Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and TransgenderedHealth Science Librarians
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgendered
Editor: Sally Harver
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas - Library
1. SIG Poster accepted to MLA 1999! (Robb, Sally and Nancy)
2. SIG to appear soon in MLA NEWS! (Sally)
3. Chicago is Your Kinda Town! (Jerry)
4. Hotel reservations - reminder (Richard)
5. SIG Mission Statement (Robb and others)
6. Tentative agenda for business meeting, MLA 1999 (Robb and Jean)
7. An aside from a sister (Jean)
8. Member news (Nancy, Pat, Jolene and Chris)
********************************************************************** SIG POSTER ACCEPTED TO MLA 1999! After several submissions to MLA national conferences, the SIG poster has been accepted to the 1999 MLA conference in Chicago! We are quite proud! We are also quite nervous, as we could definitely use some assistance from the membership. We would like to update the poster, and also have some handouts with such pertinent information as the SIG Position Statement, Mission Statement and perhaps some bibliographies. Also, if you would be willing to help staff the poster, set up, take down, etc., this would be most appreciated. This is our chance to show off! Please help us make the most of it. Contact Sally, (who is definitely going to the conference) if you can lend a hand. (sharvey@email.unc.edu) Sally ********************************************************************** SIG TO APPEAR SOON IN MLA NEWS! This just in! Our fearless leader informs me that an editor from MLA NEWS contacted him for a submission from our SIG, about our SIG. Look for it in coming editions! Sally ********************************************************************** CHICAGO IS YOUR KINDA TOWN! The Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Health Sciences Librarians Special Interest Group, in co-sponsorship with the Relevant Issues Section, will be presenting "Millennium Management: A Worklife Diversity Skills Workshop" as its featured program at the upcoming and highly anticipated Chicago MLA annual meeting. Well, highly anticipated by this former resident who misses Thai noodles, independent bookstores and Lake Michigan! Our program is scheduled for Monday, May 17th from 4:00-5:30 p.m., room TBA. The moderator will be yours truly, Gerald (Jerry) Perry, Head of Information Services at the Arizona Health Sciences Library, The University of Arizona, and our featured presenter will be Sandra Rios Balderrama, Diversity Officer, Member Programs and Services, at the American Library Association in Chicago. Working from attendants' own experiences, Ms. Balderrama will lead and facilitate a participative workshop where we will identify, clarify and build practical diversity-related skills to be applied in our work environments. Get ready to get involved, share your perspective and contribute to building important interpersonal tools and perspectives to help you as a team member, manager or supervisor in the workplace of the present and future. Over the past year I've gotten to know Sandra as she has provided me with sound, sage advice in my work for the UA Diversity Action Council. She's talented, enthusiastic about diversity and also very, very nice! SIG members may also be interested in other Relevant Issues Section programming. On Tuesday, May 18th at 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 n, RI and Public Health/Health Administration Sections will present, "Youth Violence: the Present is Tense. Issues to Address a Better Future." This panel event will feature moderator Kathel Dunn, New York Academy of Medicine, and the presentations: "Protecting Youth from Gun Violence: Public Health Approaches," "Information into Action: Public Health Information for Youth Violence Prevention," "Youth Violence Prevention Research, Programs, and Resources at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," and "Youth Violence Information: What's out There & How Do I Get It?" Jerry ********************************************************************** HOTEL RESERVATIONS REMINDER The place: Motel 6, on East Ontario Street, 312-787-3580.... The group: Fondly referred to as the "Special Interest Group" The cost: $91.00 nightly, for up to 4 people (way better than the conference hotel) Breakfast update: Coco Pazzo, the Italian restaurant in the hotel is no longer doing continental breakfast. But, there are breakfast places within a block or two away e.g. the Corner Bakery, and the Cambridge, an all-purpose Chicago coffee shop (that's coffee shop with good old fashioned eggs, bagels, non-expresso cafe). I will also advise a walk over the bridge to the Hyatt. Call soon! We want to see all of your smiling faces! Richard (with some editorial license from Sally) ********************************************************************** SIG MISSION STATEMENT The SIG Mission Statement committee worked long and hard to create a statement that we feel encompasses everything the SIG is about. At last May's business meeting in Philadelphia, the membership discussed the proposed statement at length, and sent it back to committee for further