'Misc' Category
Office Expansion
That’s right…the office and library have expanded! With Student Ethics moving out, the GLBT Student Support Services Office has taken over most of the house at 705 E. 7th Street. Stop by and check out the new space…and check out a few movies while you’re at it!
Lambda Literary Foundation Announces Pioneer Awards
The Lambda Literary Foundation has named Ann Bannon, Malcolm Boyd, and Mark Thompson as this year’s recipients of its Pioneer Award, to be presented at the Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony on May 29, 2008 in West Hollywood, California.
The Lambda Literary Foundation bestows its Pioneer Award on those individuals who have broken new ground in the […]3273
I have this feeling that no one but me might care about this, but this is the kind of thing I personally find interesting. The GLBTSSS Library currently has:
1467 Books
910 Journal Articles
327 DVDs
239 Journal Issues
128 CDs
114 VHS Tapes
And a handful of cassette tapes, audio books, and other ephemera, for a total of 3273 items.With […]
Even the Gays Do It Shamelessly
I had a realization while perusing LOGOonline.com’s NewNowNext Blog in order to steal ideas to write about this evening: they’re just as shamelessly self-promoting, corporate slags as any other company out there (including the Rupert Murdoch Republican media empire otherwise known as Fox).
Exhibit A: The relentless self-referencing of LOGO’s own website […]New Library Search Page Color Scheme
We have recently redone the color scheme for the GLBTSSS Library search page. We hope that this new interface will be more pleasant to use than the defualt color scheme used by Nelsonville Ohio Public Library. We would love to hear feedback about this color scheme, and are glad to finally have this […]
Online Accounts Finished
I finished sending out the final online account information today. I am so relieved that this is finally done. Everyone should have access to our online system now which allows you to check and see what you have checked out, when it is due, and it allows you to make suggestions for library […]
BloomingOUT and the Library.
The GLBTSSS Library has gotten permission to include past episodes of BloomingOUT Bloomington’s GLBT public issues radio show produced through WFHB in our collection. We will over the next several months begin to cut the episodes into tracks, burn those tracks to CD, and catalog the episode segments in our online database. This […]
New Library Space
We are exceptionally excited to announce that we officially have a new space at the GLBTSSS Office. We now have an additional room upstairs. This room will be used for many different things, but the important thing for this particular blog is that it now houses the hundreds of books that were in storage just […]
Yay! Suggestion System working.
Ok. The suggestion system for the http://wairaka.lib.indiana.edu is up and running. It only half worked up until this point. I will admit that the majority of the library budget has been spent at this point for this year mostly purchasing movies from the PRIDE film festival. However, I am going to […]
PRIDE Panel
There is going to be a panel on GLBT cinema Thursday at 4:00 pm at the Buskirk Chumley theatre. This panel will include two members of the GLBTSSS office, Wil O’berry the Program coordinator, and Victor J Kinzer the Library coordinator. Come out and see what the locals think about this grand thing that is […]
The First Time
This is the GLBTSSS library Blog. We will be keeping information on this blog pertaining to the development of the GLBT library resources. All new arrivals will be posted here, as well as information about volunteer projects, and general GLBT research resources. Our cinema collection has been completely overhauled over break and […]