Daring to find our names : the search for lesbigay library history / edited by James V. Carmichael, Jr.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [247]-251.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Makeover without a mirror--a face for lesbigay library history / James V. Carmichael, Jr. -- Methodological issues in research with lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals / Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford -- A lesbigay gender perplex: sexual stereotyping and professional ambiguity in librarianship / Christine L. Williams -- Biographical research on lesbigay subjects: editing the letters of Lillian Smith / Margaret Rose Gladney -- A closet curtained by circumspection: doing research on the McCarthy Era purge of gays from the Library of Congress / Louise S. Robbins -- Queer histories/queer librarians: the historical development of a gay monograph / Norman G. Kester -- Gays in library land: the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association: the first sixteen years / Barbara Gittings -- A personal task force scrapbook: "Incunabula," 1971-1972 and after / photographs by Kay Tobin Lahusen with captions by Barbara Gittings -- Reclaiming a founding / Israel D. Fishman -- Librarians as cultural enforcers / Janet Cooper -- The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association: a chronology of activities, 1970-1995 / Cal Gough -- Archivists, activists, and scholars: creating a queer history / Brenda J. Marston -- Building "a home of our own": the construction of the Lesbian Herstory Archives / Polly J. Thistlethwaite -- An accidental institution: how and why a Gay and Lesbian Archives? / Jim Kepner -- Safe harbour: the origin and growth of the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand / Phil Parkinson and Chris Parkin -- Destination library / Donald H. Forbes -- Social responsibility and acceptable prejudice / Richard L. Huffine -- Out publicly: the professional and personal of gay public librarianship / John A. Barnett.