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Santa Barbara Mission-Archive Library; Schlesinger Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library; The Selected Papers of John Jay; Smith College Archives; Sophia Smith Collection; The Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World; Sutro Library
In library science, special collections (Spec. Coll. or S.C.) are libraries or library units that house materials requiring specialized security and user services.Special collections can be found in many different organisations including research libraries, universities, colleges, schools, national libraries, public libraries, museums, art galleries, archives, historic houses, cathedrals ...
National Library of Iran Iran: Tehran: 15.0 million [43] Hong Kong Public Library Hong Kong: Hong Kong: 11.36 million [44] HK$776.2 million [45] National Library of Poland Poland: Warsaw: 10.4 milion [46] Toronto Public Library Canada: Toronto, Ontario 10.2 million $252 million (CAD) 1825
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1957 with 1,000 books and 50 manuscript collections, as of 2016 the Library's special collections contained over 300,000 books, 11,000 manuscript collections, and over 2.5 million ...
The first addition was added in 1952, with two more in 1976 and 1984. It served as the university's main library until 1984, when Davis Library opened. [9] Today, Wilson Library mainly serves as a special collection library. [10] Its North Carolina Collection is the largest about a single state in the United States. [11]
The collections of the Library of Congress include more than 32 million catalogued books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 61 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection [74] in North America, including the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, a Gutenberg Bible (originating from the Saint Blaise Abbey ...
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies staff with the Outfront Minnesota Collection. Cultural property collections require a great deal of care and protection in order to ensure their safety from external loss or damage, but they also require in-depth documentation to assist in tracking the life of the object within the holding institution.
Collection development involves activities that need a librarian or information professional who is specialized in improving the library's collection. The process includes the selection of information materials that respond to the users or patrons need as well as de-selection of unwanted information materials, called weeding .