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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · Jul 25
📣 We're looking for a new chair for the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network.

To apply, please send a short CV and cover letter to Beth Montague-Hellen at [email protected]

#LISjobs #libraries #Library #volunteers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚
LGBTQ+ Chair Role Description Purpose of role: To act as one of the leading officers for the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network. Inform the decisions made to raise awareness and advise Library, Knowledge, and Information workers in the UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. This role is open to people who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. Responsibilities: Coordinate the activities of the LGBTQ+ Network and ensure it meets its core offer and annual priorities as set out in the business plan. Act as lead spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ Network and where appropriate, represent the LGBTQ+ Network at CILIP meetings and external events and where necessary, organise alternative representatives. To work with other officers and committee members to prepare the business plan and annual report. To liaise with the other co-chair & secretary regarding communication with committee members. To work with the chair and treasurer to maintain an effective overview of the financial position of the LGBTQ+ Network. To be the key link with CILIP to ensure professional issues relating to Network members, and collaborate with the other committee members on initiatives and responses to policy developments. To promote the membership and benefits of the LGBTQ+ Network and CILIP as a wider organisation within the library and information profession. CILIP is committed to championing diversity, inclusion and representation. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQ+ candidates, who have historically been under-represented on our committees.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 1d
Wishing everyone a slightly early Happy #ComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈 (11/10/25) 📕📙💛📗📘💜
photo of a 3 book shelves full of books. The books are all different heights and are ordered in colour order. The colour order is representative of the pride flag.
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 2d
CILIP & 6 partners wrote @ Chancellor welcoming £10m investment in school libraries & offering support from our expert members to max long-term impact, & outlined how support for school/public librarians, & School Library Services could do even more for kids e.g. www.greatschoollibraries.org.uk
Home | Great School Libraries
Every child deserves a great school library. This three-year campaign aims to raise awareness of the power of school libraries in literacy and inquiry-based learning.
www.greatschoollibraries.org.uk
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LILAC Conference @lilacconf.bsky.social · 1d
Did you know that @infolitgroup.bsky.social can provide informal feedback on your draft abstract for #LILAC26 ? If you want to check if your idea is suitable, or you just want someone to look over your draft, email [email protected] before 16:00 (GMT) on Thursday 30 Oct.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 2d
great pic!
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 3d
🏳️‍🌈 Happy #InternationalLesbianDay to all the lesbians in #Library Land out there! 👭🪓❤️🧡🤍💗💜
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Image 1: From the #archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social
Image 2: Article from a newspaper reporting on 2023 census data.
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Lesbian
#WLW
photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle' A snip from a newspaper article with the headline: "Revealed the professions with the most LGB employees. The text underneath the headline reads: Census data shows librarians, café workers and flight crew have the highest proportion of homosexual workers-with roofers bringing up the rear. The two pictures below the head Aside view of a librarian handing some books from shelves to somebody else and a picture of a lollipop crossing sig
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d
World Economic Forum's report on media & information literacy, with libraries featured throughout www.weforum.org/publications....
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National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social · 5d
Deadline approaching! Get in touch by 10th Oct
NAG Webinar Week 2025: share your recent library projects with the wider community, running 17-21 November
nag.org.uk/webinar-week...
NAG membership not required to present or watch; all sessions will be open to everyone and all recordings open access.
NAG Webinar Week 17-21 November 2025 Call for submissions Open to all Image of an open laptop with NAG logo on screen https://nag.org.uk/webinar-week-2025/
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 5d
"I’m A Queer School Librarian, And Book Bans Enrage Me — 'My Straight Students Feel Unsafe Around A Gay Self-Help Book'" ⬇️
www.yourtango.com/self/queer-s...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#LGBTQ
#Lesbian
#Gay
#Bisexual
#Trans
#Queer
#SchoolLibrarian
#BannedBooksWeekUK
I’m A Queer School Librarian, And Book Bans Enrage Me — 'My Straight Students Feel Unsafe Around A Gay Self-Help Book'
To some, I probably represent the sins of a “woke” society. But I want to live in a world where I can feel safe to be my true self.
www.yourtango.com
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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 8d
Banned Books Week UK begins this Sunday! Whether you're a reader, a bookseller, a librarian or a writer, there are lots of ways to get involved, big and small. Find out more and don’t forget to spread the word: #BannedBooksWeekUK www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...
Banned Books Week UK - Index on Censorship
Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025. It’s a week to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced
www.indexoncensorship.org
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 9d
📚Book: Radical Cataloging- Essays at the Front
Includes chapters:
📗Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming
📘A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access

