Press, 1984)

, p. 169-70.

 

Reprint:

 

Bill Katz, ed., Library lit. 11 - the best of 1980 (Scarecrow Press, 1981), p. 99-107.

 

Compiler,  "Subject index," in Maureen Crowley, ed., Energy: sources of print and

 nonprint materials (Neal-Schuman, 1980), p. 327-41.

 

"If there were a Sex index...,"  in Peter Gellaty, ed., Sex magazines in the library

 collection: a scholarly study of sex in serials and periodicals (Haworth Press, 1980),

p. 99-135.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Eric moon, "Sex mags study," Library journal, July 1980, p. 1492;

 

Eli Oboler, Newsletter on intellectual freedom, Sept. 981, p. 122;

 

Mark Rabnett, Manitoba Library Association Bulletin, v. 12, no. 4 (Sept. 1982), p. 24;

 

Gregg Sapp, "Levels of access: subject approaches to fiction," RQ, v. 25, no. 4

(Summer 1986), p. 494, 497.

 

"Living amid closed catalogs," in D. Kaye Gapen and Bonnie Juergen, eds., Closing

 the catalog: proceedings of the 1978 and 1979 Library and Information Technology

 Association Institutes (Oryx Press, 1980), p. 147-51.

 

Reprint:

 

Cynthia C. Ryans, ed., The card catalog: current issues; readings and selected

 bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 1981), p. 89-93.


 

Comments/citations:

 

James R. Dwyer, "The effect of closed access on public access," Library resources &

technical services, v. 25, no. 2 (April/June 1981), p. 194-5.

 

Complier, "Index," in D. Kaye Gapen and Bonnie Juergens, eds., Closing the catalog

 (Oryx Press, 1980), p. 177-94.

 

Complier, "Index," in Carol H. and James L. Thomas, eds., Meeting the needs of the

 handicapped: a resource for teachers and librarians (Oryx Press, 1980), p. 439-79.

 

"Title access," Technicalities, v.1, no. 1 (Dec. 1980), P. 6-7.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Janet Swan Hill, "Letters to the editor," Technicalities, v.1, no. 2 (Jan. 1981), p. 2: retort:

v. 1, no. 4 (March 1981), p. 2

 

 "Space Age hardware, Stone Age data," SRRT newsletter, #57 (Sept. 1980)

 

Compiler, "Index," in Using AACR2: a diagrammatic approach (Oryx Press, 1981),

p. 181-99.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Mary Dyksta, "Algorithms & 'AACR 2,'" Library journal, Oct 15, 1981, p. 2001;

 

Jeanne Osborn, American reference books annual (1982), p. 143-4.

 

 


Joy of cataloging: essays, letters, reviews, and other explosions (Oryx Press,

1981), 249 p.

 

Reviews:

 

Frank Bright, Added entries (Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison), no.

173 (June 5, 1981), p. 5-6;

 

Noel Peatie, Sipapu, v. 12, no. 1 (1981), p. 12-13;

 

Sophie K. Black, Booklist, Oct. 15, 1981, p. 283;

 

Susan Traill, Emergency librarian Sept./Oct. 1981, p. 19-20;

 

Anita Garey, WLW journal, April/Sept. 1981, p. 14-15;

 

Tom Jedele, PLAFSEP, no. 17 (Winter 1981/82), p. 2-3;

 

Jeanne Osborn, American reference books annual (1982), p. 136;

 

Grant Burns, New pages, v. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1982), p. 17;

 

Robert Lincoln, Manitoba Library Association Bulletin, v. 12, no. 3 (June 1982), p. 10-11;

 

J. M. Perreault, " 'A representative of the New Left in American subject cataloguing': a

review essay on Sanford Berman's The Joy of cataloging," in Dialogue on the subject

catalogue (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science,

1983; Occasional papers, no. 161), p. 3-29;

 

American notes & queries, Sept./Oct. 1983.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Resources in library and information science (OPLIC, St. Paul), #30 (April/May 1981).

 p. 3;

 

Recent publications on governmental problems (Merriam Center Library, Chicago), v.

