G• BIF Eve111s at Annual Conference June 22-29, 1995
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GLBlf marc11as In die Cb~ P11de Dar Parade, DETAILS AT CO•FERENCE G• BIF Eve111s at Annual Conference June 22-29, 1995 M&1alluslllp Meellag(ELECTIOEI) 9:30-11:30 am, &vd• Grand-Ballroom 2 Pi•conferaace: Reaching Inside - Rwlllng Book Awards Commlllee(CLOSED MTG.) OUT: Suppoidng Growth la llbra1tas & SoclelJ 2-4 pm, llJ•Df Columbm-A (PRE-PAID REG OaY) 9a••• 5 pm, Palmer House Read-A-Load 4:30-5:30 pm, Palnur llo1•e, Monroe Ballroom Aull10r Reception 5-8 pm, G......._llalt GaJ and l•blaa P1"0gram Plannlng Committee l.lbrarr and Arclahres, 3352 ._ Paa u a-10 p111f Pah1ur Home Steeltng Colllllllltae 11-10 ,,..., Palmer 11o.. Program Plannlng Committee 9:30-11 am, Hllton Conference SC Booll Awards Commlaea (CLOSm MIG.) 2-4 pm, Palmer Home PROGRAM: Importance of Gar and leslllan L111....,a1sto..,, sponsored bJ Ille........, lllSlorr Roumd Tallie, 2-4 pm, TBA 25111 Annlveasary Gala Dlaw (PRE-PAID O•LYJ 7-9:30 pm, later-Cont111&11•al, Balrooun of lbe Amettcas GLBlf BookAwa1ds Pa•entalloa 9:30-10:30 11m, lnter-Condneatal, BaDroom of the Americas Wendy Thomas, Female Co-Chair Well, I guess this is the home stretch! When you read this, it will Leon Bey, Male Co-Chair be a few weeks before ALA 's Annual Conference in Chicago and the GLBTF's 25th Anniversary. This issue contains the full sched By the time you receive this Newsletter (and let's hope it is before ule of our events and meetings, including several special celebra June 19 - the deadline for purchasing tickets to GLBTF's 25th tions to commemorate the establishment of the task force, the frrst Anniversary Dinner Gala Dinner), all the planning will be in place g/l/b professional organization in the U.S. Leon and I especially to celebrate a milestone event. If you are looking for a ticket, hope to see all of you at our Gala Dinner on Saturday, June 24, contact Roland Hansen. There is a fonn for Gala Dinner tickets in 1995. This will be a wonderful evening, featuring dinner speaker thisNewsl etter. Roland and his Chicago committee have organized Quentin Crisp and the presentation of our Book A wards. If you a festive evening for June 24. You won't want to miss it! haven't purchased your tickets for the Gala Dinner, please do so as soon as possible: the deadline is June 19 and tickets will not be It is gratifying to see all the volunteer planning on behalf ofour 25th available at the door. Anniversary. Wendy and I invite you to join us for all the exciting activities planned for the celebration of twenty-five years of the In addition to the Gala Dinner, we will be having our frrst all-day first gay. lesbian and bisexual professional organization in the preconference on Friday, June 23, 1995. (Please note that the United States, founded 1970. It's a terrific lineup, from the special registration deadline for the preconference has already passed.) pre-conference to the dinner with keynote speaker Mr. Quentin Entitled ''Reaching Inside, Reaching OUT: Supporting Growth in Crisp, the annual book awards, with three of the four authors Libraries and Society," the preconference will feature keynote scheduled to attend - the Book Awards presentation follows the speaker Donna Minkowitz, columnist for the Village Voice and the Gala Dinner on the 24th in the Hotel Intercontinental - join us at Advocate, as well as several breakout sessions on topics relating to 9:30 p.m. The Book Awards Presentation is open to all andfree of g/l/b library issues. Other 25th Anniversary events inlcude a charge! Don't miss the special reception in the Gerber-Hart reception at the Gerber-Hart Library, marching in Chicago's Gay Library and Archives on Friday, featuring local authors and there's Pride parade, and the usual schedule of GLBTF meetings. The the Library History Roundtable program on Saturday, the Read-A GLBTF will be staffing the SRRT booth in the exhibit hall in Loud, the Pride Parade, etc. See the schedule on page 1 for details. Chicago on Saturday, June 24, 1995, so please stop by and visit us. Above all, come join us in the celebration! Also, visit the Advocate booth and thank them for their support for our Gala Dinner. We are grateful to The Advocate for their support of the Gala Dinner, but we still need to raise additional funds. To cover the Although we have all been focusing on the 25th Anniversary deficit of selling $50 tickets at $30 each to 141 GLBTF Newsletter events, there are other new developments since Midwinter: Subscribers, a number of commemorative items are being sold. H you did not receive a mail order form listing these items (T-Shirts with the Task Force logo; coffee mugs with GLBTF, 25th Anniver sary, Chicago, June 24.1995; conference badge 25th Anniversary ribbons; autographed photos of Mr. Quentin Crisp), please contact