Geography and Anthropology. Women in Renaissance Literature. Highly selective acquisitions will be made in honor of the late Professor Josephine Roberts, a distinguished scholar in the field, to support graduate level study and teaching in the field. The Contemporary Poetry Collection was donated by Andrei Codrescu , who continues to add to its holdings. We do not currently add to it by purchase, but gladly accept donations of current material, especially from small presses.
Emphasis is on American poets, but others are also accepted .
As such, it is a closed collection. However, reference materials are acquired to facilitate its use. The Judge Warren L. Jones Lincoln Collection, Gladney Chess Collection, Judge Oliver P. Carriere Collection of Poker and Hoyle, and the Rendell Rhoades Crawfish Collection were all formed by the individuals whose names they bear. They are essentially closed collections, for which reference works are occasionally acquired. C. Desired Level of Collecting Due to funding and staffing limitations, collecting must always be selective.