 50, no. 10 (May 15, 1981), p. 5;

 

Consumer health info (Twin Cities Biomedical Consortium), v. 4, no. 12 (Dec. 1981),

 p. 5;

 

"Bibliography," Maledicta, v. 5, nos. 1/2 (Summer/Winter 1981), p. 328;

 

Gail J. Junion, "Guide to reference tools for cataloging Africana," Library

resources & technical services, v. 26, no. 2 (April/June 1982), p. 121;

 

Dick DeBacher, "The Oryx Press: information, high-technology, and libraries,"

Library and information science annual (1987), p. 17;


 

Jennifer A. Younger, "Year's work in subject analysis: 1981," Library resources &

technical services, July/Sept 1982, p. 267, 272;

 

James C. Thompson and Kay A. Flowers, "Pseudoscience, creationism and the library,"

 Catholic library world, 1984, p. 178-9;

 

Lois M. Pausch and Robert H. Burger,  "Making of the adaptable cataloger," Illinois

 libraries, v. 67, no.5 (May 1985), p. 441-2;

 

Russell Ash and Brian Lake, Bizarre books (Macmillian London, 1985), p. 130;

 

Gregg Sapp, "Levels of access: subject approaches to fiction," RQ, v. 25, no. 4 (Summer

1986), p. 492, 497.

 

Reprint:

 

"From sea to shining sea ...to Inland Sea... to Sea combined with rudder ... to Sea for the

inland boatman ... to Sea, inland edition, " in Susan M. Murray, editor, Toronto Health

Libraries Association Union list of periodicals (4th ed.: 1984), p. 1-2.

 

"LCSH: an exchange between Mary Kay Pietris and Sandy Berman, " Technicalities,

v. 1, no. 4 (March 1981), p. 5-7, 9.

 

"The local library and the small press," Small press review, v. 13, no. 6 (June 1981),

 p. 37-8.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Cristine Rom, "Little magazines: do we really need them?," Wilson library bulletin, v. 56

, no. 7 (March 1982), p. 517, 519;

 

Eric J. Carpenter, "Small presses," in Patricia A. McClung, Selection of library materials

in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences (ALA, 1985), p. 345;

 

Trish Harper, "The public library and small presses: surviving, hopeful, and full of

surprises," Show-me libraries, Oct./Nov. 1982, p. 9;

 

Patricia J. Case, "Antidote to the homogenized library," New pages, no. 6 (Spring 1983),

p. 7.

 

"Berman on consumerism: a guest editorial," Technicalities, v. 1, no. 2

 (Nov. 1981), p. 1

 

Reprint:

 

Librarians for social change, v. 10 no. 1  (1982), p. 2.


62. "Consumer, beware!," Technicalities, v. 1, no. 12 (Nov. 1982), p. 11-2;

 

v. 1, no. 13, (Dec. 1981), p. 3, 11;

v.2, no. 1 (Jan. 1982), p. 6-7;

v. 2, no. 2 (Fev. 1982),  p. 6-7;

v. 2, no 3 (March 1982), p. 8-10;

v. 2, no. 6 (June 1982), p. 8-9;

v. 2, no. 7 (July 1982), p. 7, 16;

v. 2, no. 8 (August 1982), p. 8-9;

v. 2, no 11 (Nov. 1982), p. 11-12;

v. 2, no. 12 (December 1982), p. 14-15;

v. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1983), p. 9-10;

v. 3, no. 2 (Feb. 1983),, p. 10-11;

v.3, no. 3 (March 1983),  p. 3-5, 8;

v. 3, no. 6 (June 1983), p. 15-16;

v. 3, no. 7 (July 1983), p. 2, 12;

v. 3,  no. 8 (August 1983), p. 15-16;

v. 3, no. 10 (October 1983), p. 2, 12;

v. 3, no. 12 (Dec. 1983), p. 10-11,15;

v. 4, no. 2 (Feb. 1984), p. 5-6, 10;

v.4, no. 3 (March 1984), p. 5-6, 16;

v. 4, no. 6 (June 1984), p. 10-11;

v. 4, no. 10 (October 1984), p. 11-13:

v. 4, no. 12 (Dec. 1984), p. 8-10;

v. 5, no. 2 (Feb. 1985), p. 6-8;

v. 5, no 4 (April 1985), p. 8-9;

v. 5, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 13-15;

v.5, no. 12 (Dec. 1985), p. 9-11;

v.6, no. 2 (Feb. 1986), p. 12-13, 15;

v.6, no. 8 (August 1986), p. 9-10;

v. 6 no. 11 (Nov. 1986), p. 13-15;

v.6, no. 12 (dec. 1986), p. 8-11;

v. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1987), p. 12-13;

v. 7, no. 3 (March 1987), p. 10-111;

v. 7, no. 4 (April 1987), p. 11-12;

v.7, no. 5 (May 1987), p. 5-7;

v.7, no. 6 (June 1987), p. 12, 14.


