Collection Assessment:
American Literature
Prepared by
Harry D. Nuttall
July 2009
Introduction
Following guidelines established by the WLN Collection Development Service
(which provide an overview of a library's current holdings and the level of activity
at which the collection is being developed), the American Literature collection
(Library of Congress classification PS) is rated an overall 3cP (Advanced Study
Level, with English as the primary language). The American Literature collection
is central to the University curriculum since it supports study for degree programs
in English at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels and degrees in language
arts and secondary education offered by the College of Education, as well as
study by K-12 teachers pursuing the Master’s degree. The collection also
supports students taking a minor in English along with the degree in their major
field. Refer to the checklists, tables, and conspectus sheets which follow this
narrative for a more detailed examination of the library's holdings.
Books
The American Literature collection contains 44,812 print titles in classification
PS, representing an increase of 1,003 titles over the previous assessment
completed in 2003 and also taking into account the 297 items withdrawn from
the collection in the period 2003-2008. This number includes the 14,795
microfilm titles in the Wright's American Fiction series and is supplemented by
4,364 titles remaining in the adult fiction PZ1 through PZ4 classifications. An
additional 11,538 titles are included in the juvenile PZ5 through PZ10 collection.
Electronic books (e-books) contribute 418 titles to the total count, making the
grand total of titles from all these sources 60,996. The expenditures in this area
show a consistent spending pattern with spikes in 2005/2006 and 2006/2007.
The dollar amounts are for acquisitions in English as an academic discipline;
there are no separate line-items in the acquisitions budget for expenditures in
American Literature, English Literature, or Western European Literature.
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Expenditures
Monographs Expenditures for ENGLISH
(American Literature expenditures are not posted as a separate fund code.)
Fiscal Year
2003/04
2004/05
2005/06
2006/07
2007/08
Total
Expenditures
$35,610.92
$35,939.64
$37,816.75
$38,967.72
$35,148.39
$183,483.42
Comparison of Houston Cole Library book acquisition levels in Library of
Congress classification PS with statistics gathered from Blackwell’s US Approval
Program Coverage and Cost Study reveals the following acquisitions rates:
Year
HCL
Blackwell
Percentage
2003-2004
406
2,348
17.3
2004-2005
432
2,257
19.1
2005-2006
366
2,605
14.0
2006-2007
401
2,293
17.5
2007-2008
425
2,736
15.5
Totals
2,030
12,239
16.6
Compiled from Blackwell’s All Publishers’ Approval Plan Coverage
(http://www.blackwell.com/librarian_resources/coverage and cost/).
Using the WLN conspectus as a basis, a reasonable guideline to consider for
assigning an acquisitions indicator of 3 or higher would be a book acquisitions
rate that is equal to at least 15-25% or more for the appropriate universe of titles
published annually in a division. The suggested percentages of book publishing
output are:
1a-2a
2b
3a
3b
3c
4-5
= less than 5%
= 5-10%
= 10-15%
= 20%
= 25%
= 30%
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The 16.6 total percentage is lower than the recommended 25% for a level of 3c,
but this figure does not include the 150 titles contributed by electronic books or
the books included in some electronic databases which, together, should raise
the total much nearer to the 3c level. A sizable portion of the literature budget is
committed to electronic databases; but there is no way to include database
content in the title count, which somewhat skews these statistics.
A complicating factor is that until very recently much of the budget for literature
was committed to standing orders, and a substantial portion of the budget still is
devoted to purchases in LC classification PN (General Literature). In subject
matter many of these titles support American Literature and would make the total
percentage even higher, but they are not represented in the statistical count.
The following bibliographies were checked against the Library's holdings,
revealing the corresponding percentages.
Title
America as Story (1997)
American Historical Fiction
(1999)
ARBA 2001
ARBA 2002
ARBA 2003
ARBA 2004
ARBA 2005
ARBA 2006
ARBA 2007
ARBA 2008
Choice’s Outstanding Academic
Titles, 1998-2002 (2003)
Dickinson’s American Historical
Fiction, 5th edition (1986)
Principal Information Sources in
Language and Literature
Reference Works in British and
American Literature, volume I
(1990)
Reference Works in British and
American Literature, volume II
(1990)
Held
149
863
Listed
293
3387
Percentage
50.9
25.5
9
10
9
9
4
5
12
16
76
17
19
16
17
17
12
21
22
118
52.9
52.6
56.3
52.9
23.5
41.7
57.1
72.7
64.4
928
2,870
32.3
82
105
78.1
582
795
73.2
671
1,196
56.1
Serials
Much of the serials coverage for American literature is in scholarly journals which
are general or multi-national in scope. Some journals deal exclusively with
American literature; some take a more general approach to literature but include
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articles on American literature; and some general reviews cover a diversity of
subjects, among which is American literature. While not comprehensive, this
group does include the major titles for the discipline.
