Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame
The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame is both a historic event and an exhibit. Through the Hall of Fame, residents of Chicago and the world are made aware of the contributions of Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and the communities' efforts to eradicate homophobic bias and discrimination.
http://www.glhalloffame.org/

Chicago Gay History Project
An overview of people, events, and organizations that helped the Windy City become a beacon of gay progress. This Web site was conceived by Tracy Baim and is a companion to the book Out and Proud in Chicago (2008).
http://www.chicagogayhistory.org/

Chicago's GLBT History Resources
This bibliography is a great starting point for research on Chicago’s GLBT history.
http://www.chicagogayhistory.org/resources.html

Gay Press Archives
Both full text archives and PDF files of Chicago’s GLBT newspapers, current and past, are maintained here. With a little effort, you can track down John D’Emilio’s articles on Chicago GLBT history.
http://www.chicagogayhistory.org/archives.html

CWLU Herstory Project
The online archive of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, a group of Windy City women determined to challenge male supremacy through many organizing projects from 1969-1977.
http://cwluherstory.org/

Blazing Star
Among the CWLU projects was a movement for lesbian liberation, often known as Blazing Star, after the title of its newsletter.
http://www.cwluherstory.org/blazing-star.html

Gerber/Hart Library
As a library, Gerber/Hart Library is committed to acquiring, preserving, and disseminating materials that embody the culture and history of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people. As archives, Gerber/Hart Library is the repository for the records, papers, and other realia of GLBT life, focusing primarily in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Midwest.
http://www.gerberhart.org

Leather Archives & Museum
The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices - and includes all sexual orientations and genders. While the geographic collection scope is worldwide, significant Chicago resources are held.
http://www.leatherarchives.org

Kris Studios of Chicago
Kris Studios, founded in 1950, was a Chicago physique pictorial photography business. Studio founder Chuck Renslow successfully defended himself against a pornography charge brought by the Postal Service, making it easier for GLBT magazines, newspapers, photosets, and films to be sent through the mail.
http://www.leatherarchives.org/kris/krisindex.htm

Online Video and Film
Films from Kris Studios and videos of Chicago leather events make up about a third of the clips available.
http://www.leatherarchives.org/collections/video-fi.htm

Queer Bronzeville : The History of African American Gays and Lesbians on Chicago’s South Side
Learn about the development (1885-1985) of queer communities in Bronzeville, an African-American neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. This exhibit was created by 2008 OutHistory.org Fellowship winner Tristan Cabello.
http://outhistory.org/wiki/Queer_Bronzeville_:_An_Overview

If you are in town for ALA on Thursday, July 9, you can catch Max Smith discussing his forthcoming book African America's Third Rail: SGL (Same Gender Loving) . He'll be speaking at 7 pm at the Gerber-Hart Library, 1127 West Granville, just west of the Granville stop on the Red Line.

John Bradford

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In a world where funding is decreasing and demand is increasing, libraries and librarians are looking for ways to provide access to content without submitting their bottom line to costly and sometimes little-used online journal subscriptions.

The ALCTS CCS Electronic Resources Interest Group invites you to attend its panel discussion "Pay-Per-View Options: Is Transactional Access Right For My Institution?" on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Chicago Hilton, Continental Ballroom B.

The discussion will center on the experiences of libraries and publishers as they implement and manage transactional access models at their institutions. The panelists will discuss why transactional access was right for their institution, the driving forces behind their decisions, the implementation process, technical implementation and management of the access, and the outcomes of their endeavors. Following the presentations will be a "question and answer" period, as well as an open forum for audience members to share their experience(s) with fellow session participants.

The panel includes:

Pay Per View – Where We Were, Where We Are and Where Are We Going Next?

Beth R. Bernhardt
Jackson Library
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Between 2002 and 2003, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) set up several different types of pay-per-view options that provided users with over 3,500 unsubscribed titles. A few years later the library set up access to many of these titles through Consortium Big Deals. This presentation will talk about what options the library experimented with, what is still there, compare its pay-per-view statistics with its big deals and discuss how libraries might use pay-per-view options in the coming years.

Developing a Pay-Per-View Model in a Financially Challenging Budget Year

Nicole Mitchell and Elizabeth Lorbeer
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Anticipated reductions at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, for fiscal year 2009/2010 will result in a content budget of roughly half what it was four years ago. The library went from having packages with almost every commercial and society publisher to just a few packages in 2009. Over 4,500 titles were cancelled for 2009, with only 52 journals being reinstated by user request. In exploring a solution for next fiscal year, the library began to investigate investing twenty percent of its journal budget to subsidized pay-per-view by setting up deposit accounts with the publishers, with a goal to significantly lower user fees for article access.

Fast Food Nation/Google Generation/Financial Down Turn…Meet the Library

Ryan Weir and Ashley Ireland
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

Murray State University has recently undertaken a project that will be the inaugural step in its transition to both providing optimized digital access and change of the landscape of its journal acquisitions from a model that has been traditionally print to one that is primarily electronic. Alongside this transition, the library also added a just-in-time element to its previous just-in-case-only model. During this presentation, participants will have a window into Murray State's experience, including: the driving forces behind its decisions, its selection of Science Direct as a vendor, the implementation process, the outcomes, and where the library sees itself headed in the future.

Transactional Access: A Publisher's Take

Mark Rothenbuhler
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The final presentation will offer the perspective of a major publisher about its experience offering streamlined article access via prepaid tokens. Mark Rothenbuhler from Wiley will discuss the realities and potential benefits of transactional access to journal articles to libraries and publishers, and offer suggestions as to what libraries should be thinking about.