 

“Inside' censorship," Wisconsin library bulletin, v. 77, no. 1 (Spring 1981), p. 21-4.

 

Abridged reprints:

 

North country anvil, #40 (Aug./Sept. 1982), p. 20-2;

 

Librarians for social change, v. 10, no. 2 (1982), p. 3-6.

 

 

Comments/citations:

 

Patricia J. Case, "Antidote to the homogenized library," New pages, no. 6 (Spring 1983),

 p. 7:

 

 Lester Asheim, "Selection and censorship: a reappraisal," Wilson library bulletin

 Nov 1983, p. 184.

 

 

"Reference, readers and fiction: new approaches," Reference librarian, nos. 1/2

(Fall/Winter 1981), p. 45-53.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Audrey Taylor, PRECIS indexing in school libraries: a tool for tomorrow today (paper

 presented at International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference,

August 1-6, 1982, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada), p. 11;

 

 Gregg Sapp, "Levels of access: subject approaches to fiction," RQ v. 25, no. 4

(Summer 1986), p. 492-3, 497.


 

Compiler, "Index," in James P. Danky and Elliott Shore, editors, Alternative materials in

libraries (Metuchen , NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982), p. 211-45.

 

Compiler, Technicalities: index to volume 1 (Oryx Press, 1982), 12 pages.

 

"Do-it-yourself subject cataloging," Library journal, v. 107, no. 8 (April 15, 1982),

 p. 785-6.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Constance Rinehart, "Subject cataloging in 1982," Library resources & technical

services, v. 27, no. 3 (July/Sept. 1983), p. 270, 275;

 

American Library Association Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Subject Access

to Microcomputer Software, Guidelines on subject access to microcomputer software

 (1986), p. 22.

 

 

Consultant/indexer, Alternative papers: selections from the alternative press,

 1979-1980 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982),"Index": p. 487-521.

 

 

Comments/citations:

 

American libraries, Sept. 1982, p. 511;

 

Kenneth F. Kister, Library journal, Oct. 1, 1982, p. 1875;

 

Bill Katz, Library journal, Dec. 15, 1982, p. 2324;

 

Neal Edgar, Newsletter on intellectual freedom, Jan. 1983, p. 6;

 

Grant Burns, New pages, no. 6 (Spring 1983), p. 9.

 

 

" The Jewish Question' in library cataloging, " Shmate, v. 1, no. 3 (Sept./Oct. 1982),

 p. 8-12.

 

Revised and updated version of the 1979 AJL Convention paper originally published as

"The 'Jewish Question' in Subject Cataloging," in Joy

of cataloging (1981), p. 13-23.

           

Comments/citations:

 

"Library followup," Shmate, v.1, no. 4 (Jan. 1983), p. 3, 23.


 

Compiler, "Subject index," in Renee Feinberg, Women, education and employment: a

 bibliography of periodical citation, pamphlets, newspapers and government documents,  

1970-1980 (Library Professional Publications, 1982), p. 247-74.

 

 

Comments/citations:

 

Donna L. Nerboso, Library Journal, Dec. 15, 1982, p. 2330;

 

Donna L. Nerboso, "Studying 'the 80%': a selected guide to bibliographic

sources on working women," Behavioral and social sciences librarian, Spring 1985,

p. 67.

 

 

Compiler, Technicalities: index to volume 2 (Oryx Press, 1983). 16 pages.

 

 

Compiler, "Subject index, " Information American,

 

v. 6, no. 1 (1983), p. 147-61;

v. 6, no. 2 (1983), p. 163-90;

v. 6, no. 3 (1983), p. 148-88;

v. 7, no. 1 (1984), p. 141-57;

v. 7, no. 2 (1984), p. 144-76;

v. 7, no. 3 (1985), p. 138-81.

 

"Good information," North Country Anvil, no. 45 (Fall 1983), p. 9-10.

 

Contributor, A dialogue on the subject catalogue (University of Illinois Graduate

School of Library and Information Science, 1983; Occasional papers,

no. 161), p. 30-44, 54-6, 59-60.

