Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship, Building Resilence: LGBTQ Services and Collections in Public, School and Post-Secondary Libraries

Schrader, Alvin Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship, Building Resilence: LGBTQ Services and Collections in Public, School and Post-Secondary Libraries., 2009 . In British Columbia Libraries Conference 2009, Burnaby (Canada), 16-18 April 2009. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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How effectively are librarians in public, school, and academic libraries serving sexual minority communities, allies, and queer-positive people everywhere? What are our social responsibilities and legal obligations to library users who identify as LGBTQ – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, trans-identified, two-spirited, and queer or questioning individuals? Are there different mandates among the three publicly-funded library sectors? This presentation explores library policy issues surrounding services and access to print and Web resources for and about LGBTQ Canadians, especially Canadian youth with limited resources, and particularly those in rural areas and smaller urban centres. It also identifies some of the myths, stereotypes, and barriers to inclusive collections, and raises questions about what happens to Web access to information about sexual minorities when commercial filters are installed in libraries.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Library Policy, Collections, Stereotyping, Print, World Wide Web, Filtering, Censorship, Access
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > EF. Censorship. A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
Depositing user:	Imma Subirats Coll
Date deposited:	19 Jul 2009
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:14
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13321

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