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Quatrefoil Library
1619 Dayton Ave, St Paul, MN
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Volunteer Work Party
Saturday, Sep 19
2-4pm
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Please join us for our “work party” at the Library on this Saturday afternoon, open to Quatrefoil members and their friends. This will be a time for all those tasks that need the help of many hands: newsletter mailings, processing new books, sorting recent donations, and mailing out the Quatrefoil history book- as well as meeting other volunteers.

GLBT Book Release Celebration
Sunday, Sep 20
2-3pm
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Join us for a celebration at the Quatrefoil Library to mark the publishing of two new books concerning significant GLBT organizations in the Minneapolis and St. Paul community. The histories are sponsored by the Friends of the Bill of Rights Foundation, and will be available at a number of local and regional libraries, and online via two University of Minnesota websites. The Quatrefoil Library book will also soon be available on the Library’s website. However, hard copies of the books will not be sold.

Please join us for coffee and cookies at the Quatrefoil Library for this historical event.

The books are:

History of Quatrefoil Library (The First 20 Years) by Adam Keim. The book traces the origins of the Cities’ GLBT library, from its inception in the minds of founders David Irwin and Dick Hewetson, to the 1986 founding in the MCLU office building on Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis, and to its current location in near Snelling and Marshall Avenues in St. Paul, with an in depth review of the many people who have helped make the Quatrefoil one of the largest lending GLBT libraries in North America.

History of Minnesota Gay and Lesbian Legal Assistance (MnGALLA) by Dan Hanson and Richard Osborne. During the 1980′s, MnGALLA was an early organized effort to have GLBT people needing legal services referred to supportive and sympathetic attorneys. The organization presented seminars and legal information regarding civil and criminal matters to GLBT people, and was involved with legal education for people with HIV during the early days of the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP). The book details the activities and the people who were active in MnGALLA and its impact on the Twin Cities’ GLBT community.

The two books may soon be found online at University of Minnesota websites, including the Special Libraries and the Tretter Collection sites. The Quatrefoil Library will also soon have an electronic copy of its History on their website.