Libraries
From Queer to Gay and Back Again: GLBTQ Literature for Teens
The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Sexuality Series continues on November 17, 2008, with a lecture by Dr. Christine Jenkins entitled "From Queer to Gay and Back Again: GLBTQ Literature for Teens" in the Malpass Library, room 180, at 2 pm. Dr. Jenkins is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the director of the Center for Children's Books at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a former school librarian and a scholar of the literature and reading habits of children and young adults with a special focus on attempts to censor books for young readers.
The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Sexuality Series is sponsored by ´ºÓêÖ±²¥â€™s University Committee on Sexual Orientation and University Libraries. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information about the lecture and the series of which it is a part please contact Dr. William Thompson, associate professor in the University Libraries, at 309-298-2785 ext. 7 or WA-Thompson@wiu.edu.