 

"Predictions," Technical services quarterly, v. 1, nos. 1/2 (Fall/Winter, 1983), p. 61-3.

 

Reprinted excerpt:

 

 "An 'automation gap,'" Library administrators' digest, v. 19, no. 8 (Oct. 1984), p. 58.

 


Comments/citations:

 

Richard L. Waters, Public Library Quarterly, v. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1985), p. 104;

 

Jeanne Osborn, Library science annual, v. 1 (1985), p. 144.

 

Compiler, Technicalities: index to volume 3 (Oryx Press, 1984). 19 pages.

 

"Where have all the Moonies gone?," Reference librarian, no. 9 (Fall/Winter 1983),

p. 133-43.

           

Reprinted excerpt:

 

American libraries, April 1984, p. 227.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Janice Shea, Canadian library journal, Oct. 1984, p. 304.

 

"Action-recommendations  to PLA Cataloging Needs Committee," Unabashed

 librarian, no. 48 (1983), p. 13-14.

 

Co-editor/indexer, Alternative library literature, 1982/1983: a biennial anthology

 (Oryx Press, 1984). 33p.

 

Reviews:

 

Grant Burns, New Pages, no. 8 (Fall 1984), p. 19; Workbook, v. 9, no. 4 (Oct./Dec.

 1984), p. 157-8;

 

Jim Dwyer, Library Journal, Dec. 1984 p. 2246;

 

Norman Stevens, Wilson library bulletin, Nov. 1984;

 

Book list, Jan. 15, 1985, p. 683:

 

Noel Peattie, Sipapu, v. 15, no. 2 (1984), p. 15-16;

 

Kay Cassell, Voice of Youth Advocates, v. 7, no. 6 (Feb. 1985), p. 352;

 

Leslie Kahn, Women in libraries, March/April 1985, p. 7; no. 6 (Feb. 1985), p. 352;

 

Jackie Eubanks, Interracial books for children bulletin, v. 16, nos. 2/3 (1985), p. 28;

 

Cristine CD Rom, Serials review, Spring 1985, p. 44-5; Jennifer Lodde, WLA

 [Wisconsin Library Association] journal, no. 1 (June 1985), p. 79-80;

 

Joseph W. Palmer, Library science annual, v. 1 (1985), p. 109;

 

Kathleen Hirooka, WLW journal, v. 10 (1985), p. 8.

 

 

Comments/citations:

 

Whole again resource guide, 1986/87, p. 53.

 

"Nukes in the library: an antidote to media suppression,"  New pages, no. 8 (Fall

 1984), p. 17-18.

 

Editor/contributor/indexer, Subject cataloging: critiques and innovations (Haworth

 Press, 1984). 252 pages.  Also issues as Technical services quarterly, v. 2, nos. 1/2

(Fall/Winter 1984).

 

Reviews:

 

Peter Lisbon, American libraries, April 1985, p. 228, 248;

 

Book list, April 15, 1985, p. 1158; Norman Stevens, Wilson library bulletin, May 1985,

p. 618-19;

 

Jeanne Osborn, Library science annual, v. 1 (1985), p. 81;

 

Jean Martin Perreault, International classification, v. 12, no. 3 (1985);

 

Doris Hargrett Clack, Journal of education for library and information science, Spring

1986.

 

Comments/citations:

 

 Shelia S. Intner,  "Recent technical services research: an analysis," RTSD newsletter, v

. 11 no. 2 (1986), p. 10-11;

 

Pauline A. Cochrane, Improving LCSH for use in online catalogs (Libraries Unlimited,

1986), p. 4, 8;

 

 Doris Cruger Dale and Betty-Ruth Wilson, "Survey of the literature on subject analysis

for 1984-1985," Library resources & technical services, July/Sept. 1986, P. 274-7, 280-1,

283;

 

Candy Schwarts/Laura Malin Eisenmann, "Subject analysis," in Annual review of

information science and technology (1986), p. 43, 51.

 

"Proposal for reforms to improve subject searching,"  American Libraries, April

1984, p. 254.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Pauline A. Cochrane, Improving LCSH for use in online catalogs (Libraries Unlimited,

1986), p. 43.

 

Reprint: Cochrane, p. 121-2.

