Blog Post: “Banned, Burned, and Now Rebuilding: Comics Collections in Libraries”
From an Interesting and Useful Oxford University Press “Academic Insights” Guest Blog Post by Carol Tilley, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign :
Libraries and academic institutions have been slow to embrace comics in their collections and classrooms. Although there are outliers, US libraries only began to get serious about collecting comics in the late-1990s with most of the sustained interest and growth happening in the past decade.
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A chief reason for this delayed interest in comics among US librarians is a long-held prejudice against the medium.
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To help you learn more about what’s happening with regard to libraries, academic institutions, and comics, I’ve put together some links to library collections and scholarly groups for you to explore. These sources are only a beginning.
The blog post goes on to provide links to 13 collections and resources.
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See Also: Tilley Gives Keynote Addresses on Comics (via UIUC School of Information Sciences)
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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