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Lambda Literary Begins 'Confessions of a Librarian'

LambdaLiterary.org, the online publication of the Lambda Literary Foundation, has started a column featuring interviews with LGBTIQA librarians and the work that they do to select and promote LGBTIQ materials at their libraries.

Rachel Wexelbaum's column is called Confessions of a Librarian. Her first posted interview is with Ellen Greenblatt; Ellen was the guest speaker at the 2007 meeting of SLA's GLBT Issues Caucus. Ellen's new book, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access, will be published soon.

The second interviewed author, Laurie Sperling, talks about her work new LGBTIQ titles for children and teens and about health literacy outreach to LGBTIQ seniors.

Speaking of collections for teens, check out these blogs:

• I'm Here, I'm Queer. What the Hell Do I Read? by Lee Wind
• QueerYA by Daisy Porter

No Closet at the Library: 19 Graphic Novels for Gay & Lesbian Pride Month

Check out Library Journal's article on GLBT comics and graphic novels, as well as Prism Comics, "a nonprofit organization that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) comics, creators, and readers."

As for why the LJ article is titled, "The Library Don't Have a Closet," I doesn't know what the editors were thinking. (Maybe it'll be corrected by the time you read this.)