Advisory Board for Library & Information Resources
Karen Antell, MLIS, MA, Associate Professor of Bibliography, Head of Reference & Outreach Services, University of Oklahoma Libraries; author, “The Citation Landscape of Scholarly Literature in LGBT Studies: A Snapshot for Subject Libraries (College & Research Libraries, Vol 73, no. 6, November 2012; two book chapters “James Baldwin Publishes Giovanni’s Room” and “The Golden Age of Gay Literature, in “Great Events from History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events” edited by Lilian Faderman, Yolanda Retter, and Horacio Roque Famfraz (Salem Press, 2007, and EBSCO’s LGBT Life database),and many additional articles in academic and research librariaship. See:
https://ou.academia.edu/KarenEAntell/CurriculumVitae
James V. Carmichael, PhD, Professor, Library & Information Studies,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/clist.aspx?id=1103
Matthew P. Ciszek, MLS, Head Librarian,
Penn State (Shenango)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mpc16/blogs/profile/cv/curriculum-vitae.html
http://about.me/mciszek
Patrick Keilty, PhD, MLIS, Asst Professor, University of Toronto, School of Information, Co-Editor with Rebecca Dean, “Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader. (Los Angeles, CA: Litwin Books, 2013); author, “Sexual Boundaries and Subcultural Discipline” Knowledge Organization, Vol 39, No. 6 (2012); “Tabulating Queer: Space, Perversion, and Belonging.” Knowledge Organization, Vol 36, No. 4 (2009); . “LGBT Information Needs” in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, ed. Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Mack. (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2009): 3275-3280; and numerous additional peer review journal articles and distinguished book chapters
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/patrick-keilty
Bharat Mehra, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Tennesee School of Information Sciences; author of numerous articles relating to library education and diversity efforts; honored with LGBT Ally Research Award (Chancellor’s Honors, 2008); author (in press), with J. Haley and D. Lane, “Information Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) South Asians: Multiple Shades of Identity based on Sexual Orientation and Ethnicity, The Colors of the Rainbow: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People of Color in the Academy,” edited by: V. A. Wall & J. Washington; (author) Mehra, B. “Integrating LGBTIQ Representations Across the Library and Information Science Curriculum: A Strategic Framework for Student-Centered Interventions,” in E. Greenblatt (ed.), Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access, MacFarland & Company; author, with D. Braquet, “Library and Information Science Professionals as Community Action Researchers in an Academic Setting: Top Ten Directions to Further Institutional Change for People of Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities,” Library Trends, 56(2); author with D. Braquet, “A ‘Queer’ Manifesto of Interventions for Libraries to ‘Come Out’ of the Closet! A Study of ‘Queer’ Youth Experiences during the Coming Out Process, Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2006); and much more.
http://web.utk.edu/~bmehra/publications.html
Dr. Rae-Anne Montague is Assistant Professor and School Library Media Program Coordinator at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library and Information Science Program. Her work focuses on information equity and spans several areas of education and social justice. She is actively involved with a number of community-based projects including forming and convening the new LGBTQ Users Special Interest Group in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). For more information see
http://raeannemontague.wordpress.com
Anne L. Moore, MA, MLIS, Special Collections Librarian, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Amongst many accomplishments: author, “History of the (ALA) GLBT Round Table” in “Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access” (ed. by Ellen Greenblatt, MacFarlane & Company, 2010); former Chair, ALA GLBT Round Table, 2010- 2013; Co-Chair 2002-2006; and more.
William Peniston, PhD, is Librarian and Archivist of the Newark Museum. He is a leading author in French history and culture as it relates to many areas of LGBT concerns. His books include Bougres de vie (Queer Lives): huit homosexuels du XIXe siecle se racontent (ErosOnyx); Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France (University of Nebraska Press); and winner of the CHOICE Book-of-the-Year Award, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris (originally published by The Haworth Press and now distributed by Taylor & Francis/Routledge).