The Houston Cole Library currently subscribes to 28 print journals in the
American Literature classification PS, which represents an increase in four titles
from the 2003 assessment. This number is supplemented by a few journals in
the PS classification which have ceased publication or to which the subscription
has been cancelled, by several journals in the Languages and General Literature
classes (P through PN), by general reviews in classes AP through AS, and by
the occasional journal found in another classification. Serials access is further
increased by journals included among the aggregator databases to which
Houston Cole Library subscribes. The finding aid Serials Solutions lists 104
periodical titles under the rubric for American Literature and 351 titles under
Literature -- General.
The serials holdings for American literature are complemented and strengthened
by the many Gale Literary Criticism series titles owned by Houston Cole Library
or accessible through the Literary Resource Center database. These number
some hundreds of volumes and provide selective access to criticism in journals
to which the Library has never subscribed and for which the back files of the
Library's subscription databases are not deep enough. Further complementing
the serials collection are the full text journal articles accessible through the
Library's aggregator database subscriptions. Consult the Table of Periodicals
contained in this assessment or search Serials Solutions or the Library’s online
catalog for details regarding a specific journal title.
The following table displays serial expenditures in literature for Houston Cole
Library over the past five years.
Serials Expenditures for ENGLISH
(American Literature expenditures are not posted as a separate fund code.)
Fiscal Year
Expenditures
2003/04
2004/05
2005/06
2006/07
2007/08
* NAAL began paying for the MLA database.
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$18,409.99
* $12,262.40
$11,469.70
$12,287.81
$10, 626.08
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The following indexes and bibliographies were checked against the Library's
holdings for serial titles pertaining to American literature, revealing the
corresponding percentages:
Title
Held
Magazines for Libraries 15th ed.
Reference Works in British and
American Literature, volume I
(1990)
112
51
Listed
Percentage
250
86
44.8
59.3
Critical articles pertaining to American literature also can be accessed via the
database LitFinder.
Non-print Media Assessment
The non-print media portion of the American Literature collection is housed in
the Houston Cole Library Audio-Visual Center and is distributed as follows.
Format
Audiocassettes
CDs
DVDs
Filmstrips
Kits
Videocassettes
Total
Number
38
8
60
17
21
46
190
These numbers are supplemented by another 59 videocassettes assigned a PN
classification, but whose subject matter clearly identifies them as
part of the American Literature collection.
Defined Access (Access to Electronic Resources)
The Library's defined access is rated a 3c (Advanced Study or Instructional
Support). Houston Cole Library subscribes to an extensive collection of remotely
accessible electronic resources, such as indexes, journals, electronic books, full
text aggregator databases, and special subject-related services. Most of the
electronic journal titles are integrated, analyzed, and accessible through the
Library’s online Voyager catalog.
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Houston Cole Library’s print holdings in American Literature are enhanced by
access to electronic resources such as the MLA Bibliography Online, EBSCO’s
Academic Search Premier, Gale’s Academic Onefile and Literature Resource
Center, and H.W. Wilson’s Humanities Index and OmniFile Full Text Mega. Full
text articles pertaining to American literature also can be accessed through
aggregator databases covering other fields such as psychology or sociology.
Additionally, subject specialist librarians review and recommend sites from the
World Wide Web for inclusion in the Voyager catalog.
There are 418 e-books in the American Literature collection. These can be
located via a direct link to the vendor’s website or through the Library’s online
catalog.
Preservation Commitment
The Preservation Commitment is rated a 2, Physical Preservation Level.
Material is retained for its useful life and mended whenever possible. When the
item is beyond mending, efforts are made to replace it. Because materials on
literature have a longer useful life than those in, for example, the physical
sciences, there is no systematic weeding or planned replacement program
for the American Literature collection.
Supplemental Support
Holdings in the related collections of English Literature; Western European
Literature; Languages and Related Literatures; History; Art; Drama; Music;
Juvenile Literature; Auxiliary Sciences of History; Philosophy, Ethics, and
Religion; and General Works provide supplemental support to the American
Literature collection.
