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Gay-Themed Books in Oregon Public and Academic Libraries
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Gay-Themed Books in Oregon Public and Academic Libraries
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ABC-CLIO
publication year
2003
description
The present study is designed to assess the strengths of gay-themed collections in Oregon libraries and to determine if libraries of different types, sizes, and locations share common collecting patterns. The authors also sought to understand how Oregon libraries are responding to the needs of Oregon’s GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and, by extension, to the rapid growth of the literature on gay-themed topics over the past decades. The authors did not include periodicals, videos, and other non-book materials within this survey’s scope. Nor did they seek to determine the proportion of pro- to anti-gay titles or the “quality” of these collections. Because of the subjectivity involved in determining if a novel is, or is not, a "gay" novel, fiction is also excluded.
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reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Oberg, Larry R.
Klein, Gary M.