Queer Housing Nacional Google Group: A Librarian’s Documentation of a Community-Specific Resource

Beginning with a discussion of information access and its relationship to communities, this article is a first-person experience for creating a community-specific information resource, a queer housing listserv called Queer Housing Nacional. Written as a case study for how librarians may apply their skills to community as well as document the journey of this time capsuled listserv, one may find that this listserv may complicate librarianship’s promotion of open access, instead, encouraging closed participatory group structures, with collective distributions of power. Included are multiple email exchanges from the listserv, as well as Appendices of survey questions, notable responses, and actual correspondence from within this closed community of queer women of color and allies

Referencing Audre Lorde

This chapter is close a reading and textual analysis of canonical texts, speeches, and archived audio recordings of Audre Lorde. It embraces Lorde’s many identities, including her identity as a librarian who chose to depart from the library as a means of survival. The author urges reference librarians to study Lorde’s example and learn from Lorde’s choice to act in a space where silence can be transformed into language and action. Acknowledgment of the limitations and opportunities that Lorde teaches us in reference service and institutional structures, may allow for librarians to move toward a realm of justice

Sources on lesbian subjectivities for the production of lesbian of color identity formation through literature, art, film, or documentation: An annotatated bibliography

Historically, coming out as a lesbian and then forming an identity of a lesbian of color includes seeking out like voices and stories. Librarians who hold an understanding of the lesbian of color coming out process as well as the fluidity of language in Queer Studies will be better equipped to service lesbian of color patrons. This paper holds three tools for reference librarians: A literature review outlining the history of lesbian of color identity formation, secondly, a bibliography with interdisciplinary humanities reference annotations that source lesbians of color in literature, film, performance art, and identity, and thirdly, a model of content analysis that is strategic for finding applicable lesbian of color sources in multiple formats

Being a Lesbian Librarian, Collection Development in Lesbian Librarianship, and Archives as Lesbian Spaces

Edited talk From Pratt SILS Gender LIS Panel curated by Dinah Handel on March 27th, 2015Co-presenters include: Sian Evans; #artandfeminism Wikipedia Editathon & Jen LaBarbera; Filling in the Margins: The use of Queer Theory, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and Critical Race Theory to build inclusive archival collectionsThis talk remarks on the role of the librarian to provide lesbian-specific content

Opening Remarks to Outing Lorraine at the Schomburg Center

This article is an edit of the opening remarks for the event held on May 22nd, 2014 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of the In The Life Series supplying Black LGBT programming coordinated by Steven Fullwood. Outing Lorraine included panelists: Alexis DeVeaux, Joi Gresham, and Steven Fullwood and was moderated by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz. Opening remarks provide a biographical description of Lorraine Hansberry\u27s life, prepare the audience for a conversation on the implications for outing a black iconic figure, details the purpose for use of primary and secondary sources when, and provides a bibliography for further reading

Underwater radiated noise from marine vessels: A review of noise reduction methods and technology

Marine anthropogenic noise has increased significantly over the past few decades, and a growing body of research is highlighting the negative impacts this is having on marine eco-systems. With increasing pressure to reduce the noise generated by commercial and other shipping, there is a need to develop new technologies and look at how existing technology can be applied to reducing vessel noise. In this review, the sources of underwater noise from marine vessels are outlined and a range of devices and technologies are assessed to see how they can be applied to reducing it. Covering cavitation, propeller and flow noise, and machinery noise, a wide range of technologies are reviewed with differing levels of maturity. It is found that there already exists a wide range of technologies that could be readily applied to many vessels, and there are others in earlier stages of development that could provide substantial benefits in the medium-term. However, there is still a lack of quantitative data on the effectiveness of many noise-reducing technologies, particularly at full-scale. This makes legislation more difficult to enact and, together with the lack of economic incentives, is limiting the adoption of such technology by the marine industry