The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired the archives of visual artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer. The archives consist of notebooks, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs spanning several decades. They will be open for research in 2018 following archival processing. A pioneer of queer cinema, Hammer has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. "Barbara Hammer is an extraordinary innovator and influencer in contemporary culture," says Timothy Young, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library. "For more than four decades, she has been at the forefront of conversations about sexuality, gender roles, and the body, making art of interest to scholars and students." Hammer says, "I am delighted that my archives will live alongside and be in conversation with those of artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, among others who experimented in their work, while making important contributions to the social and sexual landscape." The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is one of the world's largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the Beinecke Library has room in the central tower for 180,000 volumes and in the underground book stacks for more than a million volumes.