Reference tools and other supporting materials, including microfilm and digital publications, will be purchased as needed to support research use of the above. Materials are acquired to provide support for graduate teaching of book history, and undergraduate and graduate teaching of book arts, including design and typography. The aim is to create a collection with strength in its breadth rather than in comprehensiveness of coverage for a narrow area. Other presses, such as the Arion Press and Circle Press, are collected intensively. Books, serials, and ephemera of the Victorian era are collected to support upper division undergraduate, graduate and faculty studies in literary criticism, European and American history, and the history of the book.
Original bindings are preferred.
European Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Manuscript Facsimiles. Materials are acquired to support interdisciplinary and specialized mediaeval and early Renaissance studies at the upper division undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels, with emphasis on manuscripts that include material useful to musicologists, art historians, and literary historians and theorists. Textile and Fashion History. Materials are acquired to support the work of upper division undergraduates, graduates, and faculty, especially in conjunction with research use of LSU's Historic Textile Collection. At present, collecting focuses on fashion aspects and handwork rather than industrialized manufacturing.