Gender-Related+Publications


 * __Gender Issues Publications from Group Members__**

(2011). PARAPHILIAS: The Perversion of Meaning in the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Advances in Classification Online, Dec. 2011. (2011).PARAPHILIAS: The Perversion of Meaning in the Library of Congress Subject Headings. ASIS&T SIG-CR, New Orleans, October 12, 2011. (2010). For SEXUAL PERVERSION see PARAPHILIAS: The Social Construction of Sexual Deviance in the Library of Congress Catalog, Library History Seminar XXII, Madison, Wis. September 11, 2010. (2010). Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Library Users and their Librarians: A Study of User Satisfaction and LGBTQ Collection Development in Academic Libraries, In Ed. Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland,2010. (2009). From "Sexual Perversion" and "Yellow Peril" to "Asian-American gays": Intersectionality and Intertextuality in Library of Congress Subject Headings Regarding Nationalism and Sexuality, National Women's Studies Association, Atlanta, Nov. 14, 2009. (2009). Gender Expression in a Small World: Social Tagging of Transgender-Themed Books in LibraryThing, ASIS&T SIG-CR, Nov. 7, 2009. (2009). The Contested Language of Description and Access, Panel with Emily Drabinski, K.R. Roberto, and Laura Wynholds, Wisconsin Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Conference, April 4, 2009. (2009). A Collaborative Cruise Through LGBTQ Resources, with Phyllis Holman Weisbard and Nerissa Nelson, Wisconsin Women’s Studies and LGBTQ Conference, Madison, Wis., April 3, 2009 & Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, Green Lake, Wis., April 24, 2009. (2009). Who is the Authority on Transgender Vocabularies?: A Comparative Study of Controlled Terms in LCSH and User-Generated Tags in LibraryThing, ALISE Gender Issues SIG, Denver, January 22, 2009. (2009). Transcending the Library Catalog: User-Generated Tags in LibraryThing v. Subject Headings in WorldCat for Transgender books, ALISE Works-in-Progress Session, Jan. 20, 2009. (2008). The Power to Self-Name, Student Research Forum, Wisconsin Library Association Library Research Round Table, Madison, Wis., Nov. 6, 2008. (2008). The Asian-American Bisexual Ghetto of LCSH: A Cultural History of Representation, Center for Information Policy Research, Thinking Critically Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 15, 2008. (2006). Stories of Footsteps: The History of Marian College Fond du Lac, Showcasing the Oral History Project, Marian College of Fond du Lac, February 8, 2006.
 * __Melissa Adler__**

Cassell, K., & Weibel, K. (2007). Public Library Response to Women and Their Changing Roles Revisited. //Library Trends//, //56//(2), 303-327. Cassell, K. A. (1991). Anthologies of foreign-born women writers. Collection Building, 11(3), 28-29. Cassell, K. A. (1987). The women's rights struggle in librarianship: the Task Force on Women. Activism In American Librarianship, 1962-1973, 21-9.
 * __Kay Cassell__**

__**Lesley Farmer**__ (2011). Are girls game? Knowledge Quest, 40(1), 14-17. (2010). Technology-enhanced information literacy in adult education. Gender impact on adult education. Gaming in adult education. How adults learn through information technologies. In V. Wang (Ed.), Encyclopedia of information communication technologies (2009). With N. Murphy. Girls and egaming engagement: Optimizing gender equity in school libraries. In M. Orey, V. McClendon, & R. Branch (Eds.), Educational Media and Technology Yearbook (pp. 247-262). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. (2008). Girls and technology: What public libraries can do. Library Hi Tech News, 25(5), 1-4. (2008). Teen girls and technology. New York: Teachers College Press; Chicago: ALA. (2008). Learning on the move: Making technology appealing to girls. CSLA Journal, 32(1), 19-21. (2007). He sees/she sees: How school librarians and educators foster gender equity in visual literacy. In R. Griffin, M. Avgerinou, & J. Giesen (Eds.), History, community, & culture: Celebrating tradition and transforming our future (pp. 95-100). Broken Arrow, OK: International Visual Literacy Association. (2005). Librarians, literacy, and the promotion of gender equity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (1996). Informing young women: Gender equity through literary skills. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

