Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
Nel Ward received the Boa Award for her on-going work with GLBTRT, most recently her participation in the transition of the GLBTRT Newsletter to GLBT News, a website that became the new official outlet for round table news earlier this year. With that change came the new Reviews Committee, a round table standing committee which […]
The GLBTRT Social at conferences is always a time of revelry and a place where members can renew or make new friendships. This year’s event at Mixto Restaurant, next to the iconic bookstore Giovanni’s Room, celebrated several awards. Chair-elect Ann Symons started the proceedings with an ALA award. More about that will be in GLBT […]
GLBTRT Members Elected to Executive Board: GLBT Round Table members Peter Hepburn and Gina Persichini have been elected to the ALA Executive Board. Though they’re not ones to brag, we’re very proud on their behalf of the fact that they were elected by the two largest margins among any of the members joining Executive Board. […]
The winners of this year’s Stonewall Book Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Hilary Sloin, David McConnell, Lori Duron, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, and e. E. Charlton-Trujillo on their wins. The GLBT Round Table would also like to extend our thanks to the committee members who devoted their time this to these awards: Petery Coyl (chair), Amanda Clay, […]
The Over the Rainbow Project, a committee of the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association, announced its 2014 book list at the ALA Midwinter Meeting last week. The list contains 71 titles that the committee feels “exhibit commendable literary quality and significant LGBT content” that are produced for audiences primarily over the age […]
The Rainbow Project, a joint committee between the GLBT Round Table and the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, has released its 2014 Rainbow List. This list compiles books with GLBTQ content of note that are recommended for people ages 0-18. A special thanks to the committee members who made this a […]
The GLBTRT Executive Board is seeking membership comments on the report from the Stonewall Ad Hoc Committee before Midwinter Meeting 2014. Lisa Johnston will compile the responses sent to the membership list at glbtrt-l@ala.org, and the Board will discuss these and the report at the meeting on Saturday morning. Click here to view the full […]
The British Library has released over one million images from digitized books from 1600-1900 onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, mix, and repurpose. Maps, comical satire, decorative letters, landscapes, and other illustrations are now in the public domain thanks to a gift from Microsoft. The featured image comes from Historia de las Indias de […]
For the first time, Blake Little’s Photographs from the Gay Rodeo can be seen at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis) starting on February 1, 2014. These 41 black-and-white images of gay and lesbians on the gay rodeo circuit date back to 1988. Curator Johanna Blume said, “This exhibit also explores […]
Organization announcements follow developments of interest in the LGBT world from established organizations. If you know of something we’ve missed, please contact the editor so we can add it in! Oak Park Public Library (IL) has a recommendation for the core collection of a “$200 Transgender Bookshelf. Other sources are the annual GLBTRT Over the Rainbow […]