*Some of the bibliographic information on this page is from:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sandy Berman
but Were Afraid to Ask.
Everything
Edited by Chris Dodge and Jan DeSirey
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995.
1990s
Biographical sketch (in the ALA yearbook of library and information services v
15,
1990 American Library Association p. 71)
E.J. and me: twenty years of
correspondence and agitation.
(in
E. J. Josey. Scarecrow press 1992 p. 53-88)
Israeli censorship, Palestinian
rights, and antisemitism.
(In
Alternative library literature, 1990/91.
McFarland & Co. 1992. p. 82-3)
"A teachable moment." MSRRT (Minnesota Social Responsibilities Round Table)
quincentennial
panelists. (In Alternative Library
Literature, 1990/91.
McFarland
& Co. p. 214-15)
Things are seldom what they seem:
Finding multicultural materials in library
catalogs
[LC
vs Hennepin County Library Cataloging: revised version of an article in
Indigenous
Thought June '91]
(in
Alternative Library Literature, 1990/91.)
McFarland & Co. 1992 p. 132-6).
Editor, Alternative Library
Literature. 1990/91
Cataloging in the 1990s : Sanford
Berman's challenge to LC [at
November
24th cataloging forum].
Augustyn,
F.J.
Library
of Congress Information Bulletin
v52 p. 86 February 22, 1993.
New subject headings of interest
to women.
Wilson
Library Journal
v.
15 p. 8 Wint '92-93
v.
16 p 13+ Spring 1993
v.
16 p 12 Summer 1993
v.16 p16-17
Fall 1993
v.
16 p 14-17 Winter '93-94
Catalogers petition for new
subject headings [to eliminate outdated or biased
terminology] School Library
Journal v 41 p. 17-18 May 1995.
Everything you always wanted to
know about Sandy Berman but were afraid to
ask; edited by Chris Dodge and Jan DeSirey; with a foreward by
Bill Katz
McFarland
& Co. 1995 179 p. il
Sing a song of green cards [at Hennepin County Library; bibliographical essay;
remarks
at the customers by Dynix, Inc.
Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota,
April
1996] Technicalities v 16 p 1 + Jl/Au '96
"Cataloging Tools and
'Copy': The Myth of Acceptability --- a Public Librarian's
Viewpoint." Cataloging
Heresy: Challenging the Standard
Bibliographic
Product. Learned Information, 1992. p. 31-36
(Audio
cassette), American Library Association, 1992. Recording of a
program
at the 111th annual conference of the American Library Association
held
June 25-July 2, 1992, in San Francisco.
"Don't Look for Oil in the
Catalog: Tips to Library Users from
the Inside."
Northern
Sun News, Winter 1990/91, pp. 3, 13.
Aimed
at general readers, this editorial is intended not only to make library users
"more
cautious
and critical" about subject access in library catalogs, but also
"upset enough to
...demand...that
libraries employ more accurate and easy-to-find terminology." Also
included
is material on getting libraries to "stock more than just 'mainstream,'
orthodox,
officially-sanctioned
books, periodicals, and AV items."
"Eliminate Fines and
Fees." Public Image, June 1991, pp. 5-6.
"Fees, Fines and Poor
People: Guest Editorial." WLW Journal, Spring 1991,
p.
15-16.
"Foreword," in Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt, Gay and Lesbian Library Service,
McFarland, 1990, pp.
xv-xx.
Features examples of Berman's action-oriented
correspondence, including a letter to
the
publisher of a book promoting
"thoroughly disgusting and ultimately harmful
assertions
about AIDS and gay men," as well as a petition urging that the Library of
Congress
"abandon the subject heading GAYS ...[and] institute a 'see' reference
from
GAYS
to GAY MEN and LESBIANS," and establish such new descriptors as GAY and
LESBIAN
RIGHTS, GAY PERIODICALS, and LESBIAN FEMINISM.
"Foreward," in Ken Wachsberger, Voices
from the Underground, Volume 2: A
Directory of Sources and
Resources on the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Mica
Press, 1993, pp. x-xii.
Autobiographical
account of how "even in the middle of Africa" the underground press
"functioned as a context, as a moral and
political inspiration, for my own thoughts and
acts."
"Foreword," in Randall W. Scott, Comics
Librarianship: A Handbook, McFarland,
1990,
p. 1-4. Includes case studies in cataloging a graphic novel and a collection of
comic
strips, intended "to reinforce ...Scott's contentions: that comics are
both worth
getting and worth treating right"
"The 'Fucking' Truth About
Library Catalogs." Progressive Librarian, Summer 1992
.
p. 19-25.
Material
about sex is not easily found in the typical library catalog, says Berman, who
lists common terms not "sanctified"
by the Library of Congress and makes practical
suggestions
for enhanced access.
"Hot Stuff: Getting Sex in
the Library." Collection Building, v. 13 no. 1
(1993). p. 45-47.
"Why
do most librarians experience no particular qualms about stocking Mein Kampf,
but
panic at the prospect of buying and circulating pictures of unabashed nudity
and
active,
unapologetic sex?" Includes
material on libraries' treatment of Madonna's Sex.
"Jackie Urbanovic" (Video). Hennepin
County Library, 1992. 30 minutes.
Berman
interviews the Minnesota artist /cartoonist who has contributed
illustrations
(including cover graphics) to several editions of Alternative
Library
Literature.
"John Yewell, Jan DeSirey,
Chris Dodge" (Video). Hennepin County Library,
1992. 30 minutes. A discussion between Berman and the co-editors of
Confronting
Columbus (McFarland 1992), an anthology of essays related
to
the Columbus Quincentennial (a book he suggested).
"Library Workers Do More to
Help the Poor and Homeless."
Collective Voice
[Minneapolis], March/April 1992, p. 39.
Guest editor, MLA Newsletter,
October 1992. Includes Berman
commentary on
"What the candidates won't
be talking about" and proposed
national health
insurance.
Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: What Libraries Say The Do But Frequently Don't
a talk by Sanford Berman, April 17, 1997, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
School of Library and Information Science.