The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library, was born out of the private collection of AEGIS founder and Executive Director Dallas Denny. AEGIS, a nonprofit clearinghouse for information about transgender and transsexual issues, is now a part of Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA), a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. The NTL&A is a repository for books, magazines, films, videotapes, journals and newspaper articles, unpublished papers, photographs, artwork, letters, personal papers, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the transgender and transsexual condition.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.

Due to the large quantity and varied nature of the materials, several different procedures and campus library resources must be utilized in order to make them accessible for research. The Labadie Collection, a special collection of social protest materials covering a wide variety of subject matter, including sexual freedom, houses approximately 400 of the NTL&A serial titles (journals, magazine, newsletters, periodicals, newspapers, etc.). Bibliographic records and descriptions of holdings for these items may be found by searching Mirlyn.

Please note that the NTL&A serials are kept in remote storage, and so they will not be available immediately to visitors to our facilities. A request to retrieve these items from storage may be made by regular mail, by telephone (734-764-9377) or by email (special.collections@umich.edu).