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The Libraries and Archives serve Smithsonian Institution staff as well as the scholarly community and general public with information and reference support. Its collections number nearly 3 million volumes including 50,000 rare books and manuscripts. The Libraries' collections focus primarily on science, art, history and culture, and museology. [3]
The Tretter Collection houses over 40,000 items, making it the largest LGBT archive in the Upper Midwest and one of the largest GLBT history collections in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The collection, which was created by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter , is international in scope and is varied in media.
London Metropolitan University was formed on 1 August 2002 by the merger of London Guildhall University and the University of North London.In October 2006 the University opened a new Science Centre as part of a £30m investment in its science department at the North campus on Holloway Road, with a "Super Lab" claimed to be one of Europe's most advanced science teaching facilities, [8] [9] [10 ...
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 ...
LEARN Collection, 1974–1999 (CSLA-14) William F. Masterson Papers, 1960–2001 (CSLA-19) Rebuild LA Collection, 1992–1997 (CSLA-6) Roman Catholic families. Dockweiler Family Collection (2 collections: CSLA-12, CSLA-13) Documents for the History of the Machado Family and the Rancho La Ballona (CSLA-32) Joseph Scott Collection, 1909–1951 ...
The library owns the world's largest collection of Marcel Proust correspondence, as well as the personal papers of H. G. Wells, Carl Sandburg, W.S Merwin, and Gwendolyn Brooks. [28] Several collections pertain to the Spanish Civil War, and the library has a collection of materials created by the Combat Paper Project. The library's later ...
The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.–Baltimore area. [citation needed] The system includes eight libraries: six are located on the College Park campus, while the Severn Library, an off-site storage facility, is located just outside campus, and the Priddy Library is located on the University System of Maryland satellite campus in ...
Such a standard enables archives, museums, libraries, and manuscript repositories to list and describe their holdings in a manner that would be machine-readable and therefore easy to search, maintain and exchange. [18] Since its inception, many archives and special collections have adopted it.