 

 

"In the beginning: Creationism and the schools," Shmate, nos. 11/12/ (Summer

1985), p. 44-6.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Noel Peattie, "Our reaction...," Sipapu, no. 35 (1985), p. 19

 

"Genesis caper, " Utne reader, no. 10 (June/July 1985), p. 16-17.

 

Reprint:

Minnesota Skeptics newsletter, Jan. 1986, p. 2

 

 

Editor,  "the censorship scene: Minnesota Reviews supplement,"  Minnesota

reveiws, Aug./Sept. 1985, p. S9-16.

 

"' Give peace a chance': subject access to material on nukes, militarism, and war,

 "   Technical services quarterly, v. 3, nos. 1/2 (Fall 1985/Winter 1985/86), p. 113-26.

 

Comments/citations:

 

"Berman's new 'nuke' subject headings," LNAC almanac Fall/Winter 1986, p. 3; Paul G

 Weiss, Technical services quarterly, v. 4, no. 2 (Winter 1986), p. 3 (retort: p. 3-6).


 

87.  "' In the beginning': the creationist agenda," Library journal, October 15, 1985,

p. 31-4.

 

Comments/citations:

 

"Damning that old time religion: educational backlash against Creationist flook,"

 Newpages, no. 10 (Winter/Spring 1986), p. 4;

 

John H. Rush, "Separating church & state,"   Library journal, Jan. 1986, p. 8;

 

Charlotte M. Gunther, "Two separate areas of study," ibid., p. 10;

 

Joseph McDonald, "Bluster and threats,"  Library journal, Feb. 1, 1986, p. 8, 10; 

 

George A. Mindeman, "Devastating exposes," ibid., p. 10;

 

Beth M. Stenberg, "Teach your children well," Ibid., p. 10:

 

Dennis Ingolfsland, "Support and suppression," ibid., p. 12;

 

"Library issues: a push for creationist books in libraries,"  Creation/evolution newsletter,

Nov. /Dec. 1985, p. 21; 

 

John Elliott, "Steve Martin, move over," Library journal, March 15, 1986, p. 7; 

 

"Articles of note," Skeptical inquirer, Spring 1986, p. 282;

 

George Rickerson, "Correction & commendation," Library journal, April 1, 1986, p. 8;

 

Timothy Perper, "Science through classification," LJ, May 1, 986, p. 6;

 

Ralph Nielsen, "Pseudoscience of Creationism," ibid.;

 

Noel Peattie, Sipapu, v. 17, no. 1 (Spring 1986), p. 30-2;

 

Ernie Lazar, Creation/evolution bibliography/directory (1987), p. 123.

 


Retorts:

 

"Religion and/or science," Library journal, March 15, 1986, p. 6-7.

 

"Foreword," in David F. Kohn, Cataloging and catalogs: a handbook for library

management (ABC-Clio, 1986), p. xiii-xiv.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Virgil L.P. Blake, Library journal, April 15, 1986, p. 62;

 

Sheila S. Intner, "Library research," RTSD newsletter, v. 11, no. 8 (1986), p. 90.

 

Abridged reprint:

 

"Cataloging and catalogs," Library administrator's digest, v. 21, no. 3 (March 1986),

p. 19.

 

Editor/indexer, Cataloging special materials: critiques and innovations (Oryx

Press, 1986). 198 pages.

 

Reviews:

 

Norman Stevens, Wilson library bulletin, Oct. 1986, p. 58-9;

 

Helena M. Van Deroef, Library journal, Nov. 1, 1986, p. 50;

 

Thomas Lehman, RTSD newsletter, v. 11, no. 7 (1986), p. 83;

 

Booklist, Jan. 1, 1987, p. 681;

 

JoAnn V. Rogers, Library and information science annual (1987);

 

Marilyn Kogon, Emergency librarian, March/April 1987.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Music cataloging bulletin, v. 17, no. 12 (1986), p. 8;

 

Shelia S. Intner, "Library research, " RTSD newsletter, v. 11,  no. 8 (1986), p. 90-1.


 

Co-author, "Amandla! Attack on Apartheid," New pages, no. 11 (Fall 1986),

 p. 1, 9-13.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Africana libraries newsletter, no. 48 (Dec. 1986), p. 4

 

Co-editor/contributor/indexer, Alternative library literature, 1984/1985: a biennial

anthology (McFarland, 1986). 247 pages.

