TWU Libraries

About the Collection

• The Children's Collection is located on the Garden Level of the Library and is one of the largest Children's Book Collections in the United States. The collection houses approximately 42,000 volumes including a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction, reference materials, software, and multimedia materials.
  
  
• The Children's Collection Service Desk can assist with requests.
  
  
• Children's Collection & Media Collection Hours:
  Monday-Thursday, 8am-10pm
  Friday, 8am-7pm
  Saturday, 9am-6pm
  Sunday 2pm-10pm
  
  
• Media Collection: The Media Collection is located on the Garden Level of the Library [within the Children’s Collection] and provides TWU faculty, staff, and students with access to over 10,000 media and multi-media titles. More

Children's Historical Collection

• The Children's Collection also includes a historical collection of approximately 3,000 volumes, including a rare edition of Pilgrim's Progress, a 1777 New England Primer, and an 1898 edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.
  
  
• The Historical Collection is available to patrons during the following hours:
  Monday, 9:00am-3:00pm
  Tuesday, 9:00am-3:00pm
  Wednesday, 9:00am-3:00pm
  Thursday, 9:00am-11:00am
  
  
• The Historical Collection of Children's Literature was established in January 2002 by the TWU School of Library and Information Studies as a resource for scholarly study and teaching of children's literature of the twentieth century. This noncirculating collection, located in the Children's Collection of Blagg-Huey Library, numbers approximately 3,000 volumes, including milestone books from the 18th and 19th century, as well as general fiction, novelty picture books, series titles, story collections, Mother Goose and poetry, nonfiction and biographies, related professional reference works, and early readers designed for instruction.