Collection Assessment:
English Literature
Prepared by Harry D. Nuttall
(March 2014)
Introduction
Based on guidelines provided by the WLN Collection Assessment Service, which
provides a framework within which to evaluate a library’s current holdings
and the level of activity at which the collection is being developed, the English
Literature collection overall is rated at 3cP (advanced study level, predominantly
English language). The English 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 for 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
conspectus sheets and checklist tables at the end of this narrative for a more
detailed examination of the Library’s holdings.
Holdings
Collection counts indicate that the English Literature collection contains 37,506
print titles in the Library of Congress classification PR, which comprises the
literatures of the British Isles and current and former countries of the British
Commonwealth and colonies. This number includes print titles in the circulating,
periodicals, reference, and juvenile collections and represents an increase of
9.2% from the previous English Literature assessment (2007). Additionally,
there are 6,052 entries in the Library of English Literature microbook set
(PR1105.L5) as well as 306 electronic books (e-books) classed in PR. Also,
there are over 10,000 titles in the Early English Books microfilm series in LC
classification PN, many of whose content would fall under the rubric of “English
Literature.”
The classification PZ is designated “Fiction in English.” The range PZ1 through
PZ4, which excludes the mainly children’s literature call number range of PZ5 –
PZ10, contains 4,523 titles. This brings the grand total to 43,632 titles. There
were 119 withdrawals from the PR classification over the years 2005/2006
through 2011/2012.
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LC Class
Category
PR
English
Literature
Print
Holdings
37,506
E-Books
Microforms
Totals
306
6,052
43,938
Although they do not fall strictly within the scope of this assessment, from a
utilitarian perspective the non-PR class holdings, referenced in the preceding
paragraph, do strengthen and enhance the value of the English Literature
collection.
Expenditures
Fiscal Year
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
Totals
Amount Expended for
Books
$38,968
$35,148
$29,916
$33,181
$39,571
$45,631
$222,415
Amount Expended for
Serials
$12,288
$10,626
$19,440
$17,291
$17,095
$28,159
$76,740
The amounts are for all literatures. Regarding the figures given for books, it is
impossible to subdivide expenditures for “literature” into subcategories such as
for period or nation, and serials have migrated away from the individual
subscription model to the aggregator and subject database models. Dollar
amounts spent on aggregator databases cannot be sub-divided into subject
categories, but subject specific databases are included in fiscal reports. The title
subject listings in Serials Solutions present a more accurate reporting of Library
support for serials.
Books
Expenditures
Because the category of English Literature does not have a separate fund code
in the Houston Cole Library acquisitions budget -- the budget line is for just
“literature” -- a formula is required to derive a cost estimation for it. The method
used here takes the number of titles collected by Houston Cole Library in LC
class PR for the years surveyed and multiplies them by the combined mean
average cost per book as listed in the Yankee Book Peddler New Title Reports
(http://www.ybp.com/title_reports.html). This provides a useable approximation
of annual expenditures.
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Monographs Expenditures
Fiscal Year (October – September):
# titles purchased x avg. cost
2006/07 (218 x $41.56)
2007/08 (231 x $43.82)
2008/09 (179 x $46.49)
2009/10 (158 x $41.36)
2010/2011 (152 x $46.49)
2011/12 (193 x $45.92)
Total: 1,131
Expenditure
$9,060
$10,122
$8,322
$6,535
$7,066
$8,863
$49,968
The following table reveals the Library’s holdings when compared against
standard checklist bibliographies for the field of English literature. A collection
ratio of above 40% is considered acceptable and above 70%, good.
Title
ARBA 37 (2006)
ARBA 38 (2007)
ARBA 39 (2008)
ARBA 40 (2009)
ARBA 41 (2010)
Total ARBA
Recommended
Reference Books
for Small and
Medium-Sized
Libraries and
Media Centers
(RRB) 2006
RRB 2007
RRB 2008
RRB 2009
RRB 2010
Total RRB
Best Books for
Academic
Libraries (2002)
Best Books for
Academic
Libraries (2004
supplement)
Total BBAL
Titles Held
6
7
5
7
10
35
3
Titles Listed
11
12
14
14
13
64
4
Percentage
55
58
36
50
77
55
75
1
0
3
4
11
3,638
2
2
5
8
21
6,228
50
0
60
50
52
58
192
556
35
3,830
6,784
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Peer Institution Comparison Table
(Institutions used based on student population 6,000-12,000)
OCLC
Code *
AJB
Library Name
ANO
Jacksonville State University,
AL
University of Louisiana at
Monroe, LA
North Carolina Central
University, NC
Northwestern State
University of Louisiana, LA
Tennessee Technological
University, TN
The University of West
Florida, FL
University of North Alabama
KMS
Murray State University, KY
LNE
NCX
LNW
TTU
FWA
Approximate
Student
Enrollment
8,319
English Literature Book
Collection
7,243
2,577
8,300
2,758
8,643
3,521
9,920
4,168
9,826
8,164
6,120
4,186
10,832
4,435
8,932
*Enrollment data is from http://www.oclc.org/contacts/libraries
Periodicals and Serials
The library’s print periodical holdings in the PR classification consist of 34 current
or retrospective titles. In addition, currently there are 20 individual print or
electronic subscriptions to class PR. These numbers are included in, but do not
make up the totality of, the table below.
Title
Magazines for
Libraries, 20th
edition (2011)
Titles Held
125
Titles Listed
195
Percentage
64
These titles, combined with what is available through aggregator and proprietary
databases, provide access to over 505 periodical titles in literature. The table at
the very end of this assessment provides a representative sampling of the full
text journals to which the Library provides access in print and/or electronic
format, in which articles pertaining to English literature may be found. The
diversity of titles and call numbers illustrates the obstacles encountered in trying
to create a complete, comprehensive list of relevant journals for English
literature. However, these obstacles should be viewed as reflecting a strength
rather than a weakness. While accurately tabulating holdings counts may have
become more difficult, access to content has expanded greatly.
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Houston Cole Library collects a small number of print titles for English Literature,
which is expanded by relevant content in the more than two hundred electronic
databases to which the Library subscribes. These databases in turn are
supplemented by content provided through “free internet resources.”
A snapshot of these holdings can be found using the Library’s Serials Solutions
link located at http://we8af9qh2e.search.serialssolutions.com/, and performing a
subject search, as the following screen capture illustrates.
Subject Headings in Languages & Literatures
[Matter deleted]

English
o American Literature (214)
o English Language (91)
o English Literature (203)
[Matter deleted]

Literature - General (582)
Clicking on a link brings up the list of journal titles in that category. It can be
seen that between “English Literature” and “Literature – General” Houston Cole
Library provides access to 785 journals, with journals more broad in scope
adding to the accessibility of articles on English literature.
Access to periodicals and serials is multi-tiered and is complemented by the
content in Gale/Cengage’s various “Literary Criticism” book series such as Poetry
Criticism and Short Story Criticism, whose content is accessible both
electronically and in print. The particular strength of