The Business Meetings and Events Take Place (More Information Below)

Feminist Task Force ALA Annual Conference June 21 - 26, 2012

The SRRT Feminist Task Force (FTF) invites you to attend the Feminist Task Force Meetings. They are open to everyone. There are many opportunities for you including serving as an officer (coordinator, treasurer, secretary, etc.), help with the newsletter, Women in Libraries, on the wiki, help plan programs, share ideas about things you would like FTF to do and in other ways that you might design for yourself. We are always ready for new ideas. All FTF meetings and programs are highlighted below. You can find out what we are doing on our website, wiki and Facebook group.

The business meetings and events take place (more information below):

Meeting: Friday, June 22, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. at the Hilton Anaheim, Oceanside

Programs: Saturday, June 24, Introduction to Women’s Issues, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Hilton Anaheim - Laguna B

Sunday, June 27, Feminist Night at the Movies, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m., Anaheim Convention Center, 202A

This is a list of programs and meetings at the ALA Conference 2012 that may be of interest to FTF members and colleagues. The meetings and programs are in order by day and time.

Check out Women in Libraries for even more information.

Friday, June 22, 2012 hear from these seven member groups, to discuss their current efforts towards achieving a more Town Hall Meeting on Diversity diverse profession and to identify new opportunities 8:00am - 12:00pm for collaboration and support across the profession. Hilton Anaheim - California B The Diversity Town Hall is open to all conference Diversity has become an increasingly important issue attendees. within our profession and association. The five associations of ethnic librarians (AILA, APALA, Zines in Libraries: Collecting, Cataloging, and BCALA, CALA and REFORMA), the GLBTRT, and Community ASCLA’s LSSPS, serve as important forums for the 12:00pm - 4:00pm advancement of diversity and service to diverse Anaheim Convention Center - 211B users. The Town Hall will provide an opportunity to

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 1 Zines offer a unique way for libraries to expand their In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet print collections and connect with their communities policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it is in a time when so much of our work is going digital. time to fight for our rights before they are sold, Handmade publications that can cover any subject, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Every many zines represent perspectives rarely covered in day, the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace make other print media. Their celebration of print culture decisions that affect our physical freedom— but may seem anachronistic, but zines offer a range of without our consent. Yet the traditional solution to programming opportunities for youth and adults unaccountable corporate behavior—government alike. regulation— cannot stop the abuse of digital power on its own, and sometimes even contributes to it. Participants in the workshop will learn from librarians who have brought zines into their A clarion call to action, Consent of the Networked collections, as well as those who have used zines for shows that it is time to stop arguing over whether programming and outreach even before building the Internet empowers people, and address the collections. Topics include what zines are, the history urgent question of how technology should be of zines, how libraries are incorporating them, and governed to support the rights and liberties of users ways that they are being used to connect with around the world. community. You will leave with ideas for getting started with zines in your institution, no matter your ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rebecca MacKinnon works on budget or institutional culture. global Internet policy as a Schwartz Senior Fellow at $15 the New America Foundation. She is co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, and a former Opening General Session featuring Rebecca fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is on the board of the Committee to MacKinnon Protect Journalists and worked for twelve years as a 4:00pm - 5:15pm journalist in Asia, including as CNN’s Bureau Chief in Anaheim Convention Center – Ballroom A-E Tokyo and Beijing. The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it Sponsored by Basic Books has not. For every story about the web’s empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, Feminist Task Force Meeting I (SRRT) there are many more about the quiet corrosion of 7:30pm - 9:00pm civil liberties by companies and governments using Hilton Anaheim - Oceanside the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. FTF plans ALA conference programs and networks Sudden changes in Facebook’s features and privacy with other feminists and feminist organizations settings have exposed identities of protestors to within and without librarianship. New members are always welcome! (Included as part of SRRT All Task Force meeting)

SRRT All Task Forces Meeting 7:30pm - 9:00pm Hilton Anaheim - Oceanside police in Egypt and Iran. Apple removes politically controversial apps at the behest of governments as well as for its own commercial reasons. Dozens of Rainbow Project Task Force Meeting (SRRT / Western companies sell surveillance technology to GLBTRT) dictatorships around the world. Google struggles 7:30pm - 9:00pm with censorship demands from governments in a Hilton Anaheim - Oceanside range of countries—many of them democracies—as well as mounting public concern over the vast quantities of information it collects about its users.

