‘LGBTQ’ Cataloging for Inclusion or Exclusion
Poster | Monday, May 17, 2021 | 2:45pm – 4:00pm EST
My inquiry focused on comparing two ALA generated sources for Young Adult and Youth readers, the Rainbow Roundtable Recommended reading list and the Banned Book List. This exploratory paper was to open an inquiry into the effect of books and other library resources being tagged as ‘LGBTQ’ content and the impact that this may have on their use, accessibility and how this may lead to them being more likely to be challenged. I compared 5 years of recommended and most banned book lists. My poster shows the findings table which highlights that more than 3 in 4 of the most challenged books in the period observed were challenged for being either explicitly LGBTQ content or for being perceived to be inappropriate for the age of the reader or sexually explicit. The problem of increased visibility leading to higher bans is compounded by the effect that students, in order to access these materials, often must put themselves in the situation of potentially or actually outing themselves.
Presenter: Daryl Barker
Daryl Barker is a current graduate student at UCLA in the library and information science program where he focuses on college and academic librarianship. His current research and focus of study centers on issues of education access and legal rhetoric relating to queer civil rights cases in the Supreme Court. He graduated from Occidental in 2017 with a degree in politics and prior to attending he served in the US Navy Submarine Service.
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