SUMMARY
Strengths
Total holdings, conspectus evaluation, and checklist comparisons indicate that
the American Literature collection (class PS) has maintained the 3cP level. The
strength of the collection is evident in the high holdings percentages shown in
checklist bibliographies such as Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles and
Principal Information Sources in Language and Literature. In addition, the
increase in subscription databases has enhanced the serials holdings for
American literature, just as e-books have done for the monograph collection.
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The primary purpose of the collection is to support teaching and research
activities at the Core, Baccalaureate, and Master’s level curricula. Given this
stipulation, not every subgroup of any national literature will be ranked at the
highest level, but intensive collection in the areas for curriculum support and
faculty research balances the overall collection level to a 3cP ranking. The
statistics in the checklists and tables confirm this ranking.
The lower percentages in the checklists indicate a focused collection strategy, as
exemplified by the bibliographies of American historical fiction and, especially,
some of the ARBAs. The unpurchased titles, which lower the percentages, are
for books that are out of scope for curriculum and research purposes or whose
amount of use could never justify their high prices. The lower percentages
indicate a prudent allocation of limited resources.
For curriculum support, particular attention is given to the areas of History and
Criticism (by form and period) and Literature of the 19 th and 20th centuries.
These already-strong areas continue to be strengthened. Recently, increased
attention has been given to the post-1960 period (Contemporary Literature,
PS3551 and above). Contemporary works of American drama, fiction, and
poetry are regularly added to the collection but, until recently, this has not been
the case with criticism of these works. Critics have not yet given the newest
authors the same attention as authors firmly within the canon; and this feature is
even more noticeable in the call number range of PS3601 and above, which is a
post-2000 expansion of the class to include literature of the twenty-first century.
Almost as important as curriculum support is the need to support faculty
research interests, and select areas of American literature receive additional
attention for this reason.
The American Literature canon has expanded beyond the more traditional focus
of period, region, genre, and individual authors to include critical approaches
focusing on authors' ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, among others.
Genre studies of detective/mystery fiction, literature of the fantastic, and
literature of the American West also are increasing and must be represented in
the collection. Recently, interdisciplinary studies importing methodologies from
other academic fields have assumed a larger presence in the critical literature.
Most of this activity occurs in the range of PS1-478 (General Criticism and
History), the anthologies in PS501-690 (Collections), and in the contemporary
authors section (PS3551 and above). Collection activity is particularly heavy in
PS100-379, which covers period, region, and genre studies as well as ethnic
literatures. The collection from PS700-893 (Colonial & Eighteenth Century) is not
very strong, but materials in Library of Congress classes B, E, and F support this
area. Class E supports literary study from an ethnic approach, while class H
provides supplemental materials for the study of literature from the perspectives
of gender or sexual orientation.
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Weaknesses
The acquisitions level was rated between a 3a and 3b in the 2003 assessment.
This has been improved but still is not quite at the desired 3c level overall.
At present the biggest obstacle to attaining a 3c level is the budget. The
Houston Cole Library acquisitions department has worked wonders; but every
year book (and other) costs increase without a corresponding increase in
purchasing funds, and the subject specialist librarian has had to adopt a rigorous
selection method not even imagined at the time of the 2003 assessment.
Defined access and access to electronic databases both have improved since
the 2003 assessment, but the serials budget faces the same difficulties as the
book budget. As an example, the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) no longer can
afford to sponsor EBSCOhost’s Literary Reference Center database, so Houston
Cole Library will lose access to this very useful but very costly reference tool.
Recommendations
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Collection activity should continue to try to reach an overall 3cP level.
Areas that are receiving increased emphasis within the curriculum
should be monitored to keep pace with demand.
The print reference collection should be expanded for curriculum and
research support.
Electronic databases should be examined to identify ways they can
complement one another, leading to more efficient use.
Communication between the subject specialist librarian(s) and the
academic faculty should be coordinated to better address curriculum
and research needs.