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 2 Saturday, June 23, 2012 Not Your Mom's Graphic Novels: Giving Girls Options Beyond Wonder Woman COSWL (Committee on the Status of Women in 11:00am to 12:30pm Librarianship) Anaheim Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Poster 8:00am - 10:00am Area Table 4 Anaheim Marriott - Desert Springs Speaker: Anna Jorgensen GLBTRT Steering Committee Meeting I Speaker: Arianna Lechan, Dana Hall School Graphic novels bring to mind the stereotypical male 8:00am - 10:00am superhero, swooping in and saving the damsel in Hyatt Regency Orange County - Garden 1 distress. This perception of graphic novels is due, in part, to a history of male novelists writing specifically Now Showing @ ALA: Pink Ribbons Inc. for a male audience. Unfortunately, focus on only 8:00am - 10:00am the hero in graphic novels ignores the rise of the Anaheim Convention Center - 304C strong female protagonist, and of an increasing number of talented female authors and artists. The ubiquitous pink ribbons of breast cancer Librarians who are expanding or creating a graphic philanthropy - and the hand-in-hand marketing of novel collection are provided with criteria for brands and products associated with that evaluating the positive representation of women in philanthropy — permeates our culture, providing these novels. An examination of how women have assurance that we are engaged in a successful battle been represented historically in graphic novels offers against this insidious disease. But the campaign librarians additional background helpful in selecting obscures the reality and facts of breast cancer – graphic novels that will appeal to girls. The poster more and more women are diagnosed with breast enhances the presentation with enlarged pages from cancer every year, and face the same treatment several recommended titles, visual representations options they did 40 years ago. Yet women are also of women through graphic novel history (1920- the most influential market group, buying 80 percent 2012), and a timeline of the graphic novel's of consumer products and making most major development. Resource lists and examples of household purchasing decisions. So then who really recommended titles from multiple genres are benefits from the pink ribbon campaigns — the provided. cause or the company? And what if the very companies and products that profit from their Fabulous Havens: Libraries as Safe Spaces for association have actually contributed to the the Needs of LGBT Youth problem? In showing the real story of breast cancer 1:30pm - 3:30pm and the lives of those who fight it, Pink Ribbons, Inc. Anaheim Convention Center - 201C reveals the co-opting of what marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause." Preview: An interactive workshop, presented by GLSEN (Gay, http://firstrunfeatures.com/trailers_pinkribbonsinc. Lesbian & Straight Education Network) staff will html focus on ways libraries can create safe, respectful Running Time: 98 minutes and healthy environments for all youth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. SRRT Action Council Meeting I RSVP required - http://bit.ly/fabhavens. 8:30am - 12:30pm (There are 2 possible days you can attend this Red Lion Hotel Anaheim - Serafina C & D workshop. You only need to attend one.)

GLBTRT All Committee Meeting Introduction to Women's Issues in ALA 10:30am - 12:00pm 1:30pm - 3:30pm Anaheim Marriott - Grand Salon G-H Hilton Anaheim - Laguna B Meeting of GLBT RT committees to discuss work of ACRL/WGSS, FTF, COSWL co-sponsors the committee and to interact with other committees.

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 3 Annual discussion session sponsored by SRRT WGSS 2013 Conference Planning Committee Feminist Task Force (FTF), the ACRL Women & 8:00am - 10:00am Gender Studies Section (WGSS) and the Committee Disneyland Hotel - Congo on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL). ALA Council I This year’s discussion will be about the recently completed “Research Project on Gender Presence 9:00am - 12:00pm in ALA Conference Presentations.” We will discuss Anaheim Marriott - Platinum 1-6 the findings and how we are going to use the This is a meeting of the policy body of the information. Association.

ALA Council / Executive Board / Membership Documenting Sexual Dissidence and Diversity in Information Session France, Italy and Spain 3:30pm - 5:00pm 10:30am - 12:00pm Anaheim Marriott - Platinum 1-6 Anaheim Convention Center201A Any member of the association may participate in Sponsored by WESS/ACRL the information session. Presenters: Gerard Koskovich, Independent Scholar WGSS General Membership Forum James Michael Fortney, Assistant Coordinator of the 4:00pm - 5:30pm Italian Program, University of Illinois Chicago Mili Hernandez, Publisher of Spain's LGBT publisher Disneyland Hotel - Castle C EGALES and owner of Madri's LGBT book store The Membership meeting will be followed by a Berkana Poster Session. Documenting and preserving minority cultures is an ALA Membership Meeting ongoing challenge for libraries and archives as most 5:00pm - 6:00pm of this cultural production continues to exist beyond Anaheim Marriott - Platinum 1-6 the mainstream. Such is the case for sexual minorities in progressive societies like those of WGSS Social France, Italy and Spain. The various voices from a 6:00pm - 8:00pm panel (an independent researcher, a literary scholar, an academic librarian, and an activist-publisher) Bar Louie Tavern and Grill at the Anaheim provide a learning opportunity not only to assess Garden Walk voids in our collections but also offer novel 321 W. Katella Avenue strategies for addressing such gaps.

