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Albion College Library provides users with access to a wide array of resources, services and spaces. The Library staff is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, staff, faculty and community members. We acknowledge that creating a culture of belonging will be an evolving process and we pledge to continually reassess our efforts. Through the creation of this research guide and others, we hope to maintain and further develop the Library as a welcoming and inclusive space that provides resources and services for all. Below are some of the action plans included in our Blueprint for Belonging that we hope this guide will fulfill.
- Include materials in the Library collections that reflect a variety of perspectives.
- Increase publicity and outreach about Library resources and collections that support diversity.
- Share resources that support diversity and inclusion through the creation of subject and research guides.
Streaming Video Database Collections
Archives and Collections
- The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
- Online archive of Anything That Moves, the 1990s-2000s bisexual magazine, for accessibility to the bisexual community and general public.
- The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among dozens of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
Gerber/Hart LGBTQ+ Library and Archives
- Gerber/Hart Library and Archives seeks to collect, preserve, and make accessible the history and culture of LGBTQ+ communities in Chicago and the Midwest in order to advance the larger goal of achieving justice and equality.
- A growing resource of mostly Houston based LGBT history.
- The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities.
- LGBTQ digital oral history is an emerging field built by dedicated activists, historians, and
archivists across the web. This hub acts as a growing resource for oral histories practitioners and the public.
- Making Gay History is a nonprofit organization that addresses the absence of substantive,
in-depth LGBTQ+-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom.
- A series of articles and podcast episodes that work to tell the stories of the queer community's history.
Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
- The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest in DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
Stonewall Museum Digital Archive
- One of the largest LGBTQ+ archives and libraries in the United States, containing a digitized selection comprising over 6 million pages of materials documenting LGBTQ+ political, cultural and social history.
- Complete collection of Vice Versa, early queer magazine by Edythe Eyde.
Open Access Books and Streaming
Streaming Video:
-
And The Band Played On
- How To Survive A Plague
- Paris Is Burning
- Screaming Queens
- Stonewall Forever
- Stonewall Uprising
- United In Anger
Books:
Poetry:
Research Guides
HIV and AIDS - LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide
- Library of Congress Research Guide
Acknowledgement
Special thank you to Trinity Castle-Pollard for working to curate these resources.