Overview

Libraries are at the heart of many of the communities they serve. Increasingly, it is important for them to adjust to serve minority groups, including LGBTQ+ communities. This collection presents original scholarship on the emerging directions of advocacy and community engagement in LGBTQ+ librarianship. With contributions from library and information professionals, this volume explores how librarians and library professionals can embrace a more proactive role as social justice advocates, and help promote fairness, justice, equality, equity, and activism on behalf of LGBTQ+ people. Starting within the library space, the volume offers an introduction to terminology and resources around LGBTQ+ information, before moving on to explore examples of how LGBTQ+ librarianship can adopt innovative approaches to better serve their patrons in select settings around the world. Including case studies on health services, historical archives, and LGBTQ+ homelessness, this collection dispels misperceptions and myths surrounding social justice research and is vital for any researcher or practitioner interested in supporting evolving communities.

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Author:   Bharat Mehra (The University of Tennessee, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   45
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9781787564749

ISBN 10:   1787564746
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface; Jessa Lingel Part I: EMERGING SCOPE   1. Introduction; Bharat Mehra  2. What is ""LGBTQ+"" Information? Interdisciplinary Connections; Bharat Mehra  3. LGBTQ+ Terminology, Scenarios and Strategies, and Relevant Web-Based Resources in the 21st Century: A Glimpse; Donna Braquet  Part II: NEW ROLES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY LIBRARIAN  4. Health Sciences Librarians in the Field: Pioneers for LGBTQ+ Health; Gregg A. Stevens, Tony Nguyen, Martin Morris, and Emily Vardell  5. Archiving History and the Educational Mission in Chicago's The Legacy Project: Challenges and Opportunities for LIS; Gabriel Gomez   6. Coming Out of the Closet: Librarian Advocacy to Advance LGBTQ+ Wikipedia Engagement; Rachel Wexelbaum  Part III: RECOGNIZING THE NEEDS OF EMERGING COMMUNITIES  7. Finding the ""B"" in LGBTQ+: Collections and Practices that Support the Bisexual and Pansexual Communities; Melinda F. Brown and Deborah L. Lilton  8. Lines of Sight and Knowledge: Possibilities and Actualities of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Youth in the Library; Jeanie Austin  9. The Role of Public Libraries in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness; Julie Ann Winkelstein Part IV: CREATING COMMUNITIES COMING TOGETHER  10. Beyond Dewey: Creating an LGBTQ+ Classification System at the LGBTQ Center of Durham; Kai Ewing and LGBTQ Center of Durham 11. Bringing the Trans and the Local Community Together: The 'Trans Identities and Gender' Project; Eric Sancho Brú, Ian Bermúdez Raventós, Paul McIntyre Part V: LOOKING AHEAD: EMERGING QUESTIONS  12. Moving into the Mainstream: Is That Somewhere We Want to Go in the United Kingdom?; John Vincent"

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Librarians, academics, and activists provide a common vocabulary and set of strategies to aid the work of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer librarians and patrons. They also provide a form of solidarity and support, a multi-faceted message of encouragement and enthusiasm for the work that libraries and librarians can do and are doing in the everyday work of librarianship. Their approaches are emerging scope, new roles and new technologies for the 21st-century librarian, recognizing the needs of emerging communities, creating communities coming together, and looking ahead: emerging questions. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) *

Author Information

Bharat Mehra is EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice, and Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. His research promotes diversity and social justice through information and communication technologies to empower minority and underserved populations to make meaningful changes in their everyday lives.

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