 

Reviews: 

 

John Crawford, ASPC newsletter, v.1, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1987), p. 9;

 

Workbook b. 12, no. 1 (Jan./March 1987), p. 26-7;

 

Booklist, April 1, 1987, p. 1175;

 

Meta Nissley, Technicalities, March 1987, p. 12;

 

Noel Peattie, Sipapu, v. 17, no. 2 (Late 1986), p. 21;

 

Leonard Kniffel, New pages, no. 12 (Spring/Summer 1987), p. 7-8;

 

Jim Dwyer, Library journal, May 15, 1987, p. 56;

 

Norman Stevens, Wilson library bulletin, May 1987, p. 59;

 

Jeanne Kocsis, SRRT newsletter, no. 84 (June 1987), p. 7;

 

Joseph W. Palmer, Library and information science annual (1987), p. 62;

 

Wallace White, Newsletter on intellectual freedom, July 1987, p. 124.


 

"Terrible truth about teenlit cataloging, "  Top of the news, v. 43 no. 3

(Spring 1987), p. 311-20.

 

"Give peace a chance:" subject access to material on nukes,

militarism, and war.  (In Libraries in the 80s.   Haworth Press

1985   p. 113-26).

 

Proposal for reforms to improve subject searching. [reprinted from American

Libraries April '84]   (In Cochrane, P.A. Improving LCSH for use in online catalogs.

Libraries Unlimited 1986  p.121-2)

 

Nelson, M.G. Catalogers as librarians [Sanford Berman and LC]

Wilson Library Bulletin  61:4   O'86.

 

Consumer, beware!    Technicalities 6:13-15

 

N   '86;        6:  8-11

D   '86         7: 12-13

Ja  '87         7: 10-11

Mr  '87        7: 11-12

Ap ' 87        7:  5-7

My  '87       7:  12+

Je   '87

Jl   ’87        8-10

S ‘87          9-10

D ‘877:       7 -8

My ’88       13-14

 

 

Alternative perspectives: a conversation with Sandy Berman [head

cataloger, Hennepin County Library]

Dwyer, J.R.

Technicalities 6: 3-9 O ' 86

 

Alternative Library Literature 1984/85:  a biennial anthology; edited by

Sanford Berman and James P. Danky

McFarland & Co. 1986  247 p. il

 

Cataloging Special Materials; Critiques and innovations:

editing by Sanford Berman   Oryx Press 1986   198 p.

 


"Listing Dangerously: taxonomies, typologies and classifications

 [to be continued]

Hauptman, Robert and Berman,Sanford,

Catholic Library World

59:62+   S/O  '87

59:110-11  N/D '87

 

Not funny any more [list of outdated and bizarre LC headings]

Library Journal 113:80  Je 1, '88

 

Worth Noting; editorials, letters, essays, an interview and bibliography.

McFarland & Co.  1988  176 p.

 

Podium: stand up for better cataloging! [petition drive to help get cataloging better suited to readers' needs] Emergency Librarian 16: 21-5   N/D '88.

 

1989 ALA award winners [ALA equality award]  American Libraries

20: 604  Je '89 Erratum 20: 824 S '89

 

1989 ALA award winners [ALA equality award]   Library Journal 114:54 

August 1989

 

1989 ALA award winners [ALA equality award]  SLJ  35:36  August 1989

 

1989  ALA awards winners [ALA equality award] Wilson Library Bulletin

64: 30   September 1989

 

Sandy Berman:  a man for all subjects.  

Pendergast, M.   Wilson Library Bulletin  63:50-3   March 1989.

 

"All About Kids 38" (Video).  Hennepin County Library, 1989.  30 minutes.

Host Gretchen Wronka talks to Sanford Berman about "how to provide library

materials and services for racially and culturally-mixed communities."

 


 

Editor, Alternative Library Literature, 1986/87.   James P. Danky, co-editor.

McFarland, 1988.

 

Includes special feature:  "The Central American/Nicaraguan connection."  

 

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

 

--- Librarian has a ring-around-the-collar job, by Carol Hole.

--- New reference sources on women: an analysis and proposal.

--- peace bibliography.

--- The public library: offensive by design.

--- Interviews from the 6th International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World 

     Books, Bradford, April 1987.

--- Library service and the urban Indian:  Los Angeles.

--- The Uncle Remus travesty.

