<div dir="ltr">Here is a more direct take action link:  <a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/make-a-call?2&engagementId=204394">http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/make-a-call?2&engagementId=204394</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Diedre Conkling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank">diedre08@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/strange-case-congress-confounding-reclassifications/" target="_blank">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/strange-case-congress-confounding-reclassifications/</a><br><br><h1 style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;font-weight:normal;font-family:BebasNeueRegular,arial,Georgia,serif;font-size:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">The strange case of Congress and the confounding (re)classifications</span></h1><p style="padding:0px 0px 5px;margin:7px 0px 10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(242,242,242);color:rgb(170,170,170);font-size:11.05px;font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">Posted by:<span> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/adameisgrau/" title="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Adam Eisgrau</a></span><span> </span><span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">May 5, 2016</span>      <span style="padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;display:inline-block">in<span> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/legislation/" rel="category tag" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(170,170,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Legislation</a></span></p><div style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">You wouldn’t think that a decision by the Library of Congress about what subject headings libraries generally should use in, for example, an online catalog would create a political flap. Then again, in Washington – like the world on the other side of Alice’s looking glass – the usual rules of, well, almost anything tend not to apply. Here’s the strange tale . . .</p><div style="padding:4px;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;float:right;line-height:18px;text-align:center;max-width:100%;width:310px;background:rgb(241,241,241) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><p style="padding:0px;margin:5px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></p></div><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">In late March of this year, after an extensive process consistent with long-standing library principles and practice, the Library of Congress routinely proposed updating almost a hundred out-moded subject headings. Two announced changes would replace the subject heading classification “Aliens” with “Noncitizens,” and “Illegal aliens” with two headings: “Noncitizens” and/or “Unauthorized immigration.” Similar, but not identical, changes previously had been<a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2016/03/29/library-of-congress-to-replace-term-illegal-aliens/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">requested by Dartmouth College</a><span> </span>and also were endorsed by a formal<span> </span><a href="https://alair.ala.org/bitstream/handle/11213/1301/%2001-12-16-CD34.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ALA resolution</a><span> </span>adopted at the 2016 Midwinter Meeting in Boston.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">In mid-April, however, third-term Tennessee Representative Diane Black (R-TN6) introduced a bill that would bar the Library from making those specific changes. No reason was given, but the bill’s title provides a clue.<span> </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4926/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">H.R. 4926</a>, the “Stopping Partisan Policy at the Library of Congress Act,” had 20 cosponsors on introduction and they now number 33. All are Members of the House majority. None sit on the Committee on House Administration, to which the bill was referred. The bill also has the<span> </span><a href="http://www.fairus.org/_blog/take-action/post/stop-the-library-of-congress-from-pandering-to-pro-amnesty-groups/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">backing of the Federation for American Immigration Reform</a><span> </span>(F.A.I.R.), which described the Library’s reclassification proposal as “blatant capitulation to political correctness” and “pandering to pro-amnesty groups.”</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">Four days after H.R. 4926’s introduction, the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee adopted language on April 17 that would, in effect, countermand the Library’s professional judgments and interdict the proposed reclassifications noted above. (The Report adopted by the Subcommittee states: “To the extent practicable, the Committee instructs the Library to maintain certain subject headings that reflect terminology used in title 8, United States Code.”) The full House Appropriations Committee will meet in mid-May and has the power to undo the Subcommittee’s action.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none">On April 28, the Presidents of ALA and ALCTS (ALA’s division of members expert in cataloging and classification)<span> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/advleg/federallegislation/04-28-16%20Letter%20to%20House%20Appropriations%20Committee%20Requesting%20Removal%20of%20LC%20Classification%20Language.pdf" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">wrote to the Committee’s leaders and members</a><span> </span>asking that they do so. They emphasized that the Library’s reclassification proposals were<span> </span><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/04-29-16-LC-Appropriations-Issue-Talking-Points.pdf" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none;color:rgb(77,132,179);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">solidly grounded</a><span> </span>in long-standing principles and practices of professional cataloging, recent history, and were manifestly non-political. Accordingly, the presidents called upon Committee members to remove the Subcommittee’s language above from any Legislative Branch appropriations bill that they consider when the House returns from recess next week. The Committee could meet as early as May 17 to consider the bill and this issue.</p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none"><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/strange-case-congress-confounding-reclassifications/" target="_blank">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/05/strange-case-congress-confounding-reclassifications/</a></p><p style="padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border:0px none"><b>TAKE ACTION</b>: Go to  <a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home" target="_blank">http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home</a>  and send an email to Congress.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></p></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;margin-top:10px;outline:medium none;list-style:outside none none;border-width:1px 0px 0px;border-style:solid none none;border-top:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);clear:both;min-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Droid Sans",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;fo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