Copley Library Annual Report 2018-2019

Time Traveling: A New Collection for Special Collections

At Copley Library, our Special Collections contains rare books, postcard collections, bookplate collections, manuscripts and artifacts. In past years, inconsistent funding has made it difficult to establish and maintain new collecting areas. However, this year our circumstances have changed for the better. Special Collections now has a budget to buy books and the library’s renovation has jumpstarted the transfer of at risk nineteenth and early twentieth century books from the general collection to the protected, climate controlled environment of Special Collections. One outcome of this improved environment has been the creation of a travel guide collection that complements our collection of vintage postcards. These travel guides not only document the past geographically but also socially

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