Censorship is a drag: LGBTQ materials and programming under siege in libraries – part 1

Presenter Info

Jason D. Phillips

Jason D. Phillips is an Associate Librarian / Social Sciences Librarian in the Research Engagement Department at the University of Central Florida. He serves as subject librarian and liaison to Sociology and the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs. His research areas of interest are diversity, equity, and inclusion in library services and collections, evidence synthesis reviews in the Social Sciences, and issues surrounding librarian burnout.

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Jordan Ruud

Jordan Ruud is the director of library services at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, where he serves as liaison to the humanities disciplines. His research interests include user experience and intellectual freedom.

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Phoebe Doyle

Phoebe Doyle is an aspiring writer from Dublin, born and raised in The Liberties, Dublin’s oldest quarter. She holds an undergraduate degree in English and film studies and a Master in Library and In formation Studies, both from University College Dublin. A poet at heart, Phoebe takes a similar approach to academic writing—the pairing of engaging, moving prose with facts being, as she believes, to be one of the keys to change. She continually finds inspiration through lesbian writers of the past, the beauty of her city, and the wondrous people in her life. Her other works lie haphazardly in dog eared notebooks and will hopefully one day grace the shelves of other curious writers. Her contribution to this book marks her first professionally published piece. You can follow her on Twitter at @ PhoebeEllaDoyle.

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Matthew Rohwder

Matt Rohweder is a Liaison Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Ontario Council of University Faculty Association’s Award of Distinction in Ac ademic Librarianship. He has worked in academic libraries since 2014 and is an advocate, activist, and ally for all equity-deserving groups. He is co-author of Librarian’s Guide to Games and Gamers: From Col lection Development to Advisory Services (Libraries Unlimited). His research interests include DEI initiatives in libraries, LGBTQ+ com munity libraries and education programs, and allyship in libraries. Outside of work, he is an avid reader, gamer, and vinyl collector. He and his husband live in Kitchener, Ontario, with their dog, Scarlett.

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David Benjamin

David Benjamin is the Head of the University of Central Florida Librar ies Special Collections & University Archives department. Before working at UCF, David was the Assistant Director of the Volkerding Study Center at the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Pho tography and the Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Histori cal Society. He started his career in archives in the University of Kan sas’ Kansas Collection. David has a Master of Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Architecture in American Architecture and Landscape History from the University of Kansas. An archivist for 30-plus years, David is involved with several regional, national, and international organizations, including the So ciety of American Archivists, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Man uscript Section, and the Society of Florida Archivists.

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Ernani Agulto

Ernani A. Agulto is a licensed Filipino librarian-teacher, proud queer, and an interdisciplinary creative. He has been active in the field of librarianship for more than ten years and is working as a librarian under the Library and Extension Division (LED) and as the Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Person of the Quezon City Public Library (QCPL), Quezon City. In addition, he has been invited to vari ous speaking engagements as a resource person in the Philippines. Mr. Agulto received a Bachelor of Library and Information Science from the Philippine Normal University, Manila. He took online cours es on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2015) from Athabasca University and UNESCO and Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity (2018) from Har vard University—Online Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology (MIT), and edX, under a financial assistance grant. He was a full scholarship recipient and earned a two-year Fashion Design and Marketing course from SoFA Design Institute. At present, he is pur suing a graduate degree in art studies with a specialization in art theory and criticism at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. In his spare time, he engages in creative pursuits and perceives that the intersectionality of queer issues presents an opportunity to ad vance queer discourses.

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James Rosenzweig

James W. Rosenzweig is a Professor and the Education and Children’s Studies Librarian at Eastern Washington University. James’s re search interests include citation analysis and source evaluation for K-12 students and college undergraduates, diverse representation in children’s and young adult literature, and Wikipedia in the class room. He holds a Master in Teaching from Western Washington Uni versity and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.

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Maureen Babb

Maureen Babb is a Science Liaison Librarian in the Jim Peebles Science and Technology Library at the University of Manitoba. Maureen ob tained an MLIS from the University of Alberta, has published in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, the Journal of the Cana dian Health Libraries Association, the Journal of the Medical Librar ies Association and elsewhere, and has been Chair of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL)’s Research and Scholarship Committee.