--- Mail art, by John Held, Jr.

--- Fighting for a place on the wall, by Ricardo Levins Morales.

--- Cold fish ladder: a possible origin of Morth the Dog!

--- Dewey's believe-it-or-not.

 

Reviews:

 

Ray Olson, Booklist, October 1, 1988, pp. 216-217;

 

Emergency Librarian, November/December 1988, p. 46;

 

Wayne A. Wiegand, Journal of Academic Librarianship, February 1989, p. 186;

 

Mark Pendergrast, Library Journal, July 1988, p. 58;

 

John Bate, Library Review [Glasgow], v.38 no. 1 (1989), p. 60;

 

Joanna Richardson, Riverina Library Review [Australia], November 1989;

 

Sipapu, v. 18 no. 2 (1988), p. 7;

 

Barbara Morgan, SRRT Newsletter, March 1989, p. 6;

 

Jim Dwyer, Technicalities, August 1988, p. 2;

 

Norman Stevens, Wilson Library Bulletin, October 1988, p. 94-95.

 

Comments/citations:

 

Helen Cordes, Utne Reader, September/October 1988, p. 138;

 

Reference and Book Review News, August 1988, p.33.


 

Editor, Alternative Library Literature, 1998/89.   James P. Danky, co-editor.

   McFarland,1990.

 

Includes special feature:  "The Arab connection."

 

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

 

--- Computer terminals --- threat to your health/  A look at the VDT syndrome,

      by Saul Schniderman.

--- Linking research, policy, and activism: library services in women's studies, by Sara

     M. Pritchard. 

---The information needs of battered women, by Roma M. Harris.

--- Feminist publishing and bookselling in the U.S.A.

--- Nuclear fiction for children.

--- Propaganda systems: Orwell's and ours, by Noam Chomsky.

--- How to read the "New York Times," by Bill Bigelow.

--- Librarians in a police state: South African academic libraries and the problem

     of censorship.

---The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles. 

--- Catalog access to health and medical information: new approaches, by Sanford

     Berman.

--- Cultural arrogance and realism in Judy Blume's Superfudge.

--- One patron's story, by Camille Blanchette.

--- Kimbererly Crotchet: librarian of tomorrow, by Strum and Dikkers.

--- Amy's will; or The last senior, by The Novel Lovers.

--- Introduction to experimental cataloging, by Nancy Bonnell-Kangas.

 

Reviews:

 

Judith James, Australian Library Review, February 1991, p. 32-33;

 

Charles T. Harmon, Booklist,, October 1, 1990, p.253;

 

Margaret L. Jones, Canadian Library Journal, April 1991, p. 137;

 

Mary C. Kalfatovic, Information Processing and Management, v. 27 no. 5 (1991),

pp. 598-599;

 

Scott B. Kass, Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 1991, pp. 32-33;

 

Simon C. Pugh, Library Association Record, April 1991, p. 234;

 

Stephen C. Wagner, Library Journal, August 1990, p. 152;

 

Ian R. M. Mowat, Library Review [Glasgow], v. 40 no. 5 (1991), p. 71;

 

MSRRT Newsletter, August 1990, p.6;

 

Mary A. Donley, Public Library Quarterly, v. 11 no. 4 (1991), pp. 60-61,

pp.341-342;

 

Katherine Dahl, SRRT Newsletter, June 1991, p. 6;

 

Jim Dwyer, Technicalities, October 1990, pp. 9-10;

 

Norman Stevens, Wilson Library Bulletin, January 1991, p.117.

 

Alternative Library Literature, 1990/91.   James P. Dank, co-editor.

McFarland, 1992.  

 

Includes special feature:   "The Columbus Quincentennial: Is There Anything to

 Celebrate?" 

 

PARTIAL CONTENTS:  

 

---The publisher in Ashe County: an interview with Robert Franklin, by Noel Peattie.

---Gays in library land.

---Women in libraries --- ten years of independent organization in the U.K.

---Coming out: The information needs of lesbians.

---SRRT Persian gulf resolution.

---Garbage in, garbage out, by Jeff Cohen.

---Towards a New World Information and Communications Order, a Symposium.

---Israeli censorship in the occupied territories, by Noha Ismail.

---The Charles H. Kerr Company: books to change the world.

---Libraries and the commercialization of information, by Henry T. Blanke.

---The homeless and the public library.

