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Volume 6, Issue 1
1 February 1984
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Collection Building
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Review Article| February 01 1984

What Librarians Should Know About Gay and Lesbian Publishing

Sasha Alyson
Sasha Alyson
Founded Alyson Publications, Inc. (Box 2783, Boston, MA 02208) in 1977
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5592
Print ISSN: 0160-4953
© MCB UP Limited
1984
Collection Building (1984) 6 (1): 22–23.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023138

Categories—it would be impossible to run a library without them. Categories break down huge quantities of books into manageable stacks on this subject and that. Books with a gay or lesbian theme are just one more category. So why, you may ask having read the title of this article, should they get special treatment?

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