Welcome to our new location
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and the William Charvat Collection of American Fiction are proud to join their colleagues from the Hilandar Resaerch Library and the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Library in becoming the new Special Collections department at the newly renovated William Oxley Thompson Main Library at the Ohio State University Libraries. Operating from the Jack and Jan Creighton Reading Room, the newly merged Special Collections will again offer full public service to our faculty and students in addition to international scholars and friends and supporters of Special Collections. Within our new department, each library will retain its own identity as both Rare Books and Manuscripts and Charvat American Fiction remain distinct administrative units with individual budgets and individually defined missions in terms of collecting and programming.
Special Collections is now located on the first floor of Thompson Library overlooking the grand oval and iconic Mirror Lake: perhaps the best location in this most splendid of new buildings. We welcome you to visit and experience this new facility.
Geoffrey D. Smith (Ph.D.), Professor and
Head, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Add comment October 13th, 2009
