SLA GLitter BiTs

Richard Huffine: 'A Motivator and a Doer'

Caucus member Richard Huffine is profiled in the October issue of the SLA magazine, Information Outlook. Author Forrest Glenn Spencer calls Richard "one of those rare people: a motivator and a doer. He doesn't allow the grass to grow around his feet."

Richard was honored at the SLA's conference in Seattle in June with the Dow Jones & Company Leadership Award.

Richard is the National Library Coordinator for the U.S. Geological Society and a third-generation librarian. Check out the profile, A Different Kind of Washington Insider, in your mailed issue of Information Outlook or read the article online. (You'll need your SLA username and password to get there. Forgot? You can retrieve the information with just your email address.)

GLBTIC 2009 Conference events

GLBTIC looks to have a full schedule at the SLA 2009 Annual Conference. Here are the planned events:

Saturday June 13 6:30PM - 8:00PM (Last year’s time)Capital Pride Parade

The actual time for this event is based off of last year’s time slot and may change. The theme for 2009 will be Generations of Pride: Celebrate and Remember Stonewall at 40. We probably won’t have money to have a float in the parade but Eric and I are speaking with Capital Pride to be able to have a group march in the parade. Information about it will not posted in the online planner; we will post up to date information on the website, blog, and listserve. General information about the parade and 2008’s parade is available at:

http://www.metroweekly.com/prideguide/index2.php?ak=3521
 

Saturday June 13 9pm-? Two options:
 

Capital Pride’s Unity Party at a local dance club. Last year’s tickets sold for between $10-20. More information about last year’s party is available at:
 

http://www.metroweekly.com/prideguide/index2.php?ak=

GLBTIC Welcoming Party followed by a Pub Crawl-Hosted by a DC GLBTIC member. Similar to what Chris M. had for us in Seattle.

Please if you haven’t already given me your preference on which even let me know as soon as possible so we plan appropriately and get everyone the best information. Neither one of these events will be in the online conference planner but as we get more information will be posted on website, blog, and listserve.

Sunday June 14 8pm-11pm-Reception at the Spy Museum. This will probably be a ticketed event $5 a ticket payable when you register for the Conference. COL William H.

Pietsch, Jr., one of the first agents in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), which is the

predecessor to the CIA is tentatively booked as our speaker for this event. We will be cosponsoring this event with the Competitive Intelligence Division, the Military

Libraries Division, Information Futurist Caucus. I’ve personally toured the museum before and can personally attest that this is well worth the $5 ticket price. Not to mention this should be an excellent networking opportunity and a chance for the Caucus to increase its visibility. More information about this event will be in the online planner when it becomes available. In the meantime you can learn more about the Spy Museum at: 

http://www.spymuseum.org/

Tuesday June 16 1:30pm-3pm GLBTIC Business meeting. The brief business meeting will include planning and election of co-convener(s) for SLA 2010 in New Orleans. Following our business portion of the meeting, Charles Francis will speak on the collection and historical significance of the papers of the gay rights pioneer Franklin Edward Kameny, Ph.D. (Kameny turns 84 in 2009). The Kameny Archive includes thousands of pages of letters, government correspondence, testimony, photographs, picket signs and other memorabilia. The Kameny Papers trace the arc of the gay civil equality movement in the U.S. through Kameny's life and activism from the 1950s to the present and are now a part of the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Collection. More information about the collection is available at: 

http://www.kamenypapers.org/

As the driving force behind the LoC’s acquisition of the collection Mr. Francis was awarded one of GLAA's Distinguished Service Awards for 2007: 

http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=2658

Mr. Francis has also been featured in Time magazine as a “New Face of Gay Power”: 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005870,00.html

Tuesday June 16 7pm-10pm GLBTIC Dinner. This year’s dinner will be at STARS Bistro (Formerly known as Mimi’s). The dinner will be a ticketed event and cost $50 a ticket (not including alcohol), payable during conference registration, information for this event will be available in the online planner, Caucus blog, website and listserve. Not only does the wait staff serve the food, but they also perform show tunes for customers.

 Address: 2120 P Street N.W. Washington DC 20037 (202) 464-6464

Email: info@starsbistro.com Web: http://www.starsbistro.com/

Survey on LGBT Community and Public Libraries

Forwarded by Kyle Naff:

Colleagues--

The American Library Association has provided me with a Diversity Research Grant to determine how public libraries and the LGBT community can come together to better accommodate each other's needs.

With that in mind, please take about ten minutes to answer the following survey questions regarding your relationship with public libraries:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=XpAZ70j_2fy2o_2fFPiFZc6KQg_3d_3d

After I receive your input, I will be in a position to advise public libraries about concrete means of improving or initiating communications with their local LGBT communities. Hopefully, in the end, public libraries will increase the diversity of their patrons and help to establish that the library is a welcoming site for everyone in the community. Of course, you don't have to answer every question, and you're welcome to stop responding at any point.

If you have questions about the project or the survey, feel free to contact me.

Best,

Dr. John Pruitt
Assistant Professor of English
University of Wisconsin-Rock County
2909 Kellogg Avenue
Janesville, WI 53546
john.pruitt@uwc.edu
http://rock.uwc.edu/facultypages/jpruitt/

Congratulations to Daniel Lee

SLA recently announced that GLBTIC member Daniel Lee was elected to its Board of Directors. Daniel will serve a 3 year term on the board.  Other election winners include Anne Caputo as 2009 President Elect, Ruth Wolfish as Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect, Ann Sweeney as Division Cabinet Chair-Elect, and Nettie Seaberry as a Director.