{"id":73,"date":"2009-01-06T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:43:00","slug":"serving_lesbian_gay_bisexual_transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/serving_lesbian_gay_bisexual_transgender\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin, Hillias J. and Murdock, James R. <em>Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. <\/em>New York: Neal-Schuman, 2007. 267 p. ISBN: 978-1555705664. Hardcover. $55.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opening the pages of this book is like slipping on rainbow-tinted goggles and returning to library school. Murdock and Martin offer suggestions for providing materials and services for LGBTQ, or as the book calls them, &#8220;Queer&#8221; teens.<\/p>\n<p>This book is divided into two parts. Part one contains information about queer teens&#8217; interactions with the library and librarians. The first reviews research about queer patrons and their information and reading needs. The second, delves into reference services to learn about conducting reference interviews with closeted and non-closeted queers as well as teens who are interested in learning about their queer friends and family members. Then, the focus is on the integration of LGBTQ materials into a balanced collection and building a defense against challenges. Finally, there is a section on incorporating LGBTQ themes into any library&#8217;s programming and services including libraries in conservative and liberal communities and schools.<\/p>\n<p>Part two offers specific examples of materials and programs. The first section is an annotated bibliography of 50 materials including fiction, nonfiction, periodicals, movies and music followed by additional suggestions of good materials for different collections and user needs. The list is primarily fiction titles and could have been enhanced with titles of materials for use in student projects such as information on gay issues. The final chapters include sample book talks and a continuum of 18 LGBTQ-themed programs ready for librarians to include in their services to young adults.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great resource for any librarian working with a young adult population. Although it primarily targets public library services, there is enough information provided for school librarians as well, and would be a great resource for grad students in a Library and Information Studies program.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Sharon Flesher<br \/>\nLibrary Media Specialist<br \/>\nNashua South High School [NH]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin, Hillias J. and Murdock, James R. Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2007. 267 p. ISBN: 978-1555705664. Hardcover. $55.00. Opening the pages of this book is like slipping on rainbow-tinted goggles and returning to library school. Murdock and Martin offer suggestions for providing materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"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\/73"}],"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\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}