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Announces that the National Transgender Library and Archive (NTL&A) has become part of the University of Michigan library in Ann Arbor. Contents; How it was acquired; Comments of Julie Herrada, curator of Michigan's Labadie Collection.

Reports that the Eastern Michigan University Library in Ypsilanti was presented with the writings of author Loren Estleman, a 1974 graduate of the university. Description of Estleman's detective novels and Westerns; Literary awards won.

Profiles Julie Herrada, curator of the University of Michigan's Labadie Collection, the largest collection of anarchist and social protest literature in the United States. Size of the collection; Inclusion of papers by convicted bomber Ted Kaczynski in the collection; Importance of radical and unpopular views, according to Herrada; Biographical information.

Presents a number of news briefs concerning libraries. Report that the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Ohio has broken its previous year's record for circulation; Induction of librarian Mary Lemist Titcomb into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame; Naming of the Kalamazoo Public Library as a district library in Michigan; Presentation of the 1990 Jesse H. Shera award for the best research paper in library/information science to Charles R. McClure, Ann Bishop, and Philip Doty; Announcement of reference publisher Facts on File that it will begin a Spanish-language book publishing program in the fall of 1990.