GENDER EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY

27 November, 2000

For Immediate Release

Contacts:

Dallas Denny, Dallas@gender.org
Jamison Green, Jamison@gender.org
Jessica Xavier, Jessica@gender.org, 301/949-3822, vm box 8

National Transgender Library & Archive Moves to New Home

In January 2000, the Board of Directors of GEA began a national search for a new home for the NTL&A, which had grown too large to house. A call for proposals was distributed via the internet and existing archives were contacted to determine their interest in the collection.

By the deadline data of 15 March, the Board had received 14 excellent proposals from prestigious institutions across the United States. Board members evaluated and ranked each proposal according to pre-determined criteria, and after a lengthy telephone conference in early April in which both objective criteria and subjective feelings were discussed, determined that the NTL&A would be awarded to the Labadie Collection, with any duplicate material going to the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California. The decision was a difficult one, for the proposals were truly outstanding and the Directors had deep feelings about the importance of the NTL&A and how it should be best preserved in perpetuity.

Board Chair Jamison Green contacted those who had submitted proposals to inform them of the Board's decision, and a September date was set for the physical transfer of the collection to Ann Arbor.

The National Transgender Library & Archive, now located in Ann Arbor, Michigan as part of the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library, was born out of the private collection of AEGIS founder and Executive Director Dallas Denny. The NTL&A is a repository for books, magazines, films, videotapes, journals and newspaper articles, unpublished papers, photographs, artwork, letters, personal papers, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the transgender and transsexual condition. The NTL&A is believed to be the largest catalogued collection of transgender-related materials in existence.

Those interested in visiting the NTL&A should contact Julie Herrada, Curator, Labadie Collection, 7th Floor, Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205, 734/764-9377 (voice), 734/764-9368 (FAX), e-mail jherrada@umich.edu.

A comprehensive list of the NTL&A's holdings can be found at GEA's website, http://www.gender.org.

Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation which serves as a clearinghouse for information about transgender issues. GEA maintains the website http://www.gender.org, which is the organization's main tool for information dissemination. GEA is the successor organization of the American Educational Gender Information Service.

- 30 -

Managing Editor:Penni Ashe Matz penn45@ma.ultranet.com
Assistant Editor:Kim Carver kim0320@earthlink.net

When submitting material for posting, please email to gain@tgender.net

When reposting, please credit the Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN).

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from GAIN please visit http://www.tgender.net/mailman/listinfo.
_______________________________________________
GAIN-supplement mailing list
GAIN-supplement@tgender.net
http://www.tgender.net/mailman/listinfo/gain-supplement

Return to P.E.R.S.O.N. Project Home Page