Gerber/Hart Library and Archives

The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (or "The Henry Gerber–Pearl M. Hart Library: The Midwest Lesbian & Gay Resource Center"), founded in 1981, is the largest circulating library of gay and lesbian titles in the Midwestern United States.^[1] Located in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, it houses over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 items in the archival collection. The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives were inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1996.^[2]

Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Gerber/Hart Library stacks
41.999970°N 87.671641°W / 41.999970; -87.671641
Location	Rogers Park, Chicago, United States, United States
Scope	LGBTQ materials
Established	1981; 44 years ago (1981)
Other information
Director	Erin Bell
Website	www.gerberhart.org

Although a private non-profit, the library has received public funding for its continuing operation from Illinois' "Fund for the Future," including a $25,000 grant in 1999.^[3]

Location

Gerber/Hart was originally located in the offices of Gay Horizons (now known as the Center on Halsted^[4]).^[5] In 2012, the library moved into its current location in Rogers Park, a neighborhood in northern Chicago, IL.^[6][7] It is housed in the Howard Brown Health building on Clark Street,^[8] where the organization rents several rooms on the second floor.

Alongside a reading room and free circulating library, Gerber/Hart also has a physical exhibition space, which rotates throughout the year.^[9]