{"id":112,"date":"2012-08-10T01:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-08-11T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T19:26:55","slug":"a-queer-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"A Queer Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SHARPENERS_QueerArchive.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-113\" title=\"SHARPENERS_QueerArchive\" src=\"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SHARPENERS_QueerArchive-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SHARPENERS_QueerArchive-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SHARPENERS_QueerArchive-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a>During the Canadian Library Association National Conference and Tradeshow in Ottawa this past June, I met Chatham-Kent Public Library Board member, Mark Reinhart, who was on a panel discussing how to reach LGBTQ audiences in libraries.<\/p>\n<p>An artist as well as a library board member, Mark was on the panel along with Chatham-Kent Public Library&#8217;s public services coordinator Tania Sharpe to discuss their project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatham-kent.ca\/ThamesArtGallery\/ExhibitionArchive\/Pages\/AQueerArchive.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">A Queer Archive<\/a>, an archive of LGBTQ material that is as much an art installation as it is a mobile library.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and I have kept in touch post-conference and he will be bringing the archive to Toronto on October 21st for the zine fair I organize, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokenpencil.com\/canzine-toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Canzine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the archive in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokenpencil.com\/sharpener-2\/bringing-queer-history-out-of-the-basement\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> Alison Lang wrote for the newest issue of<em> Broken Pencil<\/em>, which just hit newsstands this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Canadian Library Association National Conference and Tradeshow in Ottawa this past June, I met Chatham-Kent Public Library Board member, Mark Reinhart, who was on a panel discussing how to reach LGBTQ audiences in libraries. An artist as well as a library board member, Mark was on the panel along with Chatham-Kent Public Library&#8217;s public services coordinator Tania Sharpe to discuss their project A Queer Archive, an archive of LGBTQ material that is as much an art installation as it is a mobile library. Mark and I have kept in touch post-conference and he will be bringing the archive to Toronto on October 21st for the zine fair I organize, Canzine. You can read more about the archive in an article Alison Lang wrote for the newest issue of Broken Pencil, which just hit newsstands this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsaylibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}