---Things are seldom what they seem: finding multicultural materials in library

    catalogs, by Sanford Berman.

---Nature's outcast child: Black people in children's books.

---Sacred places: American Indian literature from small presses.

 

Reviews:

 

Bob Pymm, Australian Library Review, August 1993, pp. 293-294;

 

Charles T. Harmon, Booklist, October 1, 1992, p. 235;

 

Maurice B. Line, Library Association Record, January 1993, p. 42;

 

Todd M. Yeager, Library Journal, November 1, 1992, p. 123;

 

Denise Dumars, Library Mosaics,  November/December 1993, p. 12;

 

David E. Gerard, Library Review [Glasgow], v. 42 no. 3 (1993), pp. 48-49;

 

MSRRT Newsletter, September 1992, p. 5;

 

Kay Carolyn Saunders, Public Library Quarterly, v. 13 no. 2 (1993), p. 71;

 

Suzanne Tronier, SRRT Newsletter,  December 1993, pp. 8-9;

 

Carol Reid, WLW Journal, Winter 1992/3, pp/ 19-20;

 

 

Alernative Library Literature, 1992/93.   James P. Danky, co-editor.

 

McFarland, 1994.   Includes special feature, "Sex, Censorship, and H. W. Wilson."

 

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

 

---Closed stacks at the Library of Congress: a historian responds.

---No love lost: library women vs. women who use libraries.

---Media control: the spectacular achievements of propaganda, by Noam

    Chomsky.

---Journalism of joy, by Ben H. Bagdikian.

---Talk radio: who gets to talk?

---USIA:  propaganda as public diplomacy.

---No more books behind bars, by Adrian Lomax.

---Kid-bashing in the 90s, by Marge Loch-Wouters.

---Multicultural publishing:  the best and worst of times by Phoebe Yeh.

---Growing up Asian American: a look at some recent young adult novels.

---Once upon a Quincentenary: the curriculum wars 500 years after Columbus

    by Bill Bigelow.

---The homeless: what's a library to do?

---The potential of Gay and Lesbian History Month.

---AIDS and public libraries.

---Oral traditions under threat: the Australian Aboriginal experience.

---Oh, how green is you library.

---Hot stuff: getting sex in the library, by Sanford Berman.

---Alternative sex, some zines, comics, books, and sources, by Chris Dodge.

---The "fucking" truth about library catalogs, by Sanford Berman.

---Mysterious tales of the reference desk, by Raleigh Clayton Muns.

 

"Catalog Access to Health and Medical Information: New Approaches."

Alternative Library Literature 1988/89, McFarland, 1990, pp 211-217.

 

Library of Congress vs. Hennepin County Library cataloging.

"Talk given on October 29, 1987, at the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library

Association conference in Cleveland" on

 

"Compare and Contrast, or, The Unexamined Cataloging Record Isn't Worth Inputting."   Collection Building, v. 9   no. 2 (1988), pp. 36-42. 

 

Provides side-by-side comparisons of Library of Congress and Hennepin County Library

records for thirteen small and alternative press titles.

 


"Consumer, BEWARE!"

 

Technicalities,

 

July 1987, pp. 8-10;

September 1987, pp. 9-10;

December 1987, pp. 7-8;

May 1988, pp. 13-14.

 

"DDC 20: The Scam Continues."   Library Journal, September 15, 1989. pp. 45-48.  

 

In question-and-answer format, Berman "takes aim at the new Dewey schedules,"

criticizing "the DDC moguls" and their inability to recognize "the frequently chaotic

effect their number switching has on library shelves."

 

"Foreword," in Noel Peattie, A Passage for Dissent:  The Best of Sipapu 1970-1988,

McFarland, 1989, pp. ix-x.

 

 "I confess to being a magazine junkie," writes Berman.   "So much so, in fact, that I

seldom read whole books any more.   No time.   But to get directly to the point: of all the

 rags that regularly jam my mailbox, Sipapu is one of the few I feel a compulsion to

devour right away.   Like instantly. Even if it means an hour-long pre-dawn stint on the

downstairs couch."

 

"Listing Dangerously: Taxonomies, Typologies, and Classifications,"

Co-author, with Robert Hauptman,

 

Catholic Library World, September/October 1987, pp. 62 +, Part II: 

Catholic Library World, November/December 1987, pp.110-111.