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Checklists and Tables:
American Literature Assessment ( 2009)
America as Story (1997)
Section
Colonial America
Held
14
Listed
18
Percentage
77.7
24
35
68.6
25
46
54.3
29
44
65.9
19
34
55.9
13
22
59.1
14
22
63.6
11
149
20
293
55.0
50.9
The American Revolution and
the New Nation
The Civil War and
Reconstruction
Westward Expansion and the
Native American Response
Immigration, Industrialization,
Urbanization
The Jazz Age and the
Depression
The United States and World
War II
America in the Modern World
Totals
American Historical Fiction (1999)
Section
North America before 1600
1600-1699: The North American European
Settlers
1700-1774: The American Colonies
1775-1783: The American Revolution
1784-1814: The Early United States
1815-1845: Early Westward Expansion
1846-1860: Slavery, Abolitionists, and
Women’s Rights
1861-1865: The Civil War
1866-1889: Reconstruction and Development
of the West
1890-1940: Progressive Era, World War I, and
the Great Depression
1941-1945: World War II
1946-1975: The Mid-Twentieth Century
After 1975: The Late 20th Century
Totals
9
Held
7
17
Listed Percentage
40
17.5
61
27.9
25
29
34
46
48
96
88
115
172
246
26.0
33.0
29.6
26.7
19.5
57
142
199
892
28.6
15.9
266
875
30.4
56
131
5
863
168
424
11
3387
33.3
30.9
45.5
25.5
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American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)
ARBA 2001
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
9
Listed
17
Percentage
52.9
7
2
14
3
50.0
66.7
10
19
Percentage
52.6
6
4
11
8
54.5
50.0
9
16
Percentage
56.3
7
2
9
7
77.8
28.6
9
17
Percentage
52.9
5
4
9
8
55.5
50.0
4
17
Percentage
23.5
3
1
9
8
33.3
12.5
ARBA 2002
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
ARBA 2003
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
ARBA 2004
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
ARBA 2005
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
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ARBA 2006
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
5
Listed
12
Percentage
41.7
2
3
8
4
25.0
75.0
12
21
Percentage
57.1
9
3
15
6
60.0
50.0
16
22
Percentage
72.7
6
10
10
12
60
83.3
ARBA 2007
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
ARBA 2008
Section
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
General Works
Individual Authors
Held
Listed
Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles, 1998-2002
American Literature
Section
United States
18th & 19th centuries
20th century to 1950
20th century after 1950
Held
76
24
19
20
11
Listed
118
35
33
33
Percentage
64.4
68.6
57.6
60.6
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Dickinson’s American Historical Fiction (1986)
Section
Totals
Colonial America to 1775
The American Revolution
The Young Nation, 1783 to 1860
The War of 1812
Expanding Frontiers, 1783 to 1893
Eastern and Southern Frontiers
The Middle West
The Southwest
California and the Pacific Northwest
The Plains States and the Far West
The Civil War -- Before and After
The Old South
Abolition
The War Years
Reconstruction
The Nation Grows Up, 1877 to 1917
World War I
The Nineteen-Twenties
The Nineteen-Thirties
World War II
The Tense Years, 1945 to 1959
The Turbulent Years, 1960 to 1977
Chronicles
Held
Listed
928 2,870
50
155
63
176
36
145
6
34
159
647
31
79
27
116
33
155
22
112
46
186
149
325
22
45
9
31
91
214
17
37
123
304
22
85
69
185
74
238
68
277
44
156
51
162
83
191
12
Percentage
32.3
32.2
35.8
24.8
17.6
24.6
39.2
23.3
21.
