Reading Spaces

Sex & The Library: Progressive Librarian: London Chapter Event

Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 2:30. Visual Arts Centre 100.

CFP: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader

An exciting call for papers for an edited collection by Library Juice Press, and editors Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty. See the full call

 

Research Survey for LGBTQ people on libraries

See below for details on a project that seeks to understand ways in which to better connect LGBTQ communities with their libraries. Posted with permission.

My name is Jennifer Draper and I work for the Pickering Public Library as a Librarian. I am doing an online survey to find out how the LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer)  community feels about their public library. The results are going to be presented at the Ontario Library Association Conference in 2011.  I want to know how the public library can better serve the LGBTQ community (my community!), and even market it's services. In some cases small/medium town libraries don't think they have anyone from our community living there. Most of the people I know came from small towns, so I am aiming to set the record..er...straight.  I am also looking for people to interview on camera about their library experiences. So if you are interested in talking about your library experiences, good or bad, please contact me at: jenniferd@picnet.org .  To take the survey go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SJSXB9C

Thanks for your time.

Jennifer Draper
Pickering Public Library
Adult Services Librarian
One, The Esplanade
Pickering, ON
L1V 6K7
905-831-6265 Ext.6256
www.picnet.org

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Queer Research Day at Western April 29

See the attached poster ( Download QRD_3 ) for Queer Research Day 2010, which takes place this Thursday, April 29, starting at 1:30pm in UC 224A. The program is pasted below.

 Program

 

1:30: Introduction and welcome

                Rob Stainton, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

1:45: "Bring Your Research out of the Closet using Scholarship@Western"

                Adrian Ho, Western Libraries

2:15 Refreshments and Posters

2:45 Panel: Bodies and Pleasures

“Queering the Body in William Blake: Towards a Hermeneutics of the ‘Bottom’”

                Elizabeth Effinger, English

"Bad Romance: Sex/Romance, the Politico-Queer and Agential Realism"

                Joshua Morrison, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research

“‘Like Joining a Sisterhood’: Public and Private Pleasure Reading in The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Female Readers”

                Jen (J.L.) Pecoskie, Library and Information Science

4:00 Panel: AIDS and Health

“The Health in Middlesex Men Matters Project: Phase One Preliminary Findings”

                Todd Coleman, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

 “Epitaphs and Epidemics: The Hermeneutics of AIDS in ‘Post-Crisis’ Discourse”

                Jeremy Greenway, English

Coming out of the video game closet?

Today, in a Globe and Mail article by Dave McGinn, a report and brief survey of gay characters in video games.

Speaking Queerly: Sexuality and Gender Research Forum: Ernie Blackmore

See below a poster for the first Speaking Queerly talk of the 2009-10 year. The speaker is Dr. Ernie Blackmore, a lecturer at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His talk is entitled  "A Voice That 'Dared Not Speak' Its Truth: Growing up Black and Queer in 1950s Sydney" and will take place on Oct 13, 2009 from 3:30 -4:30 pm in the Pride Library. All are welcome to attend.

Download Ernies talk

"Who are you calling gay?" blog by Judith Warner

This is an excellent piece on the powerful negative effects of words, of bullying, of persistent and pervasive misogyny. I wonder how teens would respond to the article?

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/who-are-you-calling-gay/