Whoops, replied to person when i should have replied to list...
Loz Pycock wrote:
> Jo Harvey wrote:
>> I would be interested in hearing if your authority has a seperate
>> section of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books, or if they
>> are integrated into the main fiction and non-fiction sequences.
>>
>> If they are integrated, are they identified ias being LGBT in any
>> way?
>
> We go both ways, as it were, in that we have two specific collections
> of Lesbian and Gay stock in the two biggest libraries in our area, at
> one library they are integrated in the stock, in the other they are
> seperate. All the stock has spine labels identifying them, it's just
> that one of the libraries is newer so has space for the genre stuff
> to be seperate. Actually buying this as a specific seperate stock is
> a fairly new thing for us, which we've only really started in the
> last year.
>>
>> It would also be useful in your response if you could state if you
>> have a significant LGBT community in your area, to see if this
>> affects the placing of the stock.
>
> The stock is going out but I'm not aware of any groups in the
> immediate area, when having a look the only group I could find is a
> few miles up the road. It wasn't an exhaustive search though. We are
> half an hour from the centre of London by tube, so that might affect
> the number of groups in our borough.
>
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Loz
"Coping with emergencies the British way: The nearest branch of Pret has
sold out of chocolate cake." - Anon on the internet after the British
terror attacks, 07th June 05
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