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Change is coming for users of Ohio State’s manga collection!
A new Manga Collection Development Policy has just been developed, creating two collections:
- Manga in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Complementing the primary collecting areas of the BICL&M, the manga collection focuses on manga magazines and newspapers, original artwork by manga artists, and translated manga.
- Manga in the general circulating collections:
- Manga. Broadly representative collection focusing on well-known manga titles and examples of various genres.
- Secondary sources on manga and anime. History and criticism monographs, cartoonists’ biographies and autobiographies, reference works, guides to manga, and related works are collected extensively.
- Translations of manga into English are collected selectively as duplicates of holdings in the BICL&M.
What does this mean for users of the manga collection? At the moment, nothing has changed. However, wheels are starting to turn which will eventually change many of currently-non-circulating manga housed in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum into items that can be borrowed from the general Japanese language collections! Please read the full policy for (some) details about what will become part of the circulating collection and what will stay in the special collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Musuem.
When the change is made, manga available for circulation will also be available for interlibrary loan.
Important note: This will take time…… We have a lot of other work to do in the Libraries…. Please be patient! This is a big change for us…
