Abstract
This chapter focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and explores how the concept of deconstruction can be used to identify and subvert cultural biases within bibliographic classification and description. In particular, it discusses how library subject headings, cataloging rules, and classification schemes limit the meaning of textual artifacts in ways that favor some meanings or interpretations over others and how these limitations could be made more permeable by adopting technologies (such as tagging, social bookmarking, and thesaurus mapping) that create spaces for traditionally marginalized discourses.