tinyurl.com/bdzde3sa

#Catalogue
#Metadata
#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#EDI #DEI
#LGBTQ
Radical Cataloging - McFarland
Radical Cataloging Essays at the Front Edited by K.R. Roberto 978-0-7864-3543-2 978-1-4766-0512-8
mcfarlandbooks.com
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 11d
Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as leading officer, informing the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those identifying as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...
CILIP LGBTQ+ NETWORK logo
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 12d
'The Gay Librarian: A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes Towards Professional Gender Issues' ⬇️
libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/j_...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
libres.uncg.edu
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 9d
📚Book: Radical Cataloging- Essays at the Front
Includes chapters:
📗Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming
📘A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access

tinyurl.com/bdzde3sa

#Catalogue
#Metadata
#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#EDI #DEI
#LGBTQ
Radical Cataloging - McFarland
Radical Cataloging Essays at the Front Edited by K.R. Roberto 978-0-7864-3543-2 978-1-4766-0512-8
mcfarlandbooks.com
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 9d
📚Privacy and Transgender identities – a perspective from a (very tired) library student 🔽

hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/p...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#LGBTQ
#Trans
#Queer
#HE
#Academia
Privacy and Transgender identities – a perspective from a (very tired) library student
One of my extracurricular activities the last couple of months has been organizing a panel on the ethical use and privacy of using queer peoples’ data in research and libraries, which has led me to…
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LILAC Conference @lilacconf.bsky.social · 11d
If you’re thinking of submitting an abstract for #LILAC26 but would like some practical tips, join the @infolitgroup.bsky.social on Friday (3 Oct) 12-1pm BST for their ‘Submitting a LILAC abstract’ online workshop. Book your place ⬇️
Select tickets – Submitting a LILAC abstract – Teams
Submitting a LILAC abstract – Teams, Fri 3 Oct 2025 - Facilitators: Laura Woods and Sam Aston We would like to invite you to attend a workshop to discuss practical tips for submitting an abstract to…
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 11d
‘No, that’s fascism’: the librarian who defied Russia’s purge of LGBTQ+ books' ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/d...

#Library
#Librarian
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#AmReading
#BookSky
‘No, that’s fascism’: the librarian who defied Russia’s purge of LGBTQ+ books
When Vladimir Kosarevsky was ordered to destroy gay novels, he raised the alarm instead – then went to Spain to rebuild his life
www.theguardian.com
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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 12d
With a trained librarian, right? RIGHT?
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 12d
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England
Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech
www.theguardian.com
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 12d
'The Gay Librarian: A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes Towards Professional Gender Issues' ⬇️
libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/j_...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Research
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Gay
libres.uncg.edu
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 12d
'Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me?'

www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/s...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#Employment
#Workplace
#LGBTQ
#Lesbian
#Gay
#Bisexual
#Trans
#Queer
Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me? (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 24d
📝'Being Seen: Gender Identity and Performance as a Professional Resource in Library Work' 🔽
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

#Library
#Librarian
#LibraryWorker
#LGBTQ
Being Seen: Gender Identity and Performance as a Professional Resource in Library Work | Bryant | College & Research Libraries
Being Seen: Gender Identity and Performance as a Professional Resource in Library Work
crl.acrl.org
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Sep 10
Book stairs. Balamand University, Lebanon.

(source: dreamstime.com/staircase-know…)
A set of concrete steps that are painted to look like varying book spines
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 25d
Not quite #libraries, but GLAM related:

#Archive 📜
#Archives
#LGBT
#LGBTQ
#Queer
#History
#Heritage
#Collections
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 25d
CFP: Mundane Queer History, University of Bergen www4.uib.no/en/research/...
Mundane Queer History Conference 2026 | UiB
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 25d
Liminal Space: Identifying Bisexual Materials in Public Library Catalogs ⬇️

cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/mast...
💗💜💙
#Library
#Bisexual
#Catalogue
#Catalog
Liminal Space: Identifying Bisexual Materials in Public Library Catalogs
Liminal Space: Identifying Bisexual Materials in Public Library Catalogs
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 25d
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · Sep 2
Might be an interesting book for folks wanting to read about #LGBTQ+ #Librarians:
Liberating minds : the stories and professional lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual librarians and their advocates. 1997 (ISBN 9780786403639)

#Library
#Employment
#Workplace
#queer
search.worldcat.org/title/36284005
Liberating minds : the stories and professional lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual librarians and their advocates | WorldCat.org
Liberating minds : the stories and professional lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual librarians and their advocates | WorldCat.org
search.worldcat.org
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 25d
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · Sep 2
"as #librarians, #lesbian and #bisexual women may have higher success and satisfaction in the management of sexual identity in the #workplace than women in other professions."

From the archive:
Workplace identity management issues of Lesbian and Bisexual Librarians⬇️
cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/mast...
a librarian is sitting at a desk in front of a bookshelf
ALT: a librarian is sitting at a desk in front of a bookshelf
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