"I propose a more modest goal: historicize the catalog. Instead of abandoning or overthrowing it,…"

“I propose a more modest goal: historicize the catalog. Instead of abandoning or overthrowing it, realize and then teach that catalogs and systems of classification are not only social constructs, created by humans, but also historical constructs, created at specific points in time.”

BeerBrarian: Libraries and (Post)Modernity: A Review of Radical Cataloging (via schoolpoint)

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