Ken Wilson is mostly blind but reads via text-to-speech software. He saves copies of the copyright-free books he reads in MP3 format. He offers to make text-to-speech recordings of Gutenberg titles on CD available to anyone who is blind or partially sighted as an MP3 or a wav file, for low or no cost [with donations gratefully accepted].
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archive list
Here is a list of online libraries and archives dealing with HIV/AIDS information.
step in the right direction
The Rural AIDS Action Network in Minnesota is launching a Libraries Fight HIV/AIDS campaign in partnership with the MLA today.
exhibits at libraries today
Many libraries are hosting exhibits or events for World AIDS Day including: The National Library of Trinidad & Tobago, the Salt Lake City public library, the Maine College of Art library, the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro Vermont, Novato Public Library in Marin County and the Ames Public Library in Iowa.
gay library history
And, as some worthwhile related reading if you’re not too up on the gay library subculture: “They Sure Got to Prove It on Me”: Millennial
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Without putting too fine a point on recent findings that suggest
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]