Out behind the desk
Subtitle: workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians
By: edited by Tracy Nectoux
Series: Litwin Books/Library Juice Press series on gender and sexuality in librarianship -- no. 1
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Duluth, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781936117031
Subjects: Gay librarians; Bisexual librarians; Employment; Transgender librarians
Description: "An anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. A broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities are represented, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A small town start / Ryan Donovan; title: Sexuality, students, and disclosure / Johnnie Gray; title: Girl meets girl, girl works with girl, girl falls in love with girl / Brenda Linares and Emily Vardell; title: It's okay to be gay : a librarian's journey to acceptance and activism / Jason D. Phillips; title: Out of the frying pan : coming out as a culinary school librarian / Rachel Wexelbaum; title: Gay librarians on the tenure track : following the yellow brick road? / Paul Blobaum; title: Out all over : giving voice to lgbts on campus / Donna Braquet & Roger Weaver; title: Managing outside the closet : on being an openly gay library administrator / Matthew Ciszek; title: Homophobia in San Antonio / David Allen White; title: Leather librarianship / John Bradford; title: Gender changer / Jim Van Buskirk; title: The secret life of bis : on not quite being out and not quite fitting in / BWS Johnson; title: Pronoun police : a guide to transitioning at your local library / K.R. Roberto; title: Out lines : an lgbt career in perspective / Robert B. Ridinger; title: Outness and social networks : from closet to container store / Lia Friedman; title: The challenges of coming out and being out in historical perspective / Richard Hulser; title: Curating william inge / Marcel LaFlamme; title: Activism in colorado : how life and librarianship bloomed in the desert west / Chris Hartman; title: In and out behind the desk, in and out of the country / Kimberli Morris; title: "Do they know?" : a gay librarian at a catholic university / Martin Garnar; title: All about my job hunt : the diary of a wannabe librarian / Andy Foskey; title: Maria t. accardi / Pride and Paranoia @ Your Library; title: When is the personal not professional? : an exploration / Kellian Clink; title: Out in the classroom / Ann L. O'Neill; title: Taking the homosexual highroad / Nicola Price; title: Patricia's child, patrick's penis, & the sex of reference : a lesbian librarian's log of perverse patronage / Shawn(ta) Smith; title: On being as if : imagination and gay librarianship / William A. Thompson.