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Library and Information Science Professionals as Community Action Researchers in an Academic Setting: Top Ten Directions to Further Institutional Change for People of Diverse Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities

机译：图书馆和信息科学专业人员作为社区行动研究人员在学术环境中：为不同性倾向和性别认同的人进一步制度变革的十大方向

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The need for progressive change in people???s attitudes and behaviorsis essential for a communitywide acceptance of lesbians, gays,bisexuals, transgenders, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals.This article examines our role as library and information science(LIS) professionals working in an academic environment to promoteequality of sexual minorities by taking community action andcreating social awareness and acceptance on their behalf. Findingsbased on qualitative studies and action research conducted in theUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) help identify typicalbarriers and challenges faced by local LGBTQ individuals towardself-fulfillment and social and political empowerment. Researchparticipants share their marginalizing experiences that paint apicture of slow acceptance reflected in the lukewarm campus andcommunity climate of support toward LGBTQ individuals. It formsthe contextual motivation for the authors as openly gay LIS professionalsto promote ???top ten??? prioritized community actions of???what do we need to do??? and ???how do we do it??? on behalf of peopleof diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Current directionsof progress made in the UTK academic environment over aperiod of two years are shared in this paper. Future efforts are alsoidentified that require extending traditional library functions of informationprovision to reflect contemporary nontraditional expectationsof relevance that include proactive social justice efforts forlibraries and LIS professionals to come out of the closet in supportof people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
机译：需要逐步改变人们的态度和行为方式，这对于在社区范围内接受女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋者，跨性别者和提问者（LGBTQ）至关重要。本文探讨了我们作为图书馆和信息科学（LIS）专业人士的作用在学术环境中通过采取社区行动并代表他们建立社会意识和接受来促进性少数群体的平等。在田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学（UTK）进行的定性研究和行动研究的基础上的发现，有助于确定当地LGBTQ个人在实现自我，社会和政治权力方面面临的典型障碍和挑战。研究参与者分享了他们的边缘化经历，这些经历描绘了缓慢接受校园的景象，反映在不冷不热的校园和对LGBTQ个人的支持氛围中。它为作者作为公开的同性恋LIS专业人士形成促进“十大”的语境动机。我们需要做什么的优先社区行动？和？我们怎么做？代表具有不同性取向和性别认同的人。本文分享了两年来在UTK学术环境中取得的最新进展方向。还确定了未来的工作，需要扩展传统的信息提供图书馆功能，以反映当代的非传统意义上的相关期望，包括积极的社会正义努力让图书馆和LIS专业人员走出壁橱，以支持各种性取向和性别认同的人们。

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    Mehra Bharat; Braquet Donna;

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