LHRT NEWS AND NOTES

“You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.”

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44374205/paul-fasana

And check out Paul Fasana’s wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fasana

Paul Fasana is second from the right in this picture of the LITA Cataloging Institute in 1977 (Image courtesy of Michael Gorman). In reference to the article above, Michael Gorman notes that “Paul may be unknown to many librarians but he was an important figure in the US cataloging community and played a role in the creation of AACR2.”