Daring to find our names : the search for lesbigay library history /
Daring to find our names : the search for lesbigay library history /
edited by James V. Carmichael, Jr.
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
- xiv, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Beta Phi Mu monograph series, no. 5 1041-2751 ; .
- Beta Phi Mu monograph ; no. 5. .
Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [247]-251.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Makeover without a mirror--a face for lesbigay library history / Methodological issues in research with lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals / A lesbigay gender perplex: sexual stereotyping and professional ambiguity in librarianship / Biographical research on lesbigay subjects: editing the letters of Lillian Smith / A closet curtained by circumspection: doing research on the McCarthy Era purge of gays from the Library of Congress / Queer histories/queer librarians: the historical development of a gay monograph / Gays in library land: the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association: the first sixteen years / A personal task force scrapbook: "Incunabula," 1971-1972 and after / Reclaiming a founding / Librarians as cultural enforcers / The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association: a chronology of activities, 1970-1995 / Archivists, activists, and scholars: creating a queer history / Building "a home of our own": the construction of the Lesbian Herstory Archives / An accidental institution: how and why a Gay and Lesbian Archives? / Safe harbour: the origin and growth of the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand / Destination library / Social responsibility and acceptable prejudice / Out publicly: the professional and personal of gay public librarianship / James V. Carmichael, Jr. -- Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford -- Christine L. Williams -- Margaret Rose Gladney -- Louise S. Robbins -- Norman G. Kester -- Barbara Gittings -- photographs by Kay Tobin Lahusen with captions by Barbara Gittings -- Israel D. Fishman -- Janet Cooper -- Cal Gough -- Brenda J. Marston -- Polly J. Thistlethwaite -- Jim Kepner -- Phil Parkinson and Chris Parkin -- Donald H. Forbes -- Richard L. Huffine -- John A. Barnett. Introduction:
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Gay librarians--History.
Lesbian librarians--History.
Gay librarians--History.--United States
Lesbian librarians--History.--United States
Libraries and gays--History.
Libraries and lesbians--History.
Libraries and gays--History.--United States
Libraries and lesbians--History.--United States
Z682.4.G39 / D37 1998
020/.86/63
Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [247]-251.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Makeover without a mirror--a face for lesbigay library history / Methodological issues in research with lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals / A lesbigay gender perplex: sexual stereotyping and professional ambiguity in librarianship / Biographical research on lesbigay subjects: editing the letters of Lillian Smith / A closet curtained by circumspection: doing research on the McCarthy Era purge of gays from the Library of Congress / Queer histories/queer librarians: the historical development of a gay monograph / Gays in library land: the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association: the first sixteen years / A personal task force scrapbook: "Incunabula," 1971-1972 and after / Reclaiming a founding / Librarians as cultural enforcers / The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association: a chronology of activities, 1970-1995 / Archivists, activists, and scholars: creating a queer history / Building "a home of our own": the construction of the Lesbian Herstory Archives / An accidental institution: how and why a Gay and Lesbian Archives? / Safe harbour: the origin and growth of the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand / Destination library / Social responsibility and acceptable prejudice / Out publicly: the professional and personal of gay public librarianship / James V. Carmichael, Jr. -- Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford -- Christine L. Williams -- Margaret Rose Gladney -- Louise S. Robbins -- Norman G. Kester -- Barbara Gittings -- photographs by Kay Tobin Lahusen with captions by Barbara Gittings -- Israel D. Fishman -- Janet Cooper -- Cal Gough -- Brenda J. Marston -- Polly J. Thistlethwaite -- Jim Kepner -- Phil Parkinson and Chris Parkin -- Donald H. Forbes -- Richard L. Huffine -- John A. Barnett. Introduction:
0313299633 9780313299636
97048579
Gay librarians--History.
Lesbian librarians--History.
Gay librarians--History.--United States
Lesbian librarians--History.--United States
Libraries and gays--History.
Libraries and lesbians--History.
Libraries and gays--History.--United States
Libraries and lesbians--History.--United States
Z682.4.G39 / D37 1998
020/.86/63