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Almost eighty years ago, Margaret Scoggin, a librarian at the New York Public Library, made an odd choice. As one of the founders of the NYPL children’s branch in the early 1940s, Scoggin had been contributing a column to Library Journal called “Books for Older Boys and Girls.” In 1944, she inexplicably decided that her articles should …
During an online professional development course called “How To Build and Defend Inclusive Collections” sponsored by Library Journal, Cornell University collection development librarian Carson Williams, asserted that “fostering an inclusive, safe queer library environment is the most important thing you can do.”
Back when almost everyone and everything was trying desperately to get or “be” online the culture posited some ideas about what that might mean. Would we need paper anymore (the paperless office) and what about libraries?
If the Drag Queen conversion movement is part of the culture war (it is), then the American Library Association (ALA) is one of its Generals. Promoting and funding Drag Queen Story Hour’s that put sell sex-performers as gender reformers for children.