SRRT Membership Meeting and Social WGSS All Committees Meeting 8:00pm - 11:00pm 10:30am - 12:00pm Hilton Anaheim - Pacific A Disneyland Hotel - Castle A & B Bring your concerns to the SRRT Membership Meeting. If you are new, learn about what SRRT does GLBTRT Membership Meeting and how to get involved. If you have been involved, 10:30am - 12:00pm meet some new people. Relax at the social. Enjoy some appetizers, cash bar, and entertainment. Anaheim Marriott - Grand Salon D Meeting of the membership of the round table. Chance to hear updates and make proposals to the Steering Committee. Sunday, June 24, 2012 LAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group WGSS 2012 Conference Planning Committee 10:30am - 12:00pm 08:00am - 10:00am Doubletree Suites - Tuscany DE Disneyland Hotel - Explorer

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 4 Please join us for an informal general discussion on Joyce Latham, "Heat, Humility, and Hubris: the leadership styles and challenges. Conundrum of the Fiske Report" (feminist evaluation Discussion topics: of the Fiske Report). 1. What is your leadership style? Come share your thoughts and ideas on different leadership style SRRT Action Council Meeting II theories such as transformational, transactional, 1:30pm - 5:30pm relational, and visionary. Suggested Reading: Anaheim Convention Center - 212B Connective Leadership: Female Leadership Styles in the 21st-Century Workplace. PLG Meeting/Program 2. How do you handle leadership challenges? Share 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. managerial issues and possible solutions concerning Hyatt Regency Orange County, Royal Ballroom A leadership challenges such as managing meetings. Our guest speaker will be Sara Zettervall, LIS Suggested Reading: Meet the Meeting Killers. candidate at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. Sara is the winner of the 2012 Miriam Braverman ALA-APA Council Memorial Prize and will discuss her prize-winning 12:00pm - 12:30pm essay "Through a Distant Lens: Visions of Native Anaheim Marriott - Platinum 1-6 Hawaiians in Children's Picture Books." This is a meeting of the ALA-APA governing and WGSS Meeting policy-making body. 4:00pm - 0:30pm Disneyland Hotel - Monorail B & C Fabulous Havens: Libraries as Safe Spaces for Committee meeting, Governance/Membership the Needs of LGBT Youth Meeting 1:30pm - 3:30pm GLBTRT Social Anaheim Convention Center - 209B An interactive workshop, presented by GLSEN (Gay, 6:00pm - 08:00pm Lesbian & Straight Education Network) staff will Tortilla Jo’s focus on way libraries can create safe, respectful and Social offers a chance for members to network and healthy environments for all youth, regardless of meet new members. Cash bar, with appetizers sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. served. Donations encouraged to covers costs. RSVP required - http://bit.ly/fabhavens. Held at: (There are 2 possible days you can attend this Tortilla Jo's workshop. You only need to attend one.) 1510 Disneyland Drive, Building A Downtown Disney District Research Forum (LHRT) 1:30pm - 3:30pm PLG Braverman Dinner Hilton Anaheim - Laguna B 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. A panel of presentations on library history Spicy Thai Restaurant This year’s theme: LHRT Research Forum is 4715 W. Chapman Ave. Intellectual Freedom and Libraries in America and PLG members and friends are cordially invited to Abroad: Historical Perspectives. attend the 2012 PLG / Braverman Dinner in Anaheim. This year's Braverman Memorial Prize will Eric Novotny, "From Inferno to Freedom: Expanding be presented to Sara Zettervall, LIS candidate at St. Access in the Chicago Public Library, 1910-1936"; Catherine University in St. Paul, MN, for her essay Doug Campbell, "Re-examining the Origins of the "Through a Distant Lens: Visions of Native Hawaiians Adoption of ALA’s Bill of Rights"; in Children's Picture Books." Lim Peng Han, "The Japanese occupation of Singapore and the forgotten libraries at the civilian Spicy Thai is reasonably priced and provides a wide goals at Changi and Sime Road Camp, 1942-1945"; range of vegetarian options. Hope to see you there!