19.6
24.7
45.8
48.9
29.0
42.5
45.9
40.5
25.9
37.3
31.1
24.5
31.5
43.5
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Principal Information Sources in Language and Literature:
American Literature/Literature of the United States
Section
Totals
Various Genres
General
Bibliographies & Catalogs
Indexes, Abstracts, & Serial Bibliographies
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks
Biographical & Critical Sources
Histories & Chronologies
Fiction
Bibliographic Guides
Bibliographies & Indexes
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks
Biographical & Critical Sources
Poetry
Bibliographic Guides
Bibliographies & Indexes
Anthologies & Collections
Biographical & Critical Sources
Held Listed Percentage
82
105
78.1
37
46
80.4
3
4
75.0
5
7
71.4
1
1
100.0
5
6
83.3
21
24
87.5
2
4
50.0
30
40
75.0
2
3
66.67
11
14
78.6
3
5
60.0
14
18
77.7
15
18
83.3
0
0
0.0
4
6
66.7
2
3
66.7
9
9
100.0
Magazines for Libraries, 15h edition
Section
American Literature
Held
112
Listed
250
Percentage
44.8
1
1
6
27
60
17
8
8
34
60
77
63
12.5
12.5
17.6
45.0
77.9
27.0
General Fiction
Mystery and Detective Fiction
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Literary Reviews
Literature
Little Magazines
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Reference Works in British and American Literature, vol. I (1990)
Section
Held Listed
580
788
Totals
General Literary Research Guides
Specialized Literary Research Guides
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks,
Histories
Indexes, Abstracts, Annual Reviews, Serial
Bibliographies
General Bibliographies
Specialized Bibliographies – Literary Forms
and Genres
Drama
Fiction
Poetry
Specialized Bibliographies – Literary Periods
To 1475
1475-1700
1700-1800
1800-1900
Specialized Bibliographies – Subjects
Biographical Sources
Core Journals
Percentage
73.6
19
75
71
21
86
82
90.5
87.2
86.5
17
25
68.0
41
27
58
43
70.6
62.8
6
16
7
99
18
24
19
17
57
110
64
9
23
11
165
35
41
29
30
82
118
108
66.7
70.0
63.6
60.0
51.4
58.5
65.5
56.7
69.5
93.2
59.3
Reference Works in British and American Literature, vol. II (1990)
Section
Held
671
237
144
115
146
Totals
Author last names, A-F
Author last names, G-L
Author last names, M-R
Author last names, S-Z
14
Listed
1,196
472
252
194
240
Percentage
56.1
50.2
57.1
59.3
60.8
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Table of Periodicals for American Literature
Title
African American Review
Agni
Alabama Literary Review
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
American Drama
American Indian Quarterly
American Journal of Philology
American Literary History
American Literary Realism
American Literary Scholarship
American Literature
American Notes & Queries
American Poetry Review
American Scholar
American Theatre
ANQ
Antigonish Review
Antioch Review
ARIEL
Arizona Quarterly
Atlanta Review
ATQ (American Transcendental Quarterly)
Belles Lettres
Beloit Poetry Journal
Black American Literature Forum
Black Warrior Review
Boundary 2
Bucknell Review
Callaloo
Cather Studies
CEA Critic
Chicago Review
Christianity & Literature
CLA Journal
Clio
Colby Quarterly
College Composition and Communication
College English
College Literature
Comparative Drama
Comparative Literature
15
Electronic
X
X
Print
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Title
Comparative Literature Studies
Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Review
Critical Inquiry
Critical Quarterly
Critical Survey
Criticism
Critique
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Dreiser Studies
Early American Literature
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Eighteenth-Century Life
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
English Language Notes
ESQ
Essays in Criticism
Essays in Literature
Evergreen Review
Explicator
Extrapolation (Kent State Univ. press)
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Faulkner Journal
Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review
Field
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
Flannery O’Connor Review
Flyway
Frontiers: A Journal of Womens’ Studies
Gay & Lesbian Review
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Georgia Review
Gettysburg Review
Great River Review
Hanging Loose
Harvard Review
Hemingway Review
Henry James Review
Hollins Critic
Hudson Review
Indiana Review
James White Review
Journal of Modern Literature
16
Electronic
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Print
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Title
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of the Southwest