McInerney, C.R. (2006). Factors that influence women and men to enroll in IT-related majors. In E. Trauth (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology (pp. 289 – 296). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. McInerney, C.R. (2004, May-June). Women and information technology in Ireland. Women and Librarianship, 24, 7 - 10. (Invited article) McInerney, C.R. (2003). Communication and globalisation: New opportunities for women in Ireland. Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council. Women's Issues Satellite Meeting. July 31, Berlin, Germany. McInerney, C.R. & Park, R. (1984). Educational Equity in the Third Wave: Technology Education for Women and Minorities. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Department of Education.
 * __Claire McInerney__**

Mehra, B., and Braquet, D. (2011). Progressive LGBTQ Reference: Coming Out in the 21st Century. Special Issue: Learning Landscapes and the New Reality, Reference Services Review, Volume 39, Number 3, 401-422. Mehra, B. (2011). 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 (pp. 298-309).Jefferson NC: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Mehra, B. (panelist). (2011). Queer UT: Slices of History (panel title). OUTstanding! The University of Tennessee’s First LGBTIQ Conference, October 22, 2011, Knoxville, Tennessee. Mehra, B. (2011). Gender and Sexual Orientation in LIS Education: A Website Analysis of Bibliographic Course Descriptions (presented by D. Potnis). Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference: Competitiveness & Innovation, San Diego, CA, 4-7 January, 2011. Mehra, B. (Invited Panelist). (2010). Bringing Research out of the Closet: Libraries, Librarians, and LGBTQ Collections. Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies, San Francisco, February 25-28, 2010. Mehra, B. (2009). Digital Actions in a Strategic Plan in Library and Information Science Education to Fairly Represent People of Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities (panel presentation). Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference: Transforming LIS Education for the 21st Century, Denver, CO, 20-23 January, 2009. Mehra, B., and Lambert, C. A. (2008). Priority Information Needs of African American Graduate Women: A Pilot Study, Communication & Social Change, 2(1), 105-123. Mehra, B., and Braquet, D. (2007) (invited). 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), 542-565. Mehra, B., and Braquet, D. (2007). Process of Information Seeking during “Queer” Youth Coming-Out Experiences. In: M. K. Chelton and C. Cool (eds.), Youth Information Seeking Behaviors: Contexts, Theories, Models and Issues (pp. 93-131). Toronto, Canada: Scarecrow Press. Mehra, B., Braquet, D., White, E., Weaver, R. and Hodge, C. (2007). A Website Analysis of the University of Tennessee’s Peer Institutions to Assess their Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People (Report submitted by the Research Committee, Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People, University of Tennessee. (URL: https://web.utk.edu/~bmehra/final.pdf). Mehra, B., and Braquet, D. (2006). 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). URL: http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres16n1/. Mehra, B. (2006). Contextualizing Internet Use in the Everyday Life of the Cyber-Queer (invited paper presentation) Annual Meeting of the Broadcasting Education Association 2006: Convergence Shockwave: Change, Challenge and Opportunity, Las Vegas, NV, April 27-29, 2006.
 * __Bharat Mehra__**

