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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Another informative blog post by ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children. Read the full post here:
<a href="http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2014/06/gender/">http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2014/06/gender/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How can libraries better serve transgender youth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Make books available for trans youths and their parents who may or may not be struggling with a child’s transition.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There have been a couple of books for younger readers and their parents. In 2009, a Seattle mother, Cheryl Kilodavis, wrote a picture book called
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">My Princess Boy: A Mom’s Story About a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up.
</span></em>Last fall a Southern California mother, Lori Duron, wrote <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Slightly Effeminate, Possibly Gay, Totally Fabulous Son
</span></em>based on her blog of the same name<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">
</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></em></span><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-style:normal">(</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fran
Fried)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-style:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></em><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Treat the trans books the same way you would any other books–place them in the stacks as you would any nontrans literature and
let people find them… A little subtlety goes a lot further than neon arrows<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.
</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">(</span></em></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fran Fried)<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One simple thing we can do is to add a space on library card applications for “preferred name.” Not enough room on the form for this
extra line? Omit the gender question. (Rebecca Chapin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="110" height="86" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF83BA.1F370950" alt="Fizz Boom Read"><img border="0" width="69" height="90" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CF83BA.1F370950" alt="Girlandcloud"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Summer Reading 2014 at</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://libdir.osl.state.or.us/">Oregon libraries</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Find a</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.summerfoodoregon.org/">summer food site</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.</span>
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