Kenyon Review
Langston Hughes Review
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Leviathan
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
Literary Review
Literature & History
Literature and Psychology
Literature and Theology
Literature Film Quarterly
Literator
Louisiana Literature
Luso-Brazilian Review
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Mailer Review
Mark Twain Circular
Mark Twain Journal
Markham Review
Massachusetts Review
Melville Society Extracts
MELUS
Merton Annual
Metaphor & Symbol
Minnesota Review
Mississippi Quarterly
Mississippi Review
MLN
Modern Drama
Modern Fiction Studies
Modern Language Notes
Modern Language Quarterly
Modern Language Review
Modern Philology
Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967)
Mythlore
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Negro American Literature Forum
New Laurel Review
New England Quarterly
New England Review
New Literary History
17
Electronic
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Print
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Title
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Nineteenth-Century Literature
North American Review
Notes on Contemporary Literature
Notes on Mississippi Writers
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Papers on Language & Literature
Paris Review
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Partisan Review
Philip Roth Studies
Philosophy and Literature
Plays
Ploughshares
PMLA
Poet Lore
Poetics Today
Poetry
Pynchon Notes
Renascence
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Saul Bellow Journal
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Studies in American Fiction
Studies in American Naturalism
Studies in Short Fiction
Studies in the American Renaissance
Studies in the Literary Imagination
Studies in the Novel
Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature
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Texas Review
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Thomas Wolfe Review
Thoreau Society Bulletin
TriQuarterly
Tulane Studies in English
Twentieth Century Literature
Virginia Quarterly Review
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
Walt Whitman Review
War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the
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Western American Literature
Western Humanities Review
World Literature Today
Yeats Eliot Review
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Table of Non-print Media (selected titles)*
Call Number
PS 3521.E735 O5 2004
PS 3552 .R698 C38 2005b
PS 3557.R5355 L372 2004
PS 3563.O87147 G362 2000
PS 3569.T33828 G73 1999b
PS 1449.C85 Z965
PS1338 .U56
PS1881 .H398
PS2387 .M393
PS3048 .T467
PS3053 .T464
PS3231 .W455
PS3507.R55 Z625
PS3511.I9 G845
PS3511.I9 Z8468
PS3523.E94 Z654
PS3523.O46 Z654
PS3529.N5 Z753
PS3537.A426 Z835
PS3537.A618 Z877
PS3537.T3234 Z875
PS3545.O337 Z8633
PS3505.A2533 A614 1990
PS3525.I5156 D4 1973
PS 3519 .O2625 G6 1967
PS 1294 .C63 A93 1991
PS 2116 .G6 1991
PS 3048 .A1 1994
PS 3503 .R7244 A6 1989
PS 3503.A923 W592 1972
PS 3503.U1828 Y62 1986
PS 3505 .U92 G64x 1996
PS 3505.A3113 P6772 1986
PS 3515.U1417 A772 1998
PS 3515.U1417 B382 1991
PS 3515.U1417 E52 1993
PS 3515.U1417 F432 1991
PS 3515.U1417 F552 1991
PS 3515.U1417 G862 1993
Title
On the road
Cat's eyewitness
The last juror
Gap Creek
Granny Dan
The vision of Stephen Crane
Uncle Mark
Hawthorne
Melville
The Threefold gospel of Walden Pond
Thoreau:
Whitman-- the American singer
Dreiser's tragic America
Gatsby--the American myth
Scott Fitzgerald
Main Street revisited
Jack London
O'Neill
Redemption in Manhattan: J. D. Salinger's
The catcher in the rye
Streets, prairies, and valleys
Steinbeck's losers
Thomas Wolfe
I-VI /
The Modern drama: Death of a salesman,
by Arthur Miller
God's trombones and selected 20th-century
Negro poetry
The awakening
The golden bowl
Walden
Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poetry
The wizard of Oz
You can fool all of the people all of the time
The gold hunters
The postman always rings twice
Ai! Pedrito!
Battlefield earth
Empty saddles
Fear
Final blackout
Guns of Mark Jardine
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Call Number
PS 3515.U1417 H672 1994
PS 3515.U1417 O542 1992
PS 3515.U1417 S632 1993
PS 3525 .A4152 N6x
PS 3535 .I233 D37 1995b
PS 3537 .A832 Z52 1982
PS 3545 .A517 J82 1991
PS 3545 .H16 E7 1992
PS 3552 .A4343 Z4662 1986
PS 3552 .A45 J82 1984
PS 3552 .U476x G83 1992
PS 3552.R685434 D3 2003g
PS 3553 .O4753 A372 1997
PS 3553.O5198 Z462x 1996