me (address below) and I'll send a copy. Since t-shirts require advance orders, we'll not have any available at Conference; how ever, be prepared be prepared to buy (and sell!) mugs, ribbons and photos. I'd especially appreciate your help in selling these items at Conference. Get in contact with me if you are interested in being a salesperson for GLBTF. All profits go to cover the deficit. We have no "slush" funds. Other fundraising did not meet expecta tions. With your help we'll be able to cover the deficit. It's a challenging situation and I'm putting all my efforts into resolving it. I look forward to your support and to celebrating with you at the annual conference. Leon Bey Dayton & Montgomery Co. Public Library 215 E. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402-2103 (513) 227-9500, ext 324 (voice mail) (S13) 227-9528 (FAX) ADS [email protected] T At press time, we were on the verge ofestablishing a listserv for the GLBTF Steering Committee members, which will greatly facilitate communication between conferences (and hopefully cut down on those phone/fax bills). T We have started to work on fundraising for the long-team, 199& GLBTF Book Awards in hopes of making the book awards self-sustaining. The American Library Association Gay. Lesbian, and Bisexual T Leon and I have revised Roland Hansen's GLB1F info Book Awards Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the sheet, which we will send to those who inquire about the 1995 Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Book Awards. The awards are given GLBTF. annually to two books of exceptional merit examining lesbian, gay and/or bi experience and published during the prior calendar year. T We now have official GLBTF letterhead, designed by Established in 1971, the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Awards Publicity Chair Mark Martin. are the nation's oldest and most long-lived. The award winning books were selected by a group of thirteen academic, public, and T I have started something which I hope future co-chairs will special librarians from institutions throughout the United States. continue: writing welcome letters to all ' new' GLB1F meet This year the ten finalists considered for the awards were selected ing attendees after each conference. I hope this will be a way from a list of 64 nominated titles, which in turn were drawn from to increase membership and get more people involved! a listing of over eight hundred titles, fiction and non-fiction, that were identified as having gay, lesbian, or bisexual content Speaking of getting involved ... It's time, once again, to ask for volunteers for various GLBTF positions. First, we will have an Literature Award election for Male Co-chair (1995-1997) during the Membership Meeting in Chicago (Monday, June 26, 9:3012:30). If you are The 1995 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award for Literature interested in running for Male Co-chair, or would like to nominate goes to Marion Dane Bauer for Ami Blue?:ComingOutfrom the someone to run, please submit names to GLBTF Secretary Michael Silence (HarperCollins). NitzbeforeJune 17, 1995 inorderfortheballottobeprepared. You Non-Fiction Award can reach Michael by e-mail ([email protected]) orphone(414/ 832-61 84). Please remember that to vote you must be a SRRT Two books tied for the 1995 Nonfiction a ward: Dorothy Allison's member (we'll have the membership list) and that you must be Skin: Talking About Sex, Class&: Literature (Firebrand Books) present at the Membership Meeting. FYI, although we 're asking and ... for nominations in advance, our by-laws indicate that showing up Phillip Shennan' sand Samuel Bernstein's Uncommon Heroes: A at the Membership Meeting and letting us know that you want to Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian run is allowed. Americans (Fletcher Press) Also, we need a new Clearinghouse Co-coordinator. a position that Both books were selected froe11 a list of ten finalists. Runners up of the is appointed, not elected. As many of you know, the Clearinghouse awa-d.s, all wCl'thy of recognitioo as some of the best books of 1994, work has been shared by Gail Defendorf and Dan Hodge for the last include: year. Dan has to resign after Annual, so we need a new Co Utaratura Flnallsts coordinator. If you are interested in working on the Clearing - house, which is a unique collection of g/J/b bibliographies, reading T Campo, Rafael. The Other Man was Me: A Voyage to Jiu New lists, and documents, please let me know as soon as possible. If you World (Arte Publico Press) would like more infonnation about what the position would entail, T Fadennan, Lillian, ed Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of contact Gail Defendorf ([email protected]; phone: Lesbian and Bisexual Littraturefrom the Seventeenth Century 302/831-8721).