By Ove Overmyer
Reprinted from The Empty Closet, August 2008
In most professions, it really helps to be passionately in love with
your work. Librarian, archivist and curator Brenda Marston is just one
of those people.
As one of the country’s top curators, Marston has been in charge of
Cornell University’s Human Sexuality Collection (HSC) since 1989. Even
though Cornell is located smack-dab in the middle of New York State,
the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley has been housing their history
and administrative records in Ithaca since 1994. Brenda talks fondly of
the GAGV’s collection, saying that “Rochester’s rich history is
critical to our library. Cornell’s mission is two fold– national and
upstate New York.”
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