Gay, lesbian and bisexual titles: their treatment in the review media and their selection by libraries

Abstract

Reports on a comparison of the 1992 Lambda Book Award titles and a sample of titles reviewed in the Lambda Book Report with a control group of titles listed in Publishers Weekly, “Forecasts”. Finds that while the Lambda Award titles received about the same number of reviews as the control group titles, the LBR sample received significantly fewer reviews. However, both samples of gay/lesbian/ bisexual books are held in significantly fewer OCLC libraries than are the control titles. Examines the content of reviews of sample books and finds that they show no apparent bias on the part of the reviewers.

Citation

Sweetland, J.H. and Christensen, P.G. (1995), "Gay, lesbian and bisexual titles: their treatment in the review media and their selection by libraries", Collection Building, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023399