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Libraries are at the heart of many of the communities they serve. Increasingly, it is important for them to adjust to serve minority groups, including LGBTQ+ communities. This collection presents original scholarship on the emerging directions of advocacy and community engagement in LGBTQ+ librarianship.With contributions from library and information professionals, this volume explores how librarians and library professionals can embrace a more proactive role as social justice advocates, and help promote fairness, justice, equality, equity, and activism on behalf of LGBTQ+ people. Starting within the library space, the volume offers an introduction to terminology and resources around LGBTQ+ information, before moving on to explore examples of how LGBTQ+ librarianship can adopt innovative approaches to better serve their patrons in select settings around the world. Including case studies on health services, historical archives, and LGBTQ+ homelessness, this collection dispels misperceptions and myths surrounding social justice research and is vital for any researcher or practitioner interested in supporting evolving communities.

Library management --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Libraries and sexual minorities. --- Libraries and gays. --- Libraries and lesbians. --- Human rights advocacy. --- Librarians --- Gays and libraries --- Libraries --- Library services to gays --- Public libraries --- Gays --- Professional ethics. --- Services to gays --- Librarians, Professional ethics for --- Library ethics --- Library science --- Advocacy, Human rights --- Social advocacy --- National human rights institutions --- Lesbians and libraries --- Library services to lesbians --- Lesbians --- Library services to sexual minorities --- Sexual minorities and libraries --- Sexual minorities --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Services to lesbians --- Services to sexual minorities --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Library & information sciences. --- Library & Information Science --- Administration & Management. --- Libraries and gay people.