Serving LGBTIQ library and archives users
Subtitle: essays on outreach, service, collections and access
By: edited by Ellen Greenblatt
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780786448944
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Libraries; Libraries and sexual minorities; Bibliography; Special collections; Archives; Sexual minorities; Electronic information resources
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selective glossary of LGBTIQ terms / Ellen Greenblatt; title: Library resources and services for bisexuals / Jessica L. Howard; title: Intersex resources for libraries / David Cameron Strachan and Jim Van Buskirk; title: Libraries and the transgender community / Michael Waldman; title: The Internet and LBGTIQ communities / Ellen Greenblatt; title: It's not monopoly : gender role explorations in online environments / K. Fisher; title: Making a difference / Jim Van Buskirk; title: Outhistory.org : fostering community-created LGBTQ histories / Lauren J. Gutterman; title: LBGTIQ issues in public libraries / Catherine Ritchie and Dale McNeill; title: School libraries can make a difference / Arla A. Jones; title: LGTIQ users and collections in academic libraries / K.L. Clarke; title: Queering libraries and classrooms : strategies to build inclusive collections and services / Alvin M. Schrader and Kristopher Wells; title: Quatrefoil library : the next generation / Karen P. Hogan; title: San Francisco Public Library's "Out at the library; title: celebrating the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center" / Jim Van Buskirk; title: How queer "pack rats" and activist archivists saved our history : an overview of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) archives, 1970-2008 / Aimee Brown; title: "It was only supposed to be twenty interviews" : GLBTIQ oral history as librarianship, the Under the Rainbow collection / Tami Albin; title: Now on exhibit : bringing out materials from LGBTIQ archives / Jennifer K. Snapp-Cook; title: From a vision to a reality : the birth of the Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives / Lisa A. Cohen; title: IHLIA : making information on LGBTIQ issues in the past and the present accessible and visible / Jack van der Wel; title: Inside the files of 'this has no name' / tatiana de la tierra; title: Barriers to selecting materials about sexual and gender diversity / Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt; title: For the road : personal reflections on LBGTIQ literature / James V. Carmichael, Jr; title: Meeting the needs of LGBTIQ library users and their librarians : a study of user satisfaction and LGBTQ collection development in academic libraries / Melissa Adler; title: Shoulders to stand on / Peter Bernier; title: The journal of record : the Gay & lesbian review/worldwide / Martha E. Stone; title: Interfiling intersex: how Dewey classifies intersex in theory and practice / Ben Christensen; title: The treatment of LBGTIQ concepts in the Library of Congress subject headings / Ellen Greenblatt; title: Queer as folksonomies / Analisa Ornelas; title: The LGBT life thesaurus creation experience / Linda Rudell-Betts; title: LGBITQ history starts here : indigenous/native terminology / Karen Vigneault; title: Censorship of children's and young adult books in schools and public libraries / Laura Reiman and Ellen Greenblatt; title: LGBTIQ teens; title: plugged in and unfiltered : how Internet filtering impairs construction of online communities, identity formation, and access to health information / David Brian Holt; title: Responding to a challenge : a letter from a public library director : Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue; title: LGBTIQ librarians and workplace issues / Rachel Wexelbaum; title: Integrating LGBTIQ representations across the library and information science curriculum : a strategic framework for student-centered interventions / Bharat Mehra; title: When collection development leads to staff development : the transgender resource collection / Bleue J. Benton and Sharon Grimm; title: The history of the GLBT Round Table / Anne L. Moore; title: LAGAR (Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable) / Mary Caldera; title: HQ76.3/New England : lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered librarians and library workers / John DeSantis.