Selective glossary of LGBTIQ terms / Ellen Greenblatt -- Library resources and services for bisexuals / Jessica L. Howard -- Intersex resources for libraries / David Cameron Strachan and Jim Van Buskirk -- Libraries and the transgender community / Michael Waldman -- The Internet and LBGTIQ communities / Ellen Greenblatt -- 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 -- LBGTIQ 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 -- Quatrefoil library : the next generation / Karen P. Hogan -- San Francisco Public Library's "Out at the library--celebrating the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center" / Jim Van Buskirk -- 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 -- "It was only supposed to be twenty interviews" : 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 -- 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 -- Barriers to selecting materials about sexual and gender diversity / Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt -- One for the road : personal reflections on LBGTIQ 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 -- Shoulders to stand on / Peter Bernier -- The journal of record : the Gay & lesbian review/worldwide / Martha E. Stone -- 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 -- The LGBT life thesaurus creation experience / Linda Rudell-Betts -- LGBTIQ history starts here : indigenous/native terminology / Karen Vigneault -- 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 -- Responding to a challenge : a letter from a public library director : Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue -- 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 -- 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.
Summary:
"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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.