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 5 Feminist Night at the Movies soon earned the reputation of being fierce, loyal 8:00pm - 10:00pm and dependable and tougher than their male Anaheim Convention Center - 202A colleagues. Facing gender stereotypes and the Sponsored by FTF problems that come with life on the impoverished reservation, the women became known as some of the country’s most elite firefighters. From director Sande Zeig and executive producer Heather Rae (Cherokee), APACHE 8 combines archival footage and present-day interviews and focuses primarily on four women from different generations of Apache 8 crewmembers, who speak tenderly and often humorously of hardship, loss, family, 1. Sarabah community and pride in being a firefighter. The A film by Maria Luisa Gambale & Gloria Bremer, women are separated from their families, face tribe Executive Produced by Steven Lawrence initiation, and struggle to make a living in a US/Senegal, 2011, 60 minutes, Color, DVD, community ravaged by unemployment and French/German/Diola/Wolof, substance abuse. But while the women may have initially set out to try and earn a living in their Rapper, singer and activist, Sister Fa is hero to economically challenged community, they quickly young women in Senegal and an unstoppable force discover an inner strength and resilience that for social change. A childhood victim of female speaks to their traditions and beliefs as Native genital cutting (FGC), she decided to tackle the women. issue by starting a grassroots campaign, “Education Without Excision,” which uses her music and Monday, June 25, 2012 persuasive powers to end the practice. But until 2010 there’s one place she had never brought her Insert Catchy Label Here or the End of Gen Y, message – back home to her own village of Thionck Essyl, where she fears rejection. Sarabah follows Digital Natives and the Millennial Student Myth Sister Fa on this challenging journey, where she 8:00am - 10:00am speaks out passionately to female elders and Anaheim Convention Center - 205A students alike, and stages a rousing concert that Sponsored by WGSS has the community on its feet. A portrait of an The program will look at how changing artist as activist, Sarabah shows the extraordinary demographics effects academic library user resilience, passion and creativity of a woman who populations and how libraries prepare for the boldly challenges gender and cultural norms. It’s an changes. Issues addressed may include, inspiring story of courage, hope and change. demographic projections, users in two-year, four- year and vocational and graduate institutions, economic issues, serving first generation students, the digital divide, race/class/gender/age, Latino students in higher education, information literacy, technology trends and lib 2.0, assessment and ethnographic approaches to understanding users.

Moderator: Pamela Mann, Reference, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, St. Mary's College of Maryland 2. Apache 8 Speaker: Roberto C. Delgadillo, Humanities, Social A film by Sande Zeig Science and Government Information Services 2011, 57 minutes, Color, DVD, English/Apache, Manager, University of California - Davis Speaker: Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor, For 30 years, the all-female Apache 8 unit has Department of Women's Studies, University of protected their reservation from fire and also Albany (SUNY) responded to wildfires around the nation. This Speaker: Yago S. Cura, Librarian, Los Angeles Public group of firefighters, which recently became co-ed, Library

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 6 Stonewall Book Awards Brunch (GLBT RT) book Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American 10:30am - 02:00pm Portraiture, we will have a message from them. Anaheim Marriott - Grand Salon A-D Honor book authors will also be present to talk about their books. Noted activist, journalist and author Jeanne Cordova is the keynote speaker for the 2012 Tickets are $55 including brunch. For more Stonewall Book Awards. Cordova’s new information, and to register, please visit memoir “When We Were Outlaws” has http://www.alaannual.org/. Event code: GBT1. been published to great critical acclaim by Spinsters Ink. Coming Out in Print: The LGBT Literary . Landscape Today (GLBTRT) 4:00pm - 5:30pm Anaheim Convention Center - 202B Join us for a lively discussion about the LGBT literary scene, the notable books in our community, and the institutions that help LGBT writers, readers, publishers and librarians. Panel participants include Tony Valenzuela (Executive Director of LLF), Monica Wayne Hoffman will talk about his 2012 Barbara Carter (Program Coordinator, LGBT Writers in Gittings Literature Award-winning book Sweet Like Schools Program, LLF), Wayne Hoffman (author of Sugar. Sweet Like Sugar), & Jane Cothron (GLBT RT Rainbow Project).

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

ALA Council III Tuesday, 06/26/2012 - 07:45am - 09:15am Hear Michael Bronski discuss his 2012 Israel Fishman Anaheim Marriott - Platinum 1-6 Non-Fiction Award-winning A Queer History of the Governance/Membership Meeting United States (Revisioning American History). This is a meeting of ALA's policy-making and governing body.

GLBTRT Steering Committee Meeting II 9:00am - 11:00am Anaheim Convention Center - 212A

Bil Wright will speak about his 2012 Mike Morgan & Hotels Map Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award-winner, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy. Acronyms

ALA – American Library Association

ALA-APA – ALA-Allied Professional Association

ACRL – Association of College and Research Libraries Although authors Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward cannot be with us to talk about the exhibit and

http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules 7 COSWL – Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship

FTF – Feminist Task Force & Amelia Bloomer Project

GLBTRT – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table

LAMA – Library Leadership and Management Association

LHRT – Library History Round Table

Radical Reference

Rainbow Project Task Force

PLG – Progressive Librarians Guild

SRRT – Social Responsibilities Round Table

WESS – Western European Studies Section

WGSS – Women & Gender Studies Section

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