FACT SHEET
May 12, 2023

- ANRL was established September 3, 1979 (over 40 years ago) and is situated on the grounds of Cypress Cove Nudist Resort in Kissimmee, Florida.
- American Nudist Research Library®, Inc. is a Non-Profit organization and is Incorporated as a Florida Non-Profit Corporation.
- The library is staffed completely by volunteers who work both on a regular schedule at the library and from their homes.
- Besides our regular members, we have over 100 life members.
- Members can borrow ‘Circulation’ Books and Videos for 1 week.
- Regular library open hours are Monday through Saturday from 1 to 4 PM when volunteers are available. We may be closed on some days so please call ahead.
- We average around 500 to 700 visitors to the library a year. We encourage visitors to sign our Visitor Log Book.
- We are active in social media with a Twitter account @ANR_Library and a Facebook Group American Nudist Research Library.
- We publish two regular ANRL newsletters a year. These are available at the library, on our web site https://anrl.org and sent to our members and friends.
- We publish V-News which is a Volunteer Newsletter several times a year. This is available on the Website.
- The entire library collection has been donated by individuals, clubs, organizations and anonymously.
- Researchers from many countries have used ANRL: Australia, England, Canada, France, Italy, So. Africa, Scotland, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, Brazil, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and USA.
- Our collection includes approximately 12,000 nudist magazines, 900 books and 800+ videos, 350 Who’s Who folders, ~20,000 photographs, and countless Club Newsletters.
- Our videos cover many topics including clubs promotions, TV interviews, interviews of nudist personalities, slide shows, international travel and a complete collection of performances by the Cypress Cove Players. Most of our videos have been converted into DVD’s.
- We have approximately 960 nudist club files from both today’s clubs and clubs no longer in operation.
- We have thousands of club newsletters, many of which have been scanned. We ask all clubs to add us to their mailing lists. We are currently subscribed to ~45 club newsletters.
- Our Patron Kiosk is available for viewing scanned magazines, Club Newsletters, Who’s Who, and more. Please visit ANRL and browse.
- We have been a member of the American Library Association (ALA) for many years.
- Two 35 mm movies from our collection have been donated to the Library of Congress.
- Our recently modernized web site https://anrl.org is highly ranked in Google Search. We publish lists of our Archived material on our web site but do not publish actual content because of copyright limitations.
- To preserve fragile contents of the Library, we are steadily moving ahead with our document scanning program which includes magazines, books, newsletters and who-s who files.
- We were awarded the Ig Nobel prize for Literature in the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) on May 24, 2004
- ANRL wants to increase its staff of volunteers. We need scanners, professional librarians, someone skilled in copyright issues, and anyone who has technical skills in web design or database programming.
