[Fla-facrl] Call for Chapter Proposals: "Censorship Is a Drag" – Deadline April 1, 2023

[Shane Roopnarine]

Hello all, please contact Jason Phillips if you have any questions.

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Working Book Title: Censorship Is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming
Under Siege in Academic Libraries
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Editors: Jason D. Phillips and Jordan Ruud



Submission Link: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinyurl.com/censorshipisadrag__;!!PhOWcWs!0qaGkNDMrf8Z7avwMRbjz6C2t-ZdoF3HSEqDtqKVaQQPGuV3kNUpkqvWmgseRX52SILi2wT_0fJpLvfdwdRemWfdrgxfGwHw$ 



Libraries, long tasked with defending intellectual freedom, find themselves
under siege with threats of censorship for carrying
gender/sexuality-related materials or holding LGBTQ-related events. Efforts
to censor materials and control programming arguably threaten to have a
chilling effect on libraries’ ability to carry out their core missions. We
are soliciting contributions from across the library ecosystem exploring
the significance of these threats and how librarians have responded,
offering an intellectual and practical toolkit to help libraries make their
way through this new intellectual climate.



Topics under consideration might include:



   - Censorship of programming
   - Censorship of materials at any point in the acquisitions cycle
   - Preemptive caution (anticipation of censorship struggles) exerting a
   chilling effect on intellectual freedom
   - How classification can impede discoverability of controversial
   materials: “bibliographic invisibility”
   - Visibility of LGBTQ topics in displays
   - LGBTQ YA/children’s lit and its curricular role
   - Safe spaces for digital scholarship
   - The role and inclusion of LGBTQ materials, services, and outreach
   - Responsive collection development policy to address potential
   challenges
   - Administrative interference (campus, school, or public)
   - Workplace protections for LGBTQ personnel or those involved in LGBTQ
   collection development/programming
   - Information barriers creating a non-inclusive environment
   - Building design as a barrier to vulnerable populations (trans people)
   - Impact of LGBTQ materials and/or programming on student
   retention/mental health
   - The erosion of tenure as a threat to protection of intellectual freedom
   - Reflection on the role of LGBTQ materials as part of a collection, and
   as an aspect of overall library/campus DEI strategies
   - Politicization of library funding



We welcome contributions discussing specific situations, and also
reflections of a more general nature on the importance of, and threats to,
intellectual freedom.



Deadlines:



   - April 1, 2023: abstracts due
   - April 30, 2023: notification of acceptance
   - September 1, 2023: drafts due
   - December 1, 2023: final revisions due
   - December 31, 2023: final submission of manuscript



Questions:



If you have questions, please feel free to ask the editors:

   - Jason D. Phillips (he/him) / jason.phillips at ucf.edu
   - Jordan Ruud (he/him) / jordan.ruud at uafs.edu



Jason D. Phillips, MLIS, MA

Pronouns: he/him/his



Social Sciences Librarian

UCF Libraries - Research & Information Services
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