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15 Incredible Library Special Collections

By Queuebot in Book & Lit on Mar 6, 2009 at 11:59 am


Many university and public libraries house special collections, often donated by wealthy patrons or accumulated over decades. This list takes a look at 15 of the most unique special collections from around the world, with such entries as Michigan State’s massive comic art collection.

Michigan State has one of the biggest comic art collections in the world, with more than 150,000 comic books published in the US since 1935 indexed. They don’t stop with comic books however, they also have an exhaustive comic strip collection, including every known book collection of comic strips, as well as over 500,000 hand clipped daily strips filed away in hand made scrapbooks.

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  1. burninglily
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    Wow, fore edged painting looks like something I would truely enjoy trying out. Perhaps with some uncared for books first, in case of mess ups.

  2. Rooney
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    "from around the world" is a bit of a stretch. admitedly one of them is in Austrailia. Is this "the world" in the same way as Americas domestic baseball league is the "world series".

  3. Scooter
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    I work at a Special Collections (UMKC) we have a huge collection of Popular American sheet music. The Marr sound archives (part of the special collections dept) has one of the largest collections of sounds recording.

    http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col-home

  4. Jenny Orzechowski
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    I love Neatorama - I haven't read the article yet but I bet it is awesome!

  5. Ratz
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    I hope they have a copy of Beaver & Steve :)

  6. hellen
    Mar 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    I go to the University of North Texas and the Music Library is huge, as is the Jazz Program. The special collections include a disco collection (gross), big band, Duke Ellington, of course jazz, and oodles of others.

  7. just_arty
    Mar 7th, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Thanks so much for mentioning Special Libraries! To the readers: don't be deterred by the fact that the items are non-circulating-- you're more than welcome to visit and ask if you can look at a specific item! The Special Libraries themselves are often amazing places to visit. Go and support 'em!

    (steps down from soapbox)

  8. Jeff Sovich
    Mar 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    I can't believe they didn't include the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University!?!

    http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/

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