Archive for the 'helpers' Category

archive list

Here is a list of online libraries and archives dealing with HIV/AIDS information.

step in the right direction

The Rural AIDS Action Network in Minnesota is launching a Libraries Fight HIV/AIDS campaign in partnership with the MLA today.

exhibits at libraries today

gay library history

And, as some worthwhile related reading if you’re not too up on the gay library subculture: “They Sure Got to Prove It on Me”: Millennial
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History
by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Without putting too fine a point on recent findings that suggest
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]

are librarians doing enough?

A South African library association’s newsletter asks if librarians are doing enough about the HIV/AIDS pandemic. [pdf]

NYPL is always ahead of the game info-wise

NYPL does HIV/AIDS technology training workshops at their libraries and have a helpful PDF pathfinder [also in Spanish] for finding AIDS/HIV information online.

bibliocide?

As I suspected, getting my name in the New York Times has resulted in a lot of friendly mail and link submissions. A few pages I’ve liked are: Bibliocide, The History of the Wisconsin Library School SLIS, and How Not to Handle a Complaint #1-5 from NHLA.

book drive

Book drive in Sierra Leone. Can you help refill the shelves of the Kalangba Agricultural Secondary School? More info is here.

bring a book to work week

I’m not exactly sure when this is happening, but some major employers in the UK are getting together for Bring a Book to Work Week to send books to some of the world’s poorest countries. [thanks eoin]