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Special Collections in Children's Literature : title: An International Directory author: Jones, Dolores Blythe. ALA Editions of the American Library publisher: Association isbn10 | asin: 0838934544 print isbn13: 9780838934548 ebook isbn13: 9780585365046 language: English Children's literature--Library resources-- subject Directories, Library resources--United States--Directories. publication date: 1995 lcc: Z688.C47S63 1995eb ddc: 026.8088/99282 Children's literature--Library resources-- subject: Directories, Library resources--United States--Directories. Page i Special Collections in Children's Literatures An International Directory THIRD EDITION compiled and edited by Dolores Blythe Jones with the assistance of the National Planning for Special Collections Committee Association for Library Service to Children Page ii Cover illustration from Mother Goose in Silbouettes, cut by Katharine G. Buffum; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1907. Cover by Tessinag Design Text design by Dianne M. Rooney Composed by Alexander in Sabon and printed on 50-pound Badger Offset, a p-H neutral stock, and bound in 10-point C1S cover stock by Trade Service Publications This paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Special collections in children's literature : an international directory / Association for Library Service to Children ; compiled and edited by Dolores Blythe Jones ; with the assistance of the National Planning for Special Collections Committee. 3rd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8389-3454-4 1. Children's literatureLibrary resourcesDirectories. 2. Library resourcesUnited StatesDirectories. I. Jones, Dolores Blythe. II. Association for Library Service to Children. Committee on National Planning for Special Collections. Z688.C47S63 1995 95-10998 026.8088'99282dc20 Copyright © 1995 by the American Library Association. All rights reserved except those which may be granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. Printed in the United States of America. 99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1 Page iii Dedicated to the special collections librarians whose hard work has made this book possible Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross and a Farmer Went Trotting upon His Grey Mare by Randolph Caidecott; London: Routledge [1884]. Page v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Institution Abbreviation List xv Directory of United States Collections 1 Subject Listing 99 Directory of International Collections 191 Index 221 Page vii Foreword In 1964 the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association, recognizing the need for coordinating and planning for special collections in the area of literature for children, appointed a Committee on the National Planning for Special Collections of Children's Books. The function of the committee was to identify current collections in the United States and Canada. Questionnaires were sent out to libraries and individuals. Publicity on the project was sent to the various publications in the library and book world. The response was overwhelming and the committee decided to accept R. R. Bowker's offer to publish the results. For two years, Virginia Haviland, Elizabeth Nesbitt, and I met regularly and, with the input of other members of the committee, prepared a manuscript for publication. The title of the first edition was Subject Collections in Children's Literature and included private as well as institutional collections. One hundred and fifty-three collections were included in the 1969 edition. Due to the interest of researchers, scholars, and librarians, the American Library Association decided to publish a second edition in 1982. With the assistance of Margaret N. Coughlan and Sharyl G. Smith, as well as input from members of the committee, several changes were made. The title became Special Collections in Children's Literature to allow for collections in any format print, illustration, audiovisual materials, foreign translations, etc. Excluded were general browsing collections, private collections, parent-teacher collections, and those in instructional materials centers. Two hundred sixty-eight institutions were included in the second edition. More than a decade later we have a third edition that includes 300 collections in the United States and 119 collections in forty countries. Such an increase in the number of collections of children's books and related ma- Page viii terials shows the value and importance of this specific area of the literary world to the bibliophile, historian, and researcher. Anyone interested in collecting children's books will want to read Carolyn Clugston Michaels's Children's Book Collecting (Library Professional Publications, 1993). In it she covers all aspects of collecting as well as offering a delightful and informative history of children's literature. She lists great collections, private and public; includes a directory of resources; and has a valuable glossary. Individuals who really care about children's books are usually welcome to see the treasures in a special collection. Researchers and scholars are always welcome to use the materials, but there are a few rules to be followed. A request to the librarian or curator should include a statement of credentials, the nature of the project, previous steps taken and collections investigated, date and approximate time of visit, and how to be reached if time and date are not convenient. Most historians will agree that children's books are the best source for information on the morals and mores of a period of time or of a country. Even in this technological age of computers and computer games, the printed book is important. The circulation of children's books in public libraries is booming. The appropriate book as a gift to a child is still welcomed. I usually give a book as a gift to a child at Christmas and the response is the same: "This is my best Christmas gift ever!" As Peggy Sullivan said in the second edition in her article, "Collections and Collectors of Children's Books," "it is probably the book we loved the most as children that has been lost, energetically loved to death or left outside in the rain." So it behooves us as librarians to be careful in discarding books and to encourage and publicize the wonderful collections of children's books. CAROLYN W. FIELD COORDINATOR EMERITUS
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