Member: GLCC

The Stonewall Center is located at the University if Massachusetts in Amherst. I'm a library student who is volunteering to catalog the collection via LibraryThing. This profile is very much a work in progress, and I'm aiming to get it up-to-date by the end of January. --David

posted by stonewallcenter at 7:30 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

I see that your MCC collection is now 18 titles. I have pulled 17 of them. Apparently one of my boxes lost its label because I cannot find the box that contains Man's Body: An Owner's Manual. I can send the 17 books I have now. Just, let me know where to send them.

Julio

posted by mcc.library at 12:24 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2009

I have a huge event happening this weekend plus visiting parents-in-law but next week I'll get back to working on the library.

Julio

posted by mcc.library at 1:06 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2009

I will be happy to contact ONE Institute.

posted by BettcherForrest at 12:20 am (EST) on Oct 19, 2009

Sorry, won't be able to make the cataloging this Sat (we're doing a drywall repair event at our new house - complete with volunteers; I hope it goes well for you (and I hope I'll be able to help out in the future). I'll get the Happy Lesbian book in the mail Sat or Mon.

posted by PortiaLong at 10:11 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2009

I’ll be pulling out the books you’re interested in over the next couple of weeks. The books being weeded out have been put in crates and placed in a storage room. I’ll have to go back and sort them out according to their final destination. But I haven’t forgotten about you.

Julio

posted by mcc.library at 7:29 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2009

Thank you for creating the group!
To answer you question about call numbers for our books:

9780966882827 Keim, Adam G. History of the Quatrefoil Library.Golden Valley, MN : Friends of the Bill of Rights Foundation,
Gay libraries Minnesota

Z 721 .G39 K27 2009

9780966882810 Hanson, Dan C. History of the Minnesota Gay and Lesbian Legal Assistance : (MnGALLA). Golden Valley, MN : Friends of the Bill of Rights Foundation,
Legal assistance History
KF 336 .G39 H251 2009

We do copy cataloging 90% of the time. For those items not in WorldCat, we recruit some cataloging students from the local library school in for a cat & class party. We have a few library professionals volunteer & we rely on their advice ALOT!
Karen H.
Quatrefoil Library

posted by Quatrefoil_library at 12:32 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2009

I am in the process of weeding through the collection and removing volumes where we have multiple copies. Last year we received a sizeable donation of novels by lesbian authors from a couple that used to collect them and for some titles they had several copies. We also have multiple copies of books that were popular in their time and we have received the same donation from various people. So, the short answer is yes. We have already donated some to the PFLAG library in Richmond.

We don’t have a budget so we’d have to work out shipping. Take a look at the list and see what interests you and we’ll se what we can work out.

Julio

posted by mcc.library at 9:27 am (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

Thanks! I've joined a few of the GLBT groups... I wish I was seeing more activity.. however,
it seems everone is busy these days. It appears that good things are happening with your library.
How exciting to be moving into new digs.
I house our PFLAG Chapter's library at my house. I now need more bookshelves.
I also wish I could interest our membership in reading more books...
Do you have a blog or any special way that you try to promote your collection?

posted by PFLAG-ColumbiaHoCo at 4:07 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

GLCC –

I saw your new group GLBT Libraries, and thought I'd mention that there are scads of other groups flourishing here at LT that you would probably be interested in, and at least 11 others specifically GLB or T.

I know it is really hard to find things with the way the group search works. So you may not have been able to find them when you performed your search in the step before creating a new group.

What I have found that works best is: click the Groups tab, then go to the ~Complete groups list~ at the top right, then use your browser's ~find on this page~ function {my browser has it in the edit tab} to search for a specific interest. (Give my version of group search a try; search for your favorite authors, age groups, areas of the country, hobbies, schools - there are a bajillion interesting groups.) Searching that way, using the search term “GLBT", etc., yielded these other groups you may want to check out.

GLBT History - http://www.librarything.com/groups/glbth...
Gay Speculative Fiction - http://www.librarything.com/groups/gaysp...
Gay Coming Out Books - http://www.librarything.com/groups/gayco...
DataLounge - http://www.librarything.com/groups/datal...
Gay and Lesbian Bookstores - http://www.librarything.com/groups/gayan...
Queer and Trans Lit - http://www.librarything.com/groups/queer...
Gay Men - http://www.librarything.com/groups/gayme...
lesbrarian - http://www.librarything.com/groups/lesbr...
genderqueer - http://www.librarything.com/groups/gende...
Slashy Fantasy - http://www.librarything.com/groups/slash...
Queer Theory - http://www.librarything.com/groups/queer...

I hate to see a new member languishing with no one to talk with, when in reality, ~Groups~ is just brimming with folks in identical conversations. The current system just makes it so hard to find them. I have my fingers crossed for a future application to make that easier: group tags! Meantime, hope you enjoy LT!

posted by countrylife at 9:40 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2009