On the HCL Catalog
from Sanford Berman to Judith Friedrich
Recommends subject headings for Rebecca Walker's autobiography:
Black,White and Jewish
and
More subject headings for
September 11th.
February 28, 2002
Memo from Charles Brown to the Hennepin
County Library staff:
Changes in the Hennepin County Library Catalog
Preparing for the 21st Century Catalog: Data Standardization
Project:
General Project Information
Technical Plan Overview
Appendix A:
Bibliographic Data Retention
Appendix B: Authority Controlled Tag Processing
Memo
March 5, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Charles Brown, Director
of the Hennepin County Library,
March 7, 2002 and addendum March 8, 2002
On the HCL authority files and catalog
Petition to protest destruction of the HCL
Authority Files and Catalog
Published
on Casey Hill's New Pages
April 7, 2002
Letter from Sanford Berman to Charles
Brown
On Tim Wise's presentation to HCL staff on racism and white
privilege.
Questions HCL's commitment to diversity when the subject headings
on
these topics will be replaced by LCSH.
May 22, 2002
Press Release from Sanford Berman
Why
Destroy the Hennepin County Library Catalog and Authority Files?
May 24, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Judith Friedrich
HCL Bibliographic Services Librarian
June 20, 2002
Recommends a new
subject heading,
"Intelligent Design"
Which is a new term used by the religious right instead of Creationism.
from Sanford Berman to Nancy Perron
On
the progress of the licensing agreement of the HCL bibliographic catalog
database and Authority File.
September 27, 2002
Letter from Sanford Berman to Shelia S.
Intner
A Response to her article:
Can Libraryland Thrive Without
Hennepin County Library's
Subject Authorities
Technicalities
(May/June 2002)
September 27, 2002
From Sanford Berman to the Minneapolis
Star Tribune about classical music.
Sandy says...
"Effective tomorrow, October 7th, it will no longer be possible
to search the HCL online catalog under the subject CLASSICAL MUSIC
....because HCL replaced the catalog with an LCSH catalog that does
not use that heading."
October 6, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Nancy Perron of
Hennepin County Library
Unanswered communications
Contracted out
reference service
Discarded Books
Novelist
HCL database/authority
file
October 12, 2002
HCL and Novelist
Reports a "new business relationship" between HCL and Novelist.
Novelist is the Readers Advisory database which uses HCL
subject headings for fiction.
"Although HCL will not longer send monthly update to EBSCO
we will continue to receive royalties..."
HCL Staff News
November 22, 2002
Letter to HCL Periodicals Librarian
Recommends:
Arise!
Daybreak
Free Press in the Twin Cities
June
26, 2002
from Sanford Berman to the HCL Periodicals
Librarian
Recommends three Twin Cities Latino periodicals:
Latin Midwest
Nuestra Gente
El Condor
July 30, 2002
Letter to Charles Brown
Regarding HCL's 24/7 reference service
August 19, 2002
from Sanford Berman to the HCL Periodicals
Librarian
Recommends: War Times, an English/Spanish newspaper
August 28, 2002
Includes a review of War Times from the Jan-Feb 2003
Utne Reader
December 26, 2002
from Sanford Berman to HCL Periodicals
Librarian
Recommends Worldwide WAMM
September 16, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Charles Brown
Lists letters Berman sent to HCL from August 2001 - August 2002
which HCL did not answer.
September 17, 2002
Letter from Bruce Jensen (Los Angeles
Librarian) to Charles Brown.
Regarding HCL's refusal to answer
any of Berman's letters
September 30, 2002
from Nancy Perron to Sanford Berman
Regarding:
HCL's 24/7 Reference Service
Discards of library
materials
Negotiations between HCL and UIUC to provice access to the HCL
authority file and catalog.
October 7, 2002
to HCL Periodical Librarian
Recommends: The Minneapolis Liberator, a black monthly newspaper
October 11, 2002
to Rochelle Olson: 24/7 Reference Service at
HCL
Recommends using a World Almanac to answer questions.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 17, 2002
to the editor of the Edina Sun Current
On the 24/7 Ask a Librarian Reference Service
October 24, 2002
From Sanford Berman to the New York Times
Response to Collette Brooks' 10/26/2002 article: "So many books, so
little space."
Berman condemns the "epidemic of trashing, hiding or selling
historic and valuable items."
October 29, 2002
From Sanford Berman to the HCL Periodical
Librarian
Recommends MIZNA, a journal of Arab-Americana
November 7, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Nancy Perron of
Hennepin County Library
Regarding unanswered communications from
9/16/02-11/7/02 with HCL.
November 25, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Charles Brown
On thousands of library books that were tossed into the dumpsters
at
the Ridgedale library.
September 20, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Charles Brown
On the use of the term "Aged" instead of the heading from Berman's catalog,
"Seniors"
December 24, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Charles Brown
On Further Collaboration/Partnership with the Center for the American
Experiment.
December 27, 2002
Letters From Sanford Berman on Issues Stop the war on poor children
Regarding President Bush's statement about starving children in North
Korea.
Mother Warrior's Voice
Spring 2002 p.5
from Sanford Berman to the
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Stop the war on poor children
Regarding President Bush's statement about starving children in North
Korea.
