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Resources in the Connexions Library

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Organization

  1. Aletta Institute for Women's History
    The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of the International Archives for the Women's Movement.
  2. American Native Press Archives
    Along with the American Native Press Archives, the Center documents contemporary Native American communities by creating, maintaining, and providing to the public the most comprehensive collection possible of Native newspapers, periodicals, and other publications; maintaining Native manuscripts and special collections; and acquiring other materials related to Native communities, press history, and literature. The Center serves tribal communities and the general public by developing and maintaining the means of accessing the content of these collections and by providing educational resources through various media and public programming.
  3. Anglican Church of Canada Archives
  4. Archives of Ontario
    The official archives of the Province of Ontario.
  5. City of Toronto Archives
    The official archives of the City of Toronto.
  6. Fisher Rare Books Library at the University of Toronto
    Several collections related to radical history, including: French Revolution collection (books, pamphlets and periodicals on the French Revolution); Spanish Civil War Collection (formed with the assistance of the Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain, contains books, pamphlets, posters and some manuscript material, as well as historical works on Spain during the 1930s); Czechoslovakia 1968 (manuscripts and printed matter on the 1968 uprising); Solidarnosc (publications by members of the Solidarity and other workers’ movements in Poland); the Robert S. Kenney Collection (documents related Communism and other radical movements).
  7. The Freedom Archives
    The Freedom Archives contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tapes as well as extensive documents. These materials date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
  8. Guide Communications II
    Publish a number of networking/communications resources, including The Networkers Package, "a comprehensive yet concise overview of communications resources, networking, and wholistic perspectives
  9. Leather Archives & Museum
    The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and includes all sexual orientations and genders. The library collection contains published books, magazines, scholarly publications, films and electronic resources related to the subject matter. The museum collection contains original erotic art and artifacts from alternative sex organizations and individuals. The archival collection contains unpublished papers and records from notable activists, artists, businesses and organizations related to the subject matter.
  10. Library and Archives Canada / Canadian Acquisitions Division and Legal Deposit Office
    All Canadian periodicals are required to file two copies of each issues with the National Library.
  11. Marx Memorial Library
    The Library is home to a number and variety of archives and collections including the full run of the Daily Worker and Morning Star, The International Brigade Archive, Bernal Peace Library, Klugnmann Collection and an extensive Photograph Library.
  12. May Day Rooms
    MDR states that its growing collections, based in London, "challenge the widespread assault on collective memory and historical continuity by countering those prevalent narratives of historical inevitability and political pessimism."
  13. Memorial Society
    Documents relevant to oppression and dissent in Russia.
  14. National Video Clearinghouse
    Publish Video Source Book, listing 400 producers and distributors of 15,000 videotapes.
  15. Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
    Our aim is to locate, document, digitise, and provide access to all archival materials related to Nelson Mandela. This is a work in progress.
  16. ONE Lesbian & Gay Archives
    The largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. (U.S.)
  17. People's Archive of Rural India
    Recording the everyday lives of everyday people.
  18. Prometheus Research Library
    A working library of American and international Marxist history, documentation, and related interests, maintained by the Trotskyist League.
  19. Small World
    Mail order network(s) run as small business(es) providing networking facilities for neighbours and associates. All Small World owners will participate in managing a non-profit corporation which will facilitate communication between them.
  20. United Church of Canada Archives
  21. World Council of Churches Library & Archives
  22. Writers' Union of Canada
    Established in 1973 to support and advocate on behalf of Canada#s book published authors. The Union has more than 1,700 members.
  23. Zochrot
    Zochrot ('Remembering') seeks to raise public awareness of the Palestinian Nakba, especially among Jews in Israel, who bear a special responsibility to remember and amend the legacy of 1948.