Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies

Published in the series:

• Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians, edited by Tracy Nectoux
• Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century, edited by Lyz Bly and Kelly Wooten

Forthcoming in the series:

• Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, edited by Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty
• Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive, by Alana Kumbier
• Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction, by Maria Accardi
• Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Edited by Rachel Wexelbaum

Litwin Books and Library Juice Press seek book proposals and manuscripts for a new series, Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship, edited by Emily Drabinski. This series will publish works from both practical and theoretical perspectives that critically engage issues in the LIS field related to gender and sexual difference. Potential subjects include:

• Queer and feminist approaches to traditional library topics including classification, pedagogy, collection development
• Works that address gender and sexuality issues in conjunction with other articulations of difference including race, class, nationality, etc.
• Practical approaches to developing community-based GLBTQ collections
• Materials addressing library needs of specific populations, e.g., GLBTQ youth, elders, etc.
• Workplace issues, e.g., 'coming out' at work
• Historical perspectives on GLBTQ and women's issues in the library
• Works that bring library issues into conversation with contemporary theoretical debates in feminist, queer, and gender studies

Please submit queries, proposals, and manuscripts to Emily Drabinski, emily.drabinskigmail.com.