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Vanessa Kitzie

Vanessa Kitzie, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Infor mation Science at the University of South Carolina. Her recent publi cations have appeared in The Library Quarterly, Journal of the Asso ciation for Information Science, and Journal of Documentation, and
she is a co-author of the book LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Children’s Librari anship: Policies, Programs, and Practices.

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Allyson Wind

Allyson Wind (she/her) is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Kemp Library, on the campus of East Stroudsburg University (ESU), a Penn sylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Institution. Mrs. Wind is a tenured assistant professor and liaison librarian for the Education, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physics Departments. Her collection development areas include the above liaison areas plus the Children’s and Young Adult Collections and the Curriculum Materials Center (CMC). Mrs. Wind obtained a Diver sity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate from ESU; her research for the certificate involved investigating whether academic libraries were truly inclusive places for people with disabilities. Mrs. Wind serves as the chair of ESU’s Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) Gender and Social Justice (GISJ) committee. Mrs. Wind attended Tunkhannock Area High School, gradu ated from the University of Scranton in 2006 with a Bachelor in Ele mentary Education, and substitute taught in several school districts in Northeastern Pennsylvania until attending graduate school. Mrs. Wind completed her Master in Library and Information Science from Drexel University’s iSchool in 2012. She worked in two public librar ies in New York’s Hudson Valley and was the Web Services Librarian at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) before accepting her current position at ESU. Mrs. Wind currently lives just outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania with her husband Kyle and their four rescue cats.

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Pat Tully

Pat Tully grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and was educated at Cape Cod Community College and Williams College, receiving a Master in Library Studies from the University of Michigan in 1988. Since then, Pat has worked in technical services and library administration in public and academic libraries in Indiana, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Alaska. In addition to her work in libraries, Pat is active in local organizations. She has been a Rotarian for 12 years, joining the Middletown (Connecticut) Rotary Club in 2010, and has held a variety of offices in that Club and in the First City Rotary Club in Ketchikan, Alaska. Pat has long had an interest in preserving and celebrating local history, serving as a volunteer and Board members at Historic Beverly (Massachusetts), the Middlesex County (Connecticut) Historical Society, and Historic Ket chikan. In January 2017 she moved to Ketchikan, Alaska to become Director of the Ketchikan Public Library.

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Evia Giaconia

Evangeline Giaconia is a recent graduate of the museum studies MA program at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the ethical treatment of Indigenous archival materials and, more recent ly, queer archiving. Her work can be found at ethicalarchives.world press.com. When not working as the Access Services Manager at the Architecture & Fine Arts Library at UF, she can be found writing and printmaking.

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Maria Atilano

Maria Atilano (she/her) is the Student Engagement Librarian at the University of North Florida’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library in Jack sonville, Florida. She began working in academic libraries in 2002 as a student employee while studying at the University of North Caroli na at Greensboro. Before becoming a librarian, Maria held staff posi tions as Library Services Specialist in Public Services and Sr. Library Services Associate in Special Collections at UNF. She graduated with her MLIS from Florida State University in 2012. Maria’s research inter ests include social media, library marketing, student engagement, and instruction.

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Julie Leuzinger

Julie Leuzinger (she/her/hers) received her Master in Library Science from the Texas Woman’s University and has been working at the Uni versity of North Texas (UNT) Libraries since 2005. She has over 25 years of management experience that started with owning a mixed martial arts school with her brother in the Dallas area. She is current ly the Women’s and Gender Studies and LGBTQ Studies Subject Librar ian as well as the library liaison to the campus gender and sexuality resource center. Julie is passionate about providing services and re sources for queer and trans students and coordinates a library-wide collaboration along with campus partners each spring for Campus Pride Week that provides programming for queers and allies alike, highlighting what the library has to offer to this community. She is at present Vice Chair of the Women & Gender Equity Network at UNT. Ju lie is active in the Texas Library Association, serving on the Legislative Committee, and previously served as Chair of the College and Univer sity Library Division. Her research interests include library manage ment-related topics and library services for the transgender commu nity. She is currently working on a study about workplace belonging for transgender and gender-nonconforming library employees.

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Kaitlyn Moody

Kaitlyn Moody is a Library Technical Assistant for the Government Documents/Serials Department at the University of South Ala bama’s Marx Library. She has a BS in Secondary Education and En glish, and recently received her MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has grown a real interest in working with govern ment documents during her time at South Alabama and wishes to more actively ensure that the LGBTQ+ community is accounted for in America’s written history.