A b o ut
Special Collections
Use Collection of the
Materials are available for research in a supervised reading room open to the public Monday through Friday (see www.lib.fsu. edu/about/hours
for details). Special
Collections staff provide in depth assistance to users on site; limited service is available by mail, email or telephone. For more information about the department and its services, visit our website at: Shaw Collection Covers: The Brown Fairy Book, 1903 and The Blue Fairy Book, 1949, both by Andrew Lang.
http://www.fsu.edu/~speccoll or contact us at (850) 644-3271 or
T
he
University
Libraries
spc@reserves.lib.fsu.edu
Special Collections, housed in Strozier Library, preserves and
provides access to primary source and other research materials to FSU faculty, students, and staff, and to the local and scholarly communities. Currently there are more than a half a million items and 3500 linear feet of manuscripts in its collections. Books and other materials are cataloged in the Libraries’ online catalog
that
can
be
searched
www.lib.fsu.edu
The Special Collection Reading Room
at: FSU Libraries - Special Collections, 2009 Š DESIGN: Department of Communications, Marketing and Publications
Alternative formats available upon request
University Papers Photo Archives
and
Basketball Team, Florida State College for Women, 1905
An important task of Special Collections is to document and preserve the history of the university through its paper and photographic archives. The archives contain print publications, records, memorabilia, and other items chronicling
the
university’s
growth.
The papers of selected faculty and administrators,
ephemera,
catalogs,
yearbooks, scrapbooks, school newspaper, and books published about the university are also part of the collection.
Rare Books This research collection includes books and non-print items that are rare, valuable, or culturally important. In addition to small and private press books, there are limited edition books, early printed books (incunabula), handwritten books, first editions, journals, newspapers, maps, books of color plates, and examples of cuneiforms, papyrus, and ostraka. Among the named collections are the following:
• Napoleon and the French Revolution • John M. Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection
Herbal Collection: Peony, Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal, 1737
Manuscript Collection In addition to general and university related manuscripts, there are four other major categories: Florida political collections; Southern business history; literary manuscripts; and local and regional history. Examples of noteworthy collections include the following:
•
Paul A.M. Dirac Collection
• Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection • West Yellow Pine Lumber Company Records, 1855-1916 • Tallahassee Literary Club Papers
• Kelmscott Press Collection • McGregor Discovery and Exploration of the Americas Collection • Carothers Memorial Rare Bibles
The photographic archives provide a visual history of the university and include images of the campus, students, faculty, clubs, activities, and sports.
Collection
Manuscript Collection: A leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, circa 1465
• Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Executives Records
• Warren Fish Company Records, 1869-1947 • Malcolm Johnson Collection
• Richardson Herbals Collection • Lois Lenski Collection
• Spessard Holland Papers • Allen Morris Papers