In the twenty-first century, LGBTQ+ people, cultures, and histories worldwide have become more visible in the public sphere, the media, and in cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums. At the same time, multiple barriers exist in making information resources and cultural artifacts for the LGBTQ+ community accessible. Traditional academic notions of "notability", "peer review", "scholarly work", and "credible source" also impact representation of diverse voices, communities, and forms of cultural production and collection of such works among LGBTQ+ peoples around the world.The issue will be guest edited by Rachel Wexelbaum. Abstracts are due on October 1 via eMail to rswexelbaum (at) gmail.com. Author guidelines of the journal.LGBTQ+ populations in countries currently experiencing their "Stonewall moments" are discovering, documenting, archiving, and disseminating their existences in innovative ways that may contradict "best practices" defined by English speaking and western European countries. While a movement exists to provide global access to LGBTQ+ information, barriers such as physical safety, language, digital divide, and government surveillance impacts the broader dissemination of LGBTQ+ information and cultural artifacts from the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the MENA region and the Global South.
For this special issue, we invite librarians, archivists, record keepers, knowledge keepers, critical theorists, educators, scholars, students, computer scientists, data specialists, and creative individuals to consider how the tools and traditions of the information professions—often perceived by LGBTQ+ people as safe, inclusive professions—may lift up or diminish LGBTQ+ populations and their cultural output. We invite work that offers critical reflections on access to LGBTQ+ information, LGBTQ+ collection development in the broadest sense of the term, queering open culture, and decentering whiteness in LGBTQ+ resources, services, programming, and spaces in libraries, archives, museums, and online information professions. We are interested in work that suggests critical interventions into tools and traditions that oppress LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ information resources.
We seek contributions that describe diverse practices that challenge entrenched ideas about the LGBTQ+ community, their cultural output, their information seeking behavior and reading preferences; the types of LGBTQ+ information resources sought after by cisgender heterosexual populations; the roles of information professions and information professionals in regard to supporting LGBTQ+ visibility and civil rights; the definition of scholarly information as it applies to LGBTQ+ cultural output; cataloging and metadata, digital repositories and library systems. We are particularly interested in hearing perspectives on queering information from Black, Indigenous, People of Color, the disabled, and people from non-English speaking, non-Western European countries. We welcome a broad spectrum of submissions that touch on the following themes:
- LGBTQ+ people as collectors and archivists
- LGBTQ+ populations as librarians, archivists, museum professionals
- Presentation of LGBTQ+ information / diversity of information resources
- Inclusion of LGBTQ+ information resources in all collections
- Diversity of LGBTQ+ voices / representation in LGBTQ+ history and culture
- Formal or informal LGBTQ+ civil rights demonstrations or movements analogous to the Stonewall Rebellion in the United States.
- LGBTQ+ existence in social media, Web 2.0 and Wikimedia spaces
- Marginalized / criminalized LGBTQ+ populations and their access to LGBTQ+ information
- The impact of language on LGBTQ+ information access and representation in information resources
- Whose stories are we preserving, and why? What stories and experiences do we end up telling?
- Metadata and LGBTQ+ information access
- Algorithms and LGBTQ+ information access
- Intersection between LGBTQ+ collection building, archives, and LGBTQ+ rights activism
- Do LGBTQ+ collections in libraries and archives have a diversity problem?
Library Mistress
Monika Bargmann aka library mistress postet über Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, Bibliotheken, Archive, Bücher und Datenbanken, Grünzeug, Lesen und Schreiben - vor allem Science Fiction (meistens auf Deutsch, manchmal auf Englisch, seltener auch in anderen Sprachen)
Thursday, September 03, 2020
CFP: Queering Information: LGBTQ+ Memory, Interpretation, Dissemination
Friday, July 24, 2020
CfP: Black Women Librarians
In Spring 2022, the Library History Round Table will devote volume 6, number 1 of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and significant space in LHRT News and Notes, to scholarship, book reviews, and blog posts on Black women librarians. This issue will be guest-edited by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. [...]Dr. Cooke will accept proposals for scholarly articles and select 4-6 research studies for publication in LCHS. She will collaborate with additional authors and with Brett Spencer, LCHS book editor, and LHRT blog editor, to publish additional material in News and Notes. We are particularly interested in material on Black women librarians who have not yet been covered adequately by the scholarly or professional literature (please see the linked list). Proposals concerning other pathbreaking librarians are also welcomed. Thus, there will be various opportunities for all types of writers within the library history community to contribute toward raising awareness about the experiences of Black women within our field.
