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The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria is the "largest transgender archive in the world." The collection is located at the University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives (Mearns Centre for Learning), in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and is co-ordinated by Founder and Academic Director Aaron H. Devor and managed by the Director of Special Collections and University Archivist, Lara Wilson. All holdings of The Transgender Archives are accessible to the public, free of charge, for research, investigation, and exploration. ==History== While there are numerous lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, or LGBT, archival collections in North America, only a few exclusively feature transgender material. The genesis of The Transgender Archives occurred in 2005 with a conversation between the founder of the archives, Aaron Devor, and Rikki Swin, a one-time Chicago manufacturer of plastic injection moulding and founder of the Rikki Swin Institute who moved to Victoria in 2007 .〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://transgenderarchives.uvic.ca/rikki-swin-institute-rsi-2 )〕 The discussion led Swin to donate her institute’s entire material holdings to the University of Victoria Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections. Rikki Swin’s founding donation is one of three major donations held in the Archives. The second major donation of material occurred when the daughter of Reed Erickson donated her father’s extensive papers to the Archives. Reed Erickson, founder of the Erickson Educational Foundation, died in 1992. The third major donation occurred when Professor Richard Ekins donated the entire University of Ulster (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) Trans-Gender Archive. Officially opening in 2011, The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria has gathered other smaller donations and has grown to be “exceptional in its focus, size, and scope" due to its unique position as being one of the only archives in the world that institutionally houses material exclusively reflecting the transgender experience. Libraries and the LGBTQ community lists the Transgender Archives in their ''List of LGBTQ Archives/Libraries/Special Collections'' as one of the only archival institutions that exclusively houses transgender material. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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