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Another Word for ‘Illegal Alien’ at the Library of Congress: Contentious

Library of Congress Releases Page For the Public to Comment on Proposed “Ilegal Aliens” Subject Heading Cancellation and Replacement

A Fight over Aliens

Biden wants to remove this controversial word from US laws

The Language of Cataloguing: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries

Subjects in Doubt: The Ontogeny of Intersex in the Dewey Decimal Classification (abstract)

Stigmatizing Disability: Library Classifications and the Marking and Marginalization of Books about People with Disabilities (abstract)