To submit a proposal, please contact Dr. Cooke via this signup form by November 16, 2020. https://forms.gle/QA5QggLHfU8NHUwM8 Full CFP can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lFFga_cdu1stWAnnF0gk8_KwjYe2MfUd/view?usp=sharing.
Quelle: StanleyK.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
"schüchtern, bescheiden und höflich, vom Typ her eher Bibliothekar"
"Attila Krasznahorkay ist ein zurückhaltender Mann, schüchtern, bescheiden und höflich, 66 Jahre alt, vom Typ her eher Bibliothekar als Geisterjäger".Gelesen in: Robert Gast: "Die fünfte Kraft. Ungarische Forscher wollen ein neues Elementarteilchen aufgespürt haben. Die Geschichte einer umstrittenen Entdeckung". In: spektrum.de, 15. Juli 2020
AG Universitätsverlage: Open Access als Voraussetzung für Mitgliedschaft
1. Bekenntnis zu Open Access und Open Science
a) Autor:innen und Herausgeber:innen wird sichtbar die Möglichkeit angeboten, Open Access im Sinne der Berliner Erklärung zu publizieren.
b) Die jeweilige Open-Access-Version der Veröffentlichungen ist über die Seite des Verlags zugänglich. Dies ist unabhängig davon, ob die Publikationsplattform in der Verantwortung des Verlags selbst liegt oder durch eine andere Einrichtung betrieben wird.
c) Die langfristige Verfügbarkeit solcher Open-Access-Versionen und ihrer Metadaten ist durch eine anerkannte Plattform zur Sicherung der Langzeitverfügbarkeit und/oder eine wissenschaftliche/öffentliche Einrichtung gesichert.
d) Der Verlag ist offen gegenüber neuen oder experimentellen Formen des Publizierens, die Open Science unterstützen (Verknüpfung mit Forschungsdaten, enhanced publications, Annotationen, Maschinenlesbarkeit etc.).
2. Wissenschaftsfreundliche Rechtepolitik
Eine wissenschaftsfreundliche Rechtepolitik ermöglicht es, dass Forschungsergebnisse möglichst breit rezipiert und nachgenutzt werden können. Das bedeutet, dass wissenschaftliche Urheber*innen die Kontrolle über ihre eigenen Publikationen behalten und den Verwertern nur die Rechte einräumen, die diese für ihre Dienstleistung benötigen.
a) Der Verlag bietet klare Informationen zu den urheberrechtlichen Aspekten seiner Services.
b) Der Verlag lässt sich von den Urheber:innen für die zentralen Verbreitungsformate einfache, also keine ausschließlichen Nutzungsrechte einräumen.
c) Der Verlag lässt sich von den Urheber:innen nur die Nutzungsrechte einräumen, die er auch ausüben wird (z.B. Online-Veröffentlichung, Verbreitung von Printexemplaren, ggf. Übersetzungen).
d) Um der Allgemeinheit größtmögliche Nutzungsrechte einzuräumen, werden die Open-Access-Publikationen unter anerkannten Lizenzen zur freien Nachnutzung veröffentlicht. Empfohlen wird die Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY.
Quelle: Inetbib, 21. Juli 2020.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Why did you become a librarian?
