Treasure Trove of Primary Research Material at freelibrary.org

by Adrienne Pruitt, Special Collections Archivist
March 22, 2012

We have many fantastic children’s literature collections at the Free Library, including the Lloyd Alexander papers, a Beatrix Potter collection, the Tomi Ungerer papers, and the Virginia Lee Burton papers, and we wrote blog posts about most of them. I and my assistants have been working for the past two years to catalogue all of this material and get finding aids and digitized items online. Our finding aids can be seen here http://libwww.freelibrary.org/ead/ and all of the digitized items can be seen here http://libwww.freelibrary.org/diglib/DigLibLst.cfm?chk=13&srch=1&keyword=, with more to come soon. Thanks again for helping us raise awareness of these materials. We’ve seen a lot more research use in the past few years and hope it continues.