Decolonizing the Shelves.

INSTITUTE of Museum & Library Services (U.S.); BIBLIOGRAPHIC classification; CLASSIFICATION of books; LIBRARY of Congress; SUBJECT headings; DEWEY decimal classification; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas

The article reports on the grant project, Decolonizing Libraries to Foster Community Well-Being from the Institute of Museum and Library Services that aims to create a new library classification systems. Topics discussed include comments from librarian Anne Heidemann on the Library of Congress subject headings, criticism against the Dewey Decimal System, and preliminary discussions about using the Brian Deer Classification System.