2002

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

HCL General

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 Minnesota Women's Press
Recommends

Still Doing It: Women and Men Over 60 Write About Their Sexuality
Minnesota Women's Press
June 20, 2002
published in the Jul 17-30 ed. of MWP

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 the American Jewish World
AIPAC views not for all
American Jewish World
July? 2002

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 Senators Mark Dayton on Paul Wellstone
and Representative Martin Olav Sabo
Regarding the Ninth Circuit Court Ruling that declared the words
"Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance "unconstitutional."
August 6, 2002

from Sanford Berman to the American Jewish World
What they really want

About Christian Fundamentalists' attitude toward Jews.
American Jewish World
August 19, 2002
August 30, 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

from Sanford Berman to the Editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Clearly, the major terrorist threat to America is poverty.
Personally, I will no longer vote for any politician who doesn't
support affordable housing, living wage laws, univeral single-payer
health care.

Articles

The Selling of Hennepin County Library

Press Release
January 4, 2002
(and)
Daybreak: your local Anarchist Newspaper
Issue #2
Spring 2002 p.1,3

Around and About: Fascism in the Library

Sandy Says:

"The most effectively "banned books" in America are not the 'challenged", invariably mainstream titles
widely publicized by the American Library Association.

Instead, they're the works produced by the diverse, independent and unorthodox presses listed in APBNA.
No book burning zealot has the chance to "challenge" the presence of alternative press materials on library shelves, simply because too many such volumes aren't there in the first place.

They're not selected, not bought, not catalogued, not loaned, not displayed. But it doesn't need to be that way. The profession can stop murdering, its own noble Library Bill of Rights by actively identifying and collecting the varied, enlightening and sometimes unsettling stuff issued by non-corporate publishers."

MATCH: A Journal of Ethical Anarchism
Number 98
Summer 2002 p.18

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 Award

Maria Menendez de Moschel
MLA (Minnesota Library Association) Newsletter
Vol 29 no 5
September/October 2002 Press Release July 10, 2002
from AFSCME 2864 and AFSCME 2822

Articles About

Liberating 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

Books

Alternative Library Literature: A Biennial Anthology
ed. Sanford Berman and James P. Danky
2000-2001
Final Edition

Videos

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

Interviews

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."

Letters to the Library of Congress

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

Reviews written

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

Protests

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.