welcome to the children's literature research collections
Grimm's Fairy Tales - "Ashenputtel" |
The CLRC, an internationally recognized resource in the field of children’s literature, contain six core collections and several smaller collections. They are the Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature, the Hess Collection of Dime Novels, Story Papers, and Series Books, the Paul Bunyan Collection, the Laura Jane Musser Collection of Oziana materials, and the Illustrated Treasure Island Collection. The CLRC is continually expanding its holdings in historical and other areas. All the material is accessible to anyone, who needs to consult it, but use by readers is confined to the reading room, where attendants bring requested material. A card catalogue as well as an on-line catalogue of holdings is kept in the reading room (not all of our material is on the on-line catalogue). To search for material, using the on-line catalogue, you must use the University of Minnesota's MNCAT and pay close attention to the location of the material, as MNCAT is a catalogue for the all of the University's libraries. Our location is "Andersen Children's Lit". The collections are available for the use in the Andersen Library under certain restrictions. Inquires may be made to the Children's Literature Research Collections. HoursThe Department of Archives and Special Collections will be providing limited service the first week of January 2012. January 3-6 ASC will not be registering new researchers or pulling any materials for research use. Researchers who have registered with us by December 1 and have materials already available in the reading room will be accommodated. The reading room will be open 8:30-4:30 M-F beginning Monday, January 9. Wednesday and Thursday evening hours resume January 18. Elmer L. Andersen Library and the CLRC will be CLOSED on the following dates. We will not be answering phone or email reference questions while the building is closed: December 23, 26 & 27 and January 2 & 3. Thank you very much for your cooperation and enjoy the winter season. |
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collection digital resources |
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Kerlan Collection Finding Aids - An inventory of all authors and illustrators original material held in the Kerlan Collection. Newsletters - View current & past newsletters Charles Mikolaycak - Illustration in an Art Historical and Decorative Arts Context. Written by Edward Leffingwell Portfolios - A popular method of bringing the Kerlan Collection to groups outside the University, The Children's Literature Research Collections have a number of educational portfolios available for check-out or download. All available portfolios are listed on this page, with a brief description of their contents. Checklists - The Kerlan Collection holds two volumes of checklists containing all of the original materials held in the Kerlan Collection. Volume 1 lists everything that was in the Collection before 1985. Whereas, Volume 2 lists everything that has been added to the Collection after 1985 - 2003.
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