I figured any job requiring a Masters degree but paying squat must be really fulfilling and respected. ("Essential" Librarian to the Man)
Because spending my day showing people how to connect the printer, refilling the printer, unjamming the printer, calling tech about the printer, toggling power on the printer, and silently swearing at the printer is what I live for. #paperlesssocietyisamyth (Michelle)Und warum wurdet Ihr (nicht) Bibliothekar*innen? ;-)
Monday, June 29, 2020
ALA "accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems"
"The American Library Association (ALA) accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within the association and the profession.We recognize that the founding of our Association was not built on inclusion and equity, but instead was built on systemic racism and discrimination in many forms. We also recognize the hurt and harm done to BIPOC library workers and communities due to these racist structures.
We commit to our core values, particularly equity, diversity, and inclusion, and will demonstrate this commitment by reassessing and reevaluating our role in continuing to uphold unjust, harmful systems throughout the Association and the profession. We will include ALA members, ALA staff, and the profession in our movement forward, and we are developing a plan toward becoming the inclusive association we aspire to be. Going forward we commit to the following:
- To engage in dialogue with our members to inform our path forward,
- To continue assessing our governance structure such as through the Forward Together recommendations,
- To address the disparities in access to information for BIPOC.
We take responsibility for our past, and pledge to build a more equitable association and library community for future generations of library workers and supporters".
Es gibt auch weitere Statements zu Themen wie Blacklivesmatter, u.a. in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Fühl Dich angesprochen!
Aus Gründen der besseren Lesbarkeit gendern wir unsere Texte nicht. Dies impliziert keine Geschlechterdiskriminierung, alle Personen sollen sich gleichermaßen von unseren Inhalten angesprochen fühlen. Danke für Ihr Verständnis.
Bisherige Beispiele hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier und hier in diesem Blog. Gegenbeispiel hier, anderes Beispiel für "mitgemeint" hier.
Friday, June 26, 2020
info7 sucht Berichte aus dem Homeoffice
die Fachzeitschrift info7 möchte aus gegebenem Anlass in den kommenden Heften das Thema Homeoffice und deren Auswirkungen auf den dokumentarischen und archivischen Arbeitsalltag thematisieren.info7, das Magazin für Medien, Archive und Information, widmet sich seit über 30 Jahren dem Bereich Mediendokumentation und Medienarchive.Dafür benötigen wir dringend Ihre Mithilfe. Wenn Sie Interesse haben, Ihre Erfahrungen mit den anderen Kolleginnen und Kollegen zu teilen, melden Sie sich bitte kurzfristig bei redaktion@info7.de. Redaktionsschluss ist der 15. Juli.
Bitte teilen Sie uns Ihre Erfahrungen in kurzen Statements mit, die wir dann gesammelt abdrucken möchten. Es reicht eine Manuskriptseite, kann gerne aber auch mehr sein. Insbesondere interessieren uns dabei die folgenden Themenbereiche: Wie haben Sie in Ihren Dokumentationen und Archiven in den letzten Wochen die Arbeit organisiert? Auf welche technischen Lösungen konnten Sie dabei zurückgreifen? Wie war der Anteil zwischen Homeoffice und Präsenz? Welche Arbeiten lassen sich problemlos in das Homeoffice verlegen, welche nicht? Welche persönlichen Erfahrungen haben Sie mit Arbeit im Homeoffice gesammelt? Wie war und ist die Resonanz bei den Kolleginnen und Kollegen? Welche Schlussfolgerungen haben Sie aus den ersten Wochen für die zukünftige Arbeit gezogen?
nordburgenlandplus verzichtet auf geschlechtersensible Schreibweise
Dieses Dokument verzichtet aus Gründen der Lesbarkeit auf die geschlechtersensible Schreibweise. Die männliche Form wird sowohl für die weibliche wie auch für die männliche Form verwendet.
