{"id":683,"date":"2012-02-14T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=683"},"modified":"2012-02-05T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T13:32:03","slug":"out-behind-the-desk-workplace-issues-for-lgbtq-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/out-behind-the-desk-workplace-issues-for-lgbtq-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Out behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians.<\/em> Ed. by Tracy Marie Nectoux. Library Juice Press, 2011. Paperback. 294p. $30.00. (Litwin Books\/Library Juice Press Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship, no. 1). ISBN: 9781936117031.<\/a><\/p>\n

This volume brings\u00a0together twenty-seven\u00a0narratives authored by twenty-nine librarians,\u00a0all of whom identify as\u00a0being part of the LGBTQ community. At least one of the six\u00a0parts–trajectories (or coming-out stories), sex and the\u00a0institution, the rest of\u00a0the rainbow (beyond L and G), coming out in time, coming out in place, and coming out in the field\u2014will hit home with any reader.<\/p>\n

Baring their souls, the authors inspire as they educate, not only on individual
\nscenarios but on the lives as LGBTQ librarians throughout the United States.<\/p>\n

Whether just starting out and searching for a type of library and environment, seeking a career change, or pondering the right time to come out LGBTQ people will benefit from this book. It covers not only the personal issues but
\nalso the history of librarianship as related to LGBTQ persons and topics, domestic partnerships, and attitudes toward LBGTQ.<\/p>\n

Similar to first person narratives in Daring to Find Our Names<\/em> edited By J. V.
\nCarmichael (Greenwood, 1998) and Liberating Minds<\/em> edited by N. G. Kester (McFarland, 1997), this is the first collection in over 10 years that\u00a0demonstrates the\u00a0changing times and attitudes not evidenced\u00a0earlier because of changes\u00a0in the past\u00a0decade.<\/p>\n

Contributors include the well-known such as Ellen Greenblatt and the unknown such as a pseudonymous legislative librarian.<\/p>\n

This is a must read for any professional collection, and would work well as additional readings for any library school course addressing diversity.<\/p>\n

Reviewer: [s.n.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians. Ed. by Tracy Marie Nectoux. Library Juice Press, 2011. Paperback. 294p. $30.00. (Litwin Books\/Library Juice Press Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship, no. 1). ISBN: 9781936117031. This volume brings\u00a0together twenty-seven\u00a0narratives authored by twenty-nine librarians,\u00a0all of whom identify as\u00a0being part of the LGBTQ community. At least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}