PS 3553.R48 D572 1993
PS 3553.R48 T562 1999
PS 3558 .A4427 M37 1995
PS 3558 .O3548x A43 1986
PS 3561 .E667 O62 1986
PS 3561.E3755 L38 1993
PS 3561.E3755 L38 1993
PS 3561.E3755 P72x 1999
PS 3562.U26 M32 1997
PS 3563 .O8749 Z52 1983
PS 3565 .L82 I87x 1981
PS 3565 .L82 Z52 1981
PS 3569 .E84 Z52 1982
PS 3569.A516 C472 1999
PS 3569.T1249 H86 1999b
PS 3573.E1955 E462 1999
PS 3573.O572 V472 1999
PS1305 .A3 1972
PS3048 .A3 1992
PS3501.N4 W5 1983
PS3503.L718 P72 1986
PS3503.R167 M372 1985
PS3505.U92 G62x 1992
PS3505.U92 W64x 1992
PS3509.L43 W3 1975
PS3523.O46 C32 1981
PS3523.O46 S5 1989
Title
Hot lead payoff
Ole Doc Methuselah
Slaves of sleep & The masters of sleep
Norman Mailer
Dark fields of the Republic
May Sarton interview
Margaret Walker reads Jubilee (excerpts)
Ethan Frome
Growing up
James Baldwin reads Just above my head
(excerpts)
Guess who got the last hot dog
The Da Vinci code
Air Force One
Life as a novelist
Disclosure
Timeline
A Map of the world
Alabama's Jim Gilbert
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
A prairie home companion 25th anniversary
collection
The Matarese countdown
Toni Morrison interview with Kay Bonetti
Tillie Olsen reading selections
Tillie Olsen interview
Mary Lee Settle interview with Kay Bonetti
Certain prey
Hunter's moon
The emperor's general
A very strange trip
Huckleberry Finn
Nature & spirit
Winesburg, Ohio, with E.G. Marshall
Psycho
Martian chronicles
God's country and the woman
The wolf hunters
The waste land, four quartets and other
poems
Call of the wild
The sea-wolf
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Call Number
PS3525.A27 A6 1952
PS3535.O39 A6 1972
PS3537.A832 A83 1982
PS3537.A832 M9 1984
PS3545.E6 W49x 1986
PS3551.S5 A6 1985
PS3551.S5 C62 1985
PS3552.U8125 Z472 1990
PS3553.L245 H82 1986
PS3556.L26 F72 1992
PS3558.A327 W62 1986
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 1
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 10
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 11
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 12
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 13
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 14
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 15
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 16
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 17
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 18
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 19
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 2
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 20
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 3
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 4
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 5
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 6
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 7
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 8
PS3560 .A1796x A6 1988 no. 9
PS3561 .E3755N48x 1983
PS3561.E3755 G89x 1994
PS3562 .I51193 M42 1992
PS3562.E42 A79 1985
PS3563.A7877 I5 1985b
PS3563.A7877 Z52 1985
PS3563.E75 A6 1972
PS3568.I265 Q442 1988
Title
Archibald MacLeish reads his poetry
Theodore Roethke reading his poetry
May Sarton reads As we are now and
Journal of a solitude
My sisters, o my sisters
Eudora Welty reads Why I live at the P.O.
The feeling of power
Stories from The complete robot
Papa, my father
Richard Crenna reads The hunt for Red
October
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Cafe
A woman of independent means /
The playmate
Princess
Someone at the door
The birthday present
The specialist
The arsonist
The last stop
The Everett eyes
A matter of time
Friday afternoon
The hitchhiker
Lost and found
A time to remember
Adios, Mr. Cox
Flight 901
Shon al freed ya
The costume party
The Blue Club
The look-alike
Chon
News from Lake Wobegon
Guy Noir, radio private eye
Mercy
Music and poetry of the Kesh
Bobbie Ann Mason reads excerpts from In
country
Bobbie Ann Mason interview with Kay
Bonetti
W. S. Merwin reading his poetry
The queen of the damned
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Call Number
PS3569.M6173 A6 1986
PS3573.A425 Z52 1981
PS 1305 .A76x 1996
PS 1305.A2 G35x 1985
PS 1305.A2 H65x 1980
PS 1322 .M25 1985
PS 1331 .M219x 2001
PS 1408.A2 B35x 1981
PS 1408.A2 L67x 1985
PS 1541 .A6 1997
PS 1541 .Z5 E3917x 1995
PS 1868 .S27x 1996
PS 1870 .A3 1987
PS 1872 .R36 1985
PS 2068 .A2 C87x 1987
PS 2123 .H44x 1995
PS 2384 .B28 B28 1988
PS 2384 .B28 B28 1988
PS 2384 .M6 1984b
PS 2384 .M6 1998d
PS 2384.B6 C6 1985
PS 2384.B6 C6 1985
