Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and serials published in Great Britain and the United States from the mid-17th century through the present.[1] Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States. The product of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection development efforts, this vast assemblage of literature printed primarily for children offers an equally vast territory of topics for the researcher to explore: education and upbringing, family and gender roles, civic values, racial, religious, and moral attitudes, literary style and format, and the arts of illustration and book design.[2][3][4]
Collection Strengths
One of the strengths of the Baldwin Library collection is its large number of comparative editions of classic stories such as Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, Aesop's Fables and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[1] It also houses considerable collections of juvenile biography, 19th century science and natural history, 19th century alphabet books, moral tales, fairy tales, 19th century juvenile periodicals, 19th century boys' Adventure Stories, 20th century boys' and girls' series, Little Golden Books, pop-up books, and juvenile publications of the American Sunday School Union and other tract societies. The Baldwin Library has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any U.S. academic institution.[1]
The Baldwin Library has received three NEH grants to digitize its books and the digital versions are continually being added to the Baldwin Library's Digital Collection which had over 929,000 pages online in August 2011, all within the University of Florida Digital Collections. The Baldwin Library is also a contributor to the International Children's Digital Library.
References
- 1 2 3 "Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature". George A. Smathers Libraries. University of Florida. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
- ↑ Leslie Barbon (2005). "The Evolution of Children's Literature Getting Sidetracked–Delightfully–at the Baldwin Library". Children and Libraries (Spring): 43–47.
- ↑ "Best of the Web". www.nypl.org. New York Public Library. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ↑ "Children's Historical Collections Further information and online collections of historical children's literature.". www.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
External links
- Celebrating Research by the Association of Research Libraries on the Baldwin Library
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in NINES (Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online)
- Recent dissertations published with research in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Microfilm sets for of materials from the Baldwin Library from CENGAGE
- Hidden Collections Registry Entry on the Baldwin Library from the Council on Library and Information Resources
- Website: Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Digital Collection web portal: Baldwin Digital Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Fellowship awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children to support librarians who want to study at the Baldwin Library: Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship