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Browsing through bias
Library systems attempt to organise knowledge into tidy silos of scholarly disciplines and they are often inflexible and the language and categories slow to change, which can make LGBTIQA+ information challenging to find.
Searching for LGBTIQA+ information will retrieve results from health, philosophy, politics, history, social sciences, psychology, law and more disciplines.
Use the Call numbers to help you identify and gather together books on a subject area:
- Low 300s are generally most relevant e.g. People by gender or sex 305.3–305.4, 305.4; for transgender and intersex people, see 306.76.
- 155 is psychology
- 700s for film and television
- 600s for health.
Due to legacies of discrimination and bias in library classification, some relevant books may be classified in ways that seem harmful and offensive or collocated with books that are harmful and offensive.
- A brief history of homophobia in Dewey Decimal Classification by Doreen SullivanAn article in Overland exploring homopobia in the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
- Asexuality in the library: Dewey Decimal Classification edition by Chrysocolla TownA blog post exploring how asexuality and other LGBTIQA+ material has been classified in the Dewey Decimal Classification system over time.
- Organising chaosA podcast episode about bias in library and other classification systems.
