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Volume 8, Issue 4
1 January 1988
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Review Article| January 01 1988

Gypsies in Our Libraries Available to Purchase

Ian Hancock
Ian Hancock
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, is the U.S. Delegate to the United Nations for the World Romani Union and author of The Pariah Syndrome: an Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5592
Print ISSN: 0160-4953
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Collection Building (1988) 8 (4): 31–36.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023231

When the Library of Congress (LC) Subject Cataloging Division defended its decision last year to continue using “Gypsy” as its principal heading on the grounds that it was better known than the more correct “Rom,” it unwittingly demonstrated its own prejudices against my people.

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