Michigan State University Libraries

If you are interested in learning more about our materials or rare books, the following links may interest you.

The following digital collections were created by the Digital & Multimedia Center at MSU Libraries from materials available in Special Collections.

American Radicalism - A selection of materials from the American Radicalism section which have been digitized by the Digital & Multimedia Center.
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project - Created from highlights of our Cookery Collection.
The Michigan Writers Series - This series features individual Michigan writers for an evening of readings and discussion with their audience. With the writer's permission, the reading, discussion, and a short interview are taped and made available online.
Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America - A digitized collection of some of the Sunday School Books Collection.

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The Comic Art Collection Homepage - Learn about our collection of foreign and domestic comics. Includes an index of the collection.
The Michigan Writers Collection - Biographies of some of the authors in the collection.
Primary Sources Online Exhibit - Introduces the many types of primary sources used by researchers, with examples from Special Collections.
Save America's Treasures Online Exhibit - The exhibit illustrates some of the conservation treatments performed on the Teaching Young American’s collection and how the library administered them.

Access & Preservation Department of MSU Libraries
Preservation Tips - Provided by the A&P dept. of MSU Libraries- Important and timely information about taking care of rare books, fragile paper, and other materials.
Books and Booksellers - A list provided by the Library of Congress.
"Your Old Books" - A guide to rare books and book values, from the American Library Association

Giving to MSU Libraries - Learn how you can support Special Collections & the MSU Libraries.

Shaping the Values of Youth was funded with a grant from the Library of Congress / Ameritech National Digital Library Competition in 1999.
Jan Bluestein Longone, the eminent culinary historian, wrote the introductory essay and provided summaries of all 76 cookbooks in the Feeding America project.
Baker Hall on the MSU campus is named in honor of Ray Stannard Baker. The Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection also bears his name.