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Special Collections is where the University Library keeps its rare and special materials.
This could encompass books that were printed in the 15th century
but also holds the popular culture collection.
This is a collection that has literally thousands
of popular magazines that entail men’s magazines,
adventure magazines, confession romance magazines.
That’s probably one of our most important collections,
one of our most well used collections.
It’s one were very proud of, and they're fully catalogued,
and so we get a lot of use for them not only here at MSU,
but also a lot of interlibrary loan requests come in as well.
Some of them are indexed, but more often than not we will get a request
from a patron here at MSU who will say, “I’m studying film in the 1930’s,
can you give me some information on that?”
and so we’re able to go back and we know the title
of a particular film magazine and we can bring out
all the issues from the 1930’s.
That’s the importance of cataloguing these items,
so that they are accessible and then we can go back into the stacks
and bring out the material that is most relevant to people’s research.