Olson, Hope A. (2007). How We Construct Subjects: A Feminist Analysis. Special issue on: Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services, eds. Cindy Ingold and Susan E. Searing. Library Trends 56(2): 509-541. Olson, Hope A, and Susan Gold Smith. (2006). Transgressive Tools: the Liberating Power of Classification and Its Potential in Activist Visual Representation. Women and Environment International Magazine, 72/73 (fall/winter): 38-40. Olson, Hope A., and Amber Ritchie. (2006). Gentility, technicality, salary: Women in the literature of librarianship. Introductory essay in Betsy Kruger and Catherine A. Larson (ed.), On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship 1998-2002 (pp. xiii-xxv). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Olson, Hope A. (2003). Transgressive deconstructions: Feminist/postcolonial methodology for research in knowledge organization. In José Antonio Frías and Críspulo Travieso (eds.), Tendencias e Investigación en Organización del Conomcimiento/Trends in Knowledge Organization Research (pp. 731-740). Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. Olson, Hope A. (ed.). (2002). Information resources in women‘s studies and feminism. München, Germany: K.G. Saur. Olson, Hope A. (2002). If it's there, can you find it? Bibliographic control. In Hope A. Olson (ed.), Information resources in women‘s studies and feminism (pp. 100-114). München, Germany: K.G. Saur Olson, Hope A. (2001). The power to name: Representation in library catalogues. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26(3): spring, pp.639–668. Olson, Hope A. (2000). Globalisation, diversity and information. Education for Library and Information Services: Australia (ELIS:A) 17(1-3): May-December, pp.19-22. Olson, Hope A. (1998). Education for cataloguing is/as women's studies. Serials Librarian 35(1/2): 153–166. Olson, Hope A. (1998). Feminism and librarianship—in practice! Women‘s Studies Section Newsletter 13(1): 3. Olson, Hope A. (1998). Education for cataloguing is/as women's studies. In Kristin H. Gerhard (ed.), Women‘s Studies Serials: A Quarter-Century of Development (pp. 153–166). New York: Haworth Press. Also published simultaneously as a special issue of The Serials Librarian. Olson, Hope A., and Dennis B. Ward. (1998). Charting a journey across knowledge domains: Feminism in the Dewey Decimal Classification. In Widad Mustafa el Hadi, Jacques Maniez and Steven A. Pollitt, eds., Structures and Relations in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Fifth International ISKO, August 25-29 1998, Lille, France (pp.237–244). Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag. Olson, Hope A., and Dennis B. Ward. (1997). Feminist locales in Dewey's landscape: Mapping a marginalized knowledge domain. In Knowledge Organization for Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the Sixth International Study Conference on Classification Research (pp. 129–133). The Hague: International Federation for Information and Documentation. Olson, Hope A. (1997). The feminist and the emperor's new clothes: Feminist deconstruction as a critical methodology for library and information studies. Library & Information Science Research 19(2): 181–198. Olson, Hope. (1992). Subject access to women's studies materials. In Bella Hass Weinberg (ed.), Cataloging Heresy: Challenging the Standard Bibliographic Product (pp. 159–169). Medford, NJ: Learned Information. Olson, Hope A. (1989). Women's studies in general library collections, or, A feminist apologia for the Library of Congress. In Nola Erhardt and Pat Leginsky, (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Annual Feminist Research Forum (pp.45–50). Edmonton, Alberta: Women's Program and Resource Centre, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta.
 * __Hope Olson__**

Searing, Susan E. (forthcoming). Review of Women & addiction. Feminist Collections 31, no. 1. Searing, Susan E. (2009). Review of Shapers of the great debate on women’s rights: A biographical dictionary. Feminist Collections 30, no. 1: 22-23. Searing, Susan E. (2007). Biographical reference works for and about women, from the advent of the women's liberation movement to the present: an exploratory analysis. Library Trends 57, no. 2: 469-493. Olson, H. A. (ed.). (2002). //Information resources in women’s studies and feminism//. München, Germany: K.G. Saur. Searing, Susan E. (2002). Feminist values and the canon question: shaping library collections and electronic gateways to information in women's studies. In Information sources in women's studies and feminism, pp. 79-99. Hope Olson (ed.) Munich: K.G. Saur. Loeb, Catherine, Susan E. Searing, and Esther Stineman. (1987). Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-1985. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Searing, Susan E. (1985). Introduction to Library Research in Women's Studies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
 * __Susan Searing__**

Voices in Cyberspace: Women in the Middle East North African (MENA) Region
 * __Sharon Stoerger__**

[Letter to Editor] "Gays Deserve Praise Not Scorn." American Libraries 26, no. 10 (Nov. 1995): 1010.
 * __Arlene Taylor__**