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IHLIA LGBTI Heritage

Archive in the Netherlands

IHLIA LGBTI Heritage
IHLIA's reading room on the 3rd floor of the Public Library at Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Location	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Established	1999
Collection
Size	over 100,000 titles, including books, journals, films, posters, objects and archives from individuals and organisations
Other information
Director	Lonneke van den Hoonaard
Website	ihlia.nl

IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, formerly known as the International Gay/Lesbian Information Center and Archive (Dutch: Internationaal Homo/Lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief; IHLIA), is an international archive and documentation center on homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender.^[1]^[2]

It collects, preserves and presents to the public all kinds of information in the field of LGBTI. IHLIA curates the largest LGBTI collection of Europe with over 100,000 titles on 1515 meters of shelf length – books, journals and magazines, films, documentaries, posters, photographs and objects such as T-shirts, buttons and condom packaging.

History

IHLIA was founded in 1999 by merging the Homodok (documentation on homosexuality of the University of Amsterdam), the Lesbian Archives of Leeuwarden hosted at the Anna Blamanhuis, and Lesbisch Archief Amsterdam (LAA). Since 2007, IHLIA is located in the Public Library Amsterdam. IHLIA and the George Mosse Fund organize the annual Mosse Lectures.^[3] Over 95% of their annual budget, about 800.000 euros, comes from the country's government.

IHLIA has part-time staff, and volunteers that help in their work. They provide access on request, for instance to students in Genderstudies at the University of Amsterdam.

The archives are kept in the basement of the Public Library
Special pink bookcase on the 3rd floor of the library
Der Eigene. Ein Blatt für Alle und Keinen (Your own. A magazine for everyone and no one), 1896 Berlin-Wilhelmshagen. First homosexual magazine. Full text. Collection IHLIA LGBTI Heritage.

References

^ Van der Wel, Jack: IHLIA – Making information on LGBTIQ issues in the past and the present accessible and visible, p 158 – 161 in: Ellen Greenblatt (ed.): Serving LGBTIQ library and archives users. Essays on outreach, service, collections and access, Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2011]. Googlebooks
^ Van Staalduinen, Ko & Brandhorst, Henny: A queer thesaurus: an international thesaurus of gay and lesbian index terms, Anna Blaman Huis and Homodok, Amsterdam 1997.
^ "Tussen Grewel en Fortuyn: Identiteit, herzuiling, privilege en verschil" [Between Grewel and Fortuyn: Identity, re-pillarification, privilege and difference] (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2019.