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About the Children's Literature Interdisciplinary Collection

The Children's Literature Interdisciplinary Collection aims provide a research center for students and faculty at Western Washington University and to be a regional center for the scholarship of children's literature. We are still in the planning stages and hope to officially open in the spring of 2008.

The purpose of the Children's Literature Interdisciplinary Collection is:

  • to establish a wing of the library that houses a research level collection of children’s and young adult literature; providing a dynamic space to study, explore, and examine writing and illustration for child/teenage readers.
  • to serve programs and courses at Western Washington University from a variety of disciplines (i.e., Communication, Art, Education, English, Theatre Arts, Library Science, and Fairhaven College)
  • to provide a regional resource center for the study of children’s literature. This may be accomplished through the use of the regional shared catalog, SUMMIT, by the publication and dissemination of print resources, and via the Web site, as well as through special programming such as the annual Bond Children's Literature Conference, and featured author/illustrator events.

 

Web site maintained by Sylvia Tag, Western Libraries
Web site created by Jon Dillon, Western Libraries
Last update: 9.24.2007
Contact: sylvia.tag@wwu.edu