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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER
Time periods collected
Special Collections concentrates its purchasing on 19th-, 20th-,
and 21st-century materials. Items produced earlier may be purchased with
endowments where considered appropriate. Imprints in the collection date from
the 15th century through the 21st century, while manuscript materials date
from the 14th through the 21st centuries. Date is not a factor when documenting
seminal scholarly activity in disciplines in which the department collects.
For all intents and purposes, items in the Libraries’ collection printed
prior to 1825 should be transferred to the Special Collections Research Center;
these items are by their very age produced in the hand-press and early machine-press
eras, where print runs were naturally quite small. Further, all materials from
1825 through 1890 should be routinely reviewed to determine if they should
be transferred to Special Collections. The goal is to ensure that rare, highly
valuable, or difficult-to-replace items are kept in secure storage while maintaining
their accessibility to researchers.
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