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Afro-American Rare Books Collection
This is a microfiche collection of books by African Americans: It was put on fiche and published in 1977 by Kistler Data Management. ARBC "was selected in late 1976 from the holdings of the Western States Black Research Center in Los Angeles, California, by its founder and Director, Mayme Clayton, librarian, . . . ." (Clayton & Allen, 1977, p. i). There are 152 documents, mostly first editions, written in the 19th and 20th centuries on Afro-Americans. The originals are in the Center just mentioned, in Los Angeles. Subjects covered are many: education, history, humor, literature, music, religion, slavery, etc. Besides text, the fiche also include pertinent portraits, maps and music.In our online catalog (OPAL), one can only access the title of the whole set: Afro-American Rare Books Collection. Individual microfiche can NOT be retrieved in OPAL at this time. In order to find titles, authors, or subjects one has to consult the print guide, Index to the Afro-American Rare Book Collection, which was compiled and edited by Mayme A Clayton and Kathleen S. Allen: REF Z 1361 .N39 C54 1977. This thorough guide is in the Library Reserve Office. In the TITLE section of the index, brief summaries of the contents of each book on fiche are provided, too.
Only a few libraries own this microfiche collection: Wayne State University; University of Alabama in Birmingham; Northern Arizona University Library, Flagstaff; and the Cleveland Public Library, to name several.
- Circulating Collections
- Dean Stokes Collection
- Mary Ward Brown Collection
- Dewey Collection
Periodicals
(See info commons and other databases.)
Magazines and Newspapers in print, microform, and CD-ROM formats located on the main floor. Also, close to 5,000 titles are available through the online system.
Reserve Materials
See Reserve.
Videotapes, Films, and Audiotapes
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