February 20, 2002
Editorial
p. A12
Saying Grace
On the
proposed Minnesota state photograph: "Saying Grace"
Minneapolis Star
Tribune
March 13, 2002 p.
from Sanford Berman to American Jewish
World
About a Minnesota Jews for a Just Peace advertisement.
American Jewish World
May 7, 2002
from Sanford Berman to the Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Mentions websites with a diversity of views on the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
June 25, 2002
p.
from Sanford Berman to Rory Litwin, Al
Kagan, Ann Sparanese, Yvonne Farley
Regarding ALA's "One Voice"
Statement
What IS worth pursuing is the continuing ability of SRRT to
pass resolutions
and make statements, to share those expressions beyond SRRT,
and to remain within ALA.
July 24, 2002
To Jeffrey Wirth, owner of the Grand
Hotel Minneapolis
About a boycott of his hotel due to no contact with
hotel workers.
August 2, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Atheists for Human
Rights
Christian Zionists' Goals
Atheists for Human Rights
Vol 1 No 7 October 2002
from Sanford Berman to the Edina Sun
Current
Will Greens' votes be reciprocated?
October 24, 2002
p.6A
also to Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 6, 2002
The Selling of Hennepin
County Library
Press Release
January 4, 2002
(and)
Daybreak: your local Anarchist Newspaper
Issue #2
Spring 2002 p.1,3
Berman's Bag:
Harry Potter Imperiled,
Keyword Searching as Panacea,
Robin Hood's Noble Liege, and Other
Foolishness
U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian
Number 124
P. 25-31
2002
"There is no Index"
Comments on
the lack of indexing in Michael Moore's Stupid White Men
and Barbara
Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America)
August 8, 2002
and
American Libraries
November 2002 p.39
Sandy Berman on acquisition of Spanish
Language Newspapers
Sandy Berman Award honors Latino outreach
specialist
SOL (Spanish in our libraries) 78
September 5, 2002
Berman's Bag: No More Shushing: Library Staff
and Users Speak (Part 2)
U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian
122
p.14-19
2002
Berman's Bag: No More Shushing: Library Staff
and Users Speak (Part 3)
U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian
123
p.26-28
2002
AWARDS
2002 Sandy Berman Social Responsibility AwardLiberating Information: Radical Librarians
Shelve the Status Quo
Profiles several librarians including
Berman.
by Alana Kumbier
Punk Planet
no. 52
Nov/Dec 2002
p.86-90
Alternative Library Literature: A Biennial
Anthology
ed. Sanford Berman and James P. Danky
2000-2001
Final
Edition
Media in Review: Propaganda
Panel
with Sandy Berman, editor and librarian
Janet Bussey, media specialist,
Green Party, Minneapolis
Mary Shepard media activist
Tom Eland,
librarian MCTC
Feb 27, 2002
Altera
Vista Video
Videos of Berman's presentations at
the
Washington / Oregon 2002 Library Associations Conference
Association of Library and Information Science Students (ALISS)
April,
2002
Libraries and Censorship
Atheist
Alliance International (MN)
June 21, 2002
How Librarians are Censored
Atheist
Alliance International (MN)
June 21, 2002
Wild in the Stacks
Berman is
interviewed by Chris Dodge for the Utne Reader
July/August
2002.
Profile: Sandy Berman
by Bob Cahil
Arise
Fall 2002
p.21
In which Berman says...
"It
seems like a destiny to continue. It's constructive agitation, being propelled
by principals
where you feel like there are things to do and time permitting
you have to do them."
Cataloging Crisis at the Library of
Congress
Statement of the Library of Congress Professional Guild
AFSCME Local 2910
Before the Committee on appropriations subcommittee on
legislative branch appropriations
U.S. House of Representatives
"While cataloging was once one of the Library's crown jewels, a
world-renowned
operation, now we can no longer afford to perform quality
cataloging because of
insufficient professional staff."
May 1, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Recommends Mountain Top Removal Mining as a subject heading
June
26, 2002
from Tom Yee to Sanford Berman
Mountaintop Removal Mining will become a new Library of Congress Subject
Heading
August 12, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
More
warrant for Intelligent Design
August 14, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
More
useage examples for Intelligent Design
August 18, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Sends further warrant to establish the subject heading:
ANARCHA-FEMINISM
October
11, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Recommends new subject heading: Intelligent Design
October 21,2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Recommends new subject headings:
Student Antisweatshop movement and
Sweatfree Products
November 8, 2002
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Recommends new subject heading cross references:
MTR mining for
Mountaintop removal mining
Students--social responsibility for Student
Antisweatshop movement
November 25, 2002
from Fred Hay to Sanford Berman
Hay thanks Berman for inspiring him to become "SACO trained."
reports that he succeeded in getting LC to: "deauthorize the
offensive
"Mountain whites" and to use instead "Appalacians (People)."
Not dated
from Sanford Berman to Tom Yee
Sends more information for establishing "Pseudoscience" as a subject
heading
December 18, 2002
Intellectual Freedom Manual 6th Edition.
Compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA.
College and
Research Libraries
vol 63 no 6
November 2002
p. 581
Rally draws large crowd
Numerous
reasons attract protestors to day long
rally in Cloquet, Duluth
In a vocal but peaceful rally that began in front of
the Wal-Mart
store in Cloquet, protesters denounced the
company for its use of cheap
labor.
Cloquet Journal
Thursday October 10, 2002.