first place I'd check is Revolting Librarians or RL Redux. - DJF

... good idea. - D0r0th34

Please share if you find good citations? - Rachel Walden

will do! - D0r0th34

email GAY-LIBN (http://www-lib.usc.edu/~trimme...) or check their archives (which i can't see right now...)? - tara

there was an article Hope Olson used in one of her feminism and libraries classes that made the same argument about women's studies. it included an example of a multibranch university library in the US that had a separate branch for women's studies (and some other stuff) then those collections were moved into the main branch once women's studies was seen as no longer being a fringe discipline, or something like that. don't have the citation, nor do i have access to databases where i could find it. though, not even sure that's a useful enough parallel in this case. - tara

Wow. You took classes from Hope Olson. Was she great? - marthalib

actually, Tara, that would work fine. I'm trying to write a short futurist piece in which I make the point that libraries don't just choose on the basis of already-conferred scholarly legitimacy: we ourselves CONFER scholarly legitimacy. - D0r0th34

i heard Hope speak in Vancouver at a feminist conference-thing. she opened my eyes to the power structures around how information is organized and how the subject headings we use to describe people can be pretty fucked up. i took Feminism, Librarianship, and Information as a WISE course with her, which was a bit meh. i prefer f2f learning, and the readings only represented a second wave feminist perspective. - tara

RL and RLRedux didn't turn up anything. Since Hope Olson is just down the road a piece, I have made bold to send her an email. - D0r0th34

You could probably ask Michele Besant, too. Her dissertation was in this area. It's title is: Perceptions of difference : a grounded theory study with white lesbian librarians. She'd know the general background research in LIS in this area. - Katy S

Progressive Librarian might have published something on the topic: http://libr.org/pl/ - laura x

The full text of Besant's dissertation is in Proquest Dissertations Online. - DJF

DJF - Plus, Dorothea knows her and they're on the same campus. Making contact should be easy. :) - Katy S

But for the rest of us who are not so fortunate.... - DJF

True! - Katy S

And, it's a 152 page PDF of blank pages? WTF? - DJF

omfg really? ProQuest strikes again. - D0r0th34

well the UMI copying page is there, and the title page is there, and then it's blank. - DJF