Robert Ridinger, MA, MLS, Social Sciences & Area Studies Librarian, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University; pioneering author, researcher, community volunteer in LGBTQ librarianship. Editor (with E. Bosman and J. Bradford), “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature: A Genre Guide (Libraries Unlimited, 2008); author, “Speaking for our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights 1892-2000″ (Harrington Park Press, 2004); author, “The Gay and Lesbian Movement: References and Resources” (MacMillian, 1993); author, “The Homosexual and Society: An Annotated Bibliography” (Greenwood Press, 1990); peer reviewer for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Section of Resources for College Libraries (2009); author of more than 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews related to LGBTQ issues in professional and popular periodicals and books; active member/reviewer for the GLBT Round Table (American Library Assocation); Staff Librarian since 1993 of the Leather Archives and Museum (Chicago, Illinois); and much more.
Dr. Alvin Schrader, Adjunct Professor, ISMSS (Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services), University of Alberta, and Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Studies. Among his current research interests are intellectual freedom and censorship in libraries and in society at large, internet access and filtering, library collections and issues for sexual and gender minorities, and Internet censorship of information, websites, and social media about and for sexual and gender minorities.
www.ualberta.ca/~aschrade
Stephen E. Stratton, AB, MA, MSLS, Interim, Assoc. Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Library California State University Channel Islands; Co-Chair, GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Association (2001 – 2005); his research interests are in literacy information provision to GLBT people, and access to HIV/AIDS information in diverse communities. His book, The Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS, 3rd edition was published by Facts on File in 2012. He is the author of numerous pioneering book chapters on HIV/AIDS community service/reference, including, “AIDS: Medical History” (LGBTQ America Today (Hawley, Greenwood Press, 2008) and “Reference on the Web: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered e-Reference” (Booklist, 2001). He has assisted numerous volunteer HIV/AIDS organizations including Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (Washington, DC); Richmond AIDS Consortium; New York Correctional AIDS in Prison Project; HIV/AIDS Resource Center (Ann Arbor, Michigan); and many more.
http://ciapps.csuci.edu/FacultyBiographies/stephen.stratton
Polly Thistlethwaite, MLS, Professor & Chief Librarian, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Amongst numerous accomplishments: previously Caretaker of the Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY); previous organizer of the ALMS International GLBT Archives Conference (2008); previous Chair, CUNY CLAGS Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and member of its Board of Directors (2004-2008); author of “Stonewall Riots” in the Gale Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender (Dierdre Blanchfield, ed.) Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2007; author of “Prostitution, Hustling, and Sex Work Law and Policy,” in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Marc Stein, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2004; author of “The Homosexual as Problem Patron,” Reference Librarian, 2002 (75/76), The Haworth Press; author of “Lesbian Herstory Archives,” and “Joan Nestle,” in “Lesbian Histories and Cultures,” Bonnie Zimmerman, ed. New York: Garland, 2000; author of “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender” (entry co-author) in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz, eds. Magazines for Libraries, 8th ed. New York: Bowker, 1995, and also co-author of “Lesbian and Gay” entries for 1992 7th ed. and 1989 6th ed.; author of “Gays and Lesbians in Library History,” in Wayne Wiegand, ed. Encyclopedia of Library History. New York: Garland, 1994; and many more publications and reviews in the LGBTQ field.
Daniel C. Tsang, AMLS, MA, Distinguished Librarian,
University of California, Irvine; editorial board member, Journal of Homosexuality
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5142
Rachel Wexelbaum, MLIS, Management Librarian and LGBTIQ Studies Librarian at St. Cloud State University. Senior editor and book reviewer for Lambda Literary Foundation, and the LGBT Studies peer reviewer for Resources for College Libraries. Founding member of MnnGAYS, the unofficial LGBTIQ subunit of the Minnesota Library Association, and editor of the upcoming anthology Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Library Juice Press, 2014).
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rswexelbaum/Wexelbaum2013CV.pdf