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RBMS Prejudicial Works terms

This is an ongoing experiment to record cataloging decisions on the application of RBMS Prejudicial Works terms. When you come across a work that makes you consider one of the terms, you can log your evidence and your decision. Decisions need not be final or objective. This is just to look back on subjective and personal cataloger’s judgement and determine if there are patterns which could inform future best practices for our collections.

Title	MMS ID	Possible term	Evidence	Decision	Cataloger

Title	MMS ID	Possible term	Evidence	Decision	Cataloger
Connect the dots	99157830182603941	Anti-Catholic works	“…the Catholic Church is a killing oppressive force that must be stopped.” Page 21 “I’m not saying I hate all the people who practice such death-dealing religions.” Page 12	Did not apply. I read the work as critique and not prejudice?	JT
Battle for normality	99156401971403941	Homophobic works	dedicated “to men and women tormented by homosexual emotions who do not want to live as homosexuals, who want constructive help and support”	Applied	EL
Stand committed	99158082403603941	Xenophobic works	The world is out of joint and thoroughly sick of it. It almost seems that this civilization, radical and conservative, left and right, modern and old school, is sick unto death. Here in America we are fortunate in having the disease in its incipience... All that is most precious in our Anglo-American culture, irrecoverable if lost, all that it rests on and should produce, hangs in the balance." Page [1].	Applied	LS
Behind the lace curtains of the YWCA	99155857171403941	Anti-communist works	subtitle is “a report on the extent and nature of infiltration by communist, socialist and other left wing elements, and the resultant red complexion of propaganda disseminated in, by and through the Young Woman's Christian Association” it is pretty much the definition of anti-communist propaganda	Applied	Erin