Bisherige Beispiele hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier, hier und hier in diesem Blog. Gegenbeispiel hier, anderes Beispiel für "mitgemeint" hier.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Neuerwerbungen - von Osternacht bis New Guinea Pidgin
Norbert Gstrein: Als ich jung war. 3. Aufl. Hanser 2019
Olga Tokarczuk: Die Jakobsbücher. Übersetzt von Lisa Palmes und Lothar Quinkenstein. Kampa Verlag 2019 [Księgi Jakubowe]
Mathias Nordvig: Norse mythology for kids. Tales of gods, creatures, and quests. With Norse glossary. Illustrations by Meel Tamphanon. Rockridge Press 2020
Friedrich Steinbauer (Compiler): Concise dictionary of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) with translations in English and German [Titel am Cover: Neo-Melanesian Dictionary]. Madang: Kristen Pres 1969 [Geschenk einer Freundin für meine Wörterbuchsammlung - gefunden bei Carla Nord]
Radek Knapp: Reise nach Kalino. München: Piper 2014 [ein Volltreffer aus dem offenen Bücherschrank in Föhrenau - sehr zu empfehlen]
Michael Bünker / Peter Karner: Der Gestank des Todes und der Duft der Auferstehung: 10 Visionen zur Osternacht. Styria 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Soziale Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit im Bibliothekswesen
Reflections on social aspects of sustainability as seen from my own profession
My own professional background is library and information science. When reading my notes from our lecture again, I was surprised how many of the concepts and topics apply to public libraries: sharing economy, public space, access to resources, education, employability, personal well-being, limiting consumption...
The consideration of the role of humanity in climate change and the notion of sustainable development are core concerns of society, and consequently of libraries (Source: IFLA, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group).
Sharing economy and access to resources are concepts inherent to public libraries: Lend instead of own, share and re-use instead of keep to yourself. Increasingly, "libraries of things" enable limiting consumption. Example: In one branch of the Vienna Public Libraries, library card owners can lend tools, technical devices, musical instruments, toys, and sports equipment without an extra fee. Other libraries provide "seed libraries" where seeds from traditional plants can be borrowed.
Libraries as public spaces are considered a "third place" apart from home and work. In many areas, they are the only places without pressure to buy/consume. They are open to private persons, but also to one-person companies without an own office. In libraries, people can read, work, relax, think, meet, listen, be silent, search, find. A related role could be climate change adaption: Public libraries in big cities have a history of constituting "warm rooms" for homeless people or people who cannot afford to heat their homes. In the future, "cool rooms" will be needed. In Vienna, the Red Cross started offering so-called cooling centres in malls – air-conditioned rooms where people can recover from the heat, especially in times where the night temperatures stay high. These could also be provided by – or in cooperation with – libraries.
Libraries offer a range of media that can be used for education (and resulting employability) as well as for personal well-being, e.g. for entertainment, distraction, or relaxation. Libraries could align their collection development policies to include media about the wide field of social, ecological, and economic sustainability. Library buildings can be built or adapted following green building standards.
Recapitulating, libraries are an epitome of social sustainability :-)
Thursday, April 16, 2020
USA und Covid-19: Initiative "Protect library workers"
The American Library Association, state library associations, and state/regional library agencies have all advocated for keeping library staff at home. "We are grieving alongside our colleagues as libraries are forced to close in the face of COVID-19," EveryLibrary's March 18 statement reads. "But the threats to our communities’ health are too significant not to close, and we do not want to see a single library worker fall ill because of their job."Viele Bibliotheksmitarbeiter*innen müssten zwischen der eigenen Gesundheit und der Gesundheit ihres Umfelds auf der einen Seite und ihrem Gehalt und Lebensunterhalt auf der anderen Seite wählen, so die Initiative.However, even in extreme circumstances — the Houston (TX) Public Library has a confirmed COVID-19 case on staff and its workers are still expected to come in to work in the building, using paper towels and rubber bands to fashion protective masks — these organizations have largely not stepped up to defend workers.
As of March 28, 2020, there are still hundreds of libraries, both academic and public, in the United States that are sending employees to work despite stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders enacted at the local or state level.