revisions. The final product follows and will be formally presented at the business meeting in Chicago. Thank you to Emily Hull, Bill Karnoscak, and Jolene Miller for their hard work! Mission Statement The Mission of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Health Sciences Librarians Special Interest Group is to support the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered health care information needs of our clients and to provide education for our colleagues in MLA, health care workers, and other professionals. This is accomplished though identifying, collecting, and disseminating relevant information through traditional and electronic means, and by providing networking and educational opportunities within and outside our institutions and associations. Robb ********************************************************************** TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR BUSINESS MEETING MLA 1999 Business Meeting - Chicago Date: Sunday 16 May Time: 7:30-9:00 AM Place: TBA Tentative Agenda: 1. Greetings and Introductions 2. Follow-up Discussion SIG Mission Statement 3. Announcement of New Officers 4. Local Arrangements for Vancouver 2000 5. Program Committee for Vancouver 2000 6. Old Business 7. New Business If anyone has anything else they'd like added to the agenda, please contact Jean at jsulliva@smtplink.mssm.edu or Robb at rmackes@egmc.org. In addition, we are also looking for volunteers for the following positions: Co-Chair - Male - 2 Year Term Co-Chair - Female - 2 Year Term Secretary - 2 Year Term 2001 Program Chair 2001 Local Arrangements Chair If anyone has any deep burning desire to volunteer their time for any of these positions, please contact us! We want you! Robb and Jean ********************************************************************** AN ASIDE FROM A SISTER From Kate Clinton, "Don't Get Me Started": "I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining, I carry an umbrella. I used to be in, but I hate the smell of mothballs. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few locks, deadbolts and a burglar alarm that had to be deactivated before I could even touch the door handle. And then there was the storm door. It wasn't until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask "Do you think we're lesbians?" By the way, never come out to your father in a moving vehicle." Submitted by Jean ********************************************************************** MEMBER NEWS From Nancy in Texas, a new position: I've resigned the Manager of Education Services position to accept the Manager of Web Consultation Services position. I'll be developing this service to assist staff, faculty, students who are interested in learning web publishing. Major functions include: teaching classes related to web publishing providing consults on design and scripting providing resources for web publishing supervising/training library staff interested in providing consults From Pat in Michigan, a new position Yes, I have moved from Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library, Barnes Learning Resources Center to head up the Dentistry Library at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor is an amazingly gay-friendly town. When I was scoping out real estate, the Ann Arbor Observor included brief interviews with residents of various neighborhoods, kind of "how we like our town" pieces. One of them was an interview with a lesbian couple! While I was interviewing I couldn't help noticing posters all over campus. Someone had torn down some literature from one of the gay campus organizations, and the University was offering a substantial financial reward for information leading to the perpetrator. Right after I started my job, the woman who was the head of the University Diversity Committee was promoted to the position of Vice President and Secretary of the University, the second most powerful and influential position on campus. I am now an active member of the local LGBT (and allies) organization for UM library students and staff, LILA (Lavendar Information and Library Association), and have been invited to apply for the Library Diversity Committee next time they have openings. Ann Arbor is also a lovely town, nicknamed "Tree City USA." The lot for our house (brick and stucco gambrel farmhouse) has 47 trees, some of which are part of an orchard. Life is good ... From Jolene in Toledo, a marriage ceremony! Jolene Miller and her partner of five years, Donna Steppe, were married at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Toledo, OH, on August 8, 1998. They spent their honeymoon at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. And last, but not least, From Chris in Chicago, a new baby! Anara Gesserit, daugher of Chris Shaffer and Edie Bell, was born on August 7, 1998. She is now a happy, healthy, baby woman. See (http://www.uic.edu/~shaffer/anara/) for pictures. ********************************************************************** Sally Harvey Information Services Coordinator Health Sciences Library The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 919-962-0702 sharvey@email.unc.edu
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