PS 2384.M62 M62x 1996
PS 2386 .H46x 1995
PS 2631 .E34x 1997
PS 2631 .M97x 1994
PS 3231 .W328x 1997
PS 3238 .W34x 1988
PS 3505.R272 Z6724x 1988
PS 3511.A86 Z98569 1980b
PS 3511.I9 Z6144x 1997
PS 3515 .A515 Z74x 1992
PS 3515 .A515 Z74x 1992
PS 3515.E37 Z586952x 1998
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1986
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1986
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1986
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1998b
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1998b
PS 3529 .N5 L6 1985
Title
The colors of our age
Alice Walker interview with Kay Bonetti
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's The man that corrupted
Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans
The World of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
The Scarlet letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-told tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's
daughter
Rip Van Winkle
Henry James: American writer, 1843-1916
Herman Melville's Bartleby, the scrivener
Herman Melville's Bartleby, the scrivener
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Billy Budd
Billy Budd
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe: terror of the soul
The mystery of Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Hart Crane
William Faulkner--a life on paper
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into
night
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Call Number
PS 3529 .N5 L6 1992
PS 3529 .N5 L6 1992
PS 3529 .N5 L6 1992
PS 3529.N5 D4 1986
PS 3529.N5 H8 1984
PS 3529.N5 Z6348x 1996
PS 3531.O82 Z6215x 1988
PS 3537 .T323 Z619x 1995
PS 3545 .I5365 S8 1982b
PS 3545 .I5365 S8 1994
PS 3545 .I5365 S8 1996
PS 3545 .I5365 S8 1996
PS 3545.A517 Z82x 1998
PS 3545.I5365 Z8472x 1989
PS 3545.I544 Z9566x 1988
PS 3545.R815 A74 1987
PS 3551 .N464 Z762x 1982a
PS 3553.O8826x Z67 1996
PS 3554 .E1147 Z92x 1996
PS 3557.A353 Z62x 1995
PS 3557.E469 Z56x 1999
PS 3560.O517 Z72x 1999
PS 3561 .E39255 Z5 1993
PS 3561.I4253 Z72x 1999
PS 3563 .A4345 G56 1993
PS 3563 .A4345 G56 1993
PS 3563 .O8749 Z47x 1987
PS 3563 .O8749 Z48x 1991
PS 3563.O884569x Z57 2001
PS 3563.U764 Z54x 1996
PS 3564.A827 Z87x 2000
PS 3569 .E6 A4 1986
PS 3569.T3444 Z74x 1995
PS 3570 .A232x G48x 2005
PS 3573 .A425 C6 1987
PS 3573 .A425 C6 1997
PS 3573.I45677 Z52x 1994
PS2386 .H47x 1985b
PS3048 .T48x 1988
Title
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into
night
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into
night
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into
night
Eugene O'Neill's Desire under the elms
Eugene O'Neill's Hughie
Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
Margaret Walker Alexander
Tennessee Williams and the American
South
William Carlos Williams
Richard Wright's Almos' a man
Maya Angelou
Dennis Covington
A Visit with Tomie dePaola
Charles Gaines
Anne George
Madison Jones
Trumpet Video visits Steven Kellogg
Nanci Kincaid
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross
Toni Morrison
A Writer's work with Toni Morrison.
Barbara Moss
Albert Murray
Sena Jeter Naslund
Sendak
Getting to know William Steig
Getting to know Simms Taback
The Color purple
The Color purple
August Wilson
Herman Melville, damned in paradise
Thoreau's Walden
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Call Number
PS3501.G35 Z5 1985
PS3525.I495 Z77x 1993b
PS3545 .I32165 Z463x 1987
PS3553 .O47456 Z4652x 1992b
PS3563.A319 L6 1988 VHS
PS3572.O5 Z468x 1975b
PS3573.E4938 Z88 1994
PS3573.O526 Z47x 1989
PS 1305.A2 L44x 2003
PS 1331 .M219x 2004
PS 1408.A2 D39x 2001
PS 2067.A2 W35x 2006
PS 2067.A2 W54x 2003
PS 2384 .B28 B28 2003
PS 2649 .P5 A15 2006
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 2002
PS 3525 .I5156 D4 2002b
PS 3529 .N5 L6 2004
PS 3535 .A547 F6 2006
PS 3545 .I5365 S8 2006
PS 3552 .R228 M5 2001
PS 3563 .A4345 G56 2002
Title
Agee
Renascence
A conversation with Richard Wilbur
Robert Coles, teacher
Lonesome Dove
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: a self-portrait
A visit with Rosemary Wells
Tom Wolfe.
Mark Twain's The adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The last of the Mohicans
Sleepy Hollow
The legend of Sleepy Hollow
Bartleby
O. Henry's full house
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Death of a salesman
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into
night
The fountainhead
A Streetcar named Desire
The mists of Avalon
Glengarry Glen Ross
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