Full Description
Building upon the legacy of Gay and Lesbian Library Service (1990, "invaluable"--Library Journal; "recommended"--Booklist), this current anthology brings the discussion into a 21st century context by broadening the community base served and by examining the role of the Internet and Web 2.0 in libraries and archives. Many chapters include personal accounts of individuals' experiences to illustrate the importance of library services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer/questioning users. Specific topics include: library services provided to LGBTIQ youth; collection assessment and the process of gauging user satisfaction; the classification of LGBTIQ resources in the Dewey Decimal Classification system; attempts to restrict access to LGBTIQ resources through challenges, censorship, and Internet filtering; and workplace concerns of LGBTIQ library workers.
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Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Ellen Greenblatt)
Selective Glossary of LGBTIQ Terms (Ellen Greenblatt)
Section One: New Communities and Connections
Library Resources and Services for Bisexuals (Jessica L. Howard)
Intersex Resources in Libraries (David Cameron Strachan and Jim Van Buskirk)
Libraries and the Transgender Community (Michael Waldman)
The Internet and LGBTIQ Communities (Ellen Greenblatt)
Profiles
It's Not Monopoly: Gender Role Explorations in Online Environments (K. Fisher)
Making a Difference (Jim Van Buskirk)
OutHistory.org: Fostering Community-Created LGBTQ Histories (Lauren J. Gutterman)
Section Two: Libraries—Contexts and Venues
LGBTIQ Issues in Public Libraries (Catherine Ritchie and Dale McNeill)
School Libraries Can Make a Difference (Arla A. Jones)
LGBTIQ Users and Collections in Academic Libraries (K. L. Clarke)
Queering Libraries and Classrooms: Strategies to Build Inclusive Collections and Services for Sexual Minority and Gender Variant Youth (Alvin M. Schrader and Kristopher Wells)
Profiles
Quatrefoil Library: The Next Generation (Karen P. Hogan)
San Francisco Public Library's ìOut at the Library: Celebrating the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Centerî (Jim Van Buskirk)
Section Three: Archives—Contexts and Venues
How Queer ìPack Ratsî and Activist Archivists Saved Our History: An Overview of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Archives, 1970-2008 (Aimee Brown)
ìIt Was Only Supposed to Be Twenty Interviewsî: GLBTIQ Oral History as Librarianship—The Under the Rainbow Collection (Tami Albin)
Now on Exhibit: Bringing Out Materials from LGBTIQ Archives (Jennifer K. Snapp-Cook)
Profiles
From a Vision to a Reality: The Birth of the Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives (Lisa A. Cohen)
IHLIA—Making Information on LGBTIQ Issues in the Past and the Present Accessible and Visible (Jack van der Wel)
Inside the Files of This Has No Name (tatiana de la tierra)
Section Four: Collection Development Barriers to Selecting Materials about Sexual and Gender Diversity (Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt)
One for the Road: Personal Reflections on LGBTIQ Literature (James V. Carmichael, Jr.)
Meeting the Needs of LGBTIQ Library Users and Their Librarians: A Study of User Satisfaction and LGBTIQ Collection Development in Academic Libraries (Melissa Adler)
Profiles
Shoulders to Stand On (Peter Bernier)
ìThe Journal of Recordî: The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide (Martha E. Stone)
Section Five: Bibliographic Access
Interfiling Intersex: How Dewey Classifies Intersex in Theory and in Practice (Ben Christensen)
The Treatment of LGBTIQ Concepts in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (Ellen Greenblatt)
Queer as Folksonomies (Analisa Ornelas)
Profiles
The LGBT Life Thesaurus Creation Experience (Linda Rudell-Betts)
LGBTIQ History Starts Here: Indigenous/Native Terminology (Karen Vigneault)
Section Six: Censorship of LGBTIQ Resources Censorship of Children's and Young Adult Books in Schools and Public Libraries (Laura Reiman and Ellen Greenblatt)
LGBTIQ Teens—Plugged In and Unfiltered: How Internet Filtering Impairs Construction of Online Communities, Identity Formation, and Access to Health Information (David Brian Holt)
Profile
Responding to a Challenge: A Letter from a Public Library Director—Uncle Bobby's Wedding (James LaRue)
Section Seven: Professional Concerns—Workplace Issues, Library Education, Organizations, and Networking LGBTIQ Librarians and Workplace Issues (Rachel Wexelbaum)
Integrating LGBTIQ Representations Across the Library and Information Science Curriculum: A Strategic Framework for Student-Centered Interventions (Bharat Mehra)
When Collection Development Leads to Staff Development: The Transgender Resource Collection (Bleue J. Benton and Sharon Grimm)
Profiles
The History of the GLBT Round Table (Anne L. Moore)
LAGAR (Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable) (Mary Caldera)
HQ76.3/New England: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Librarians and Library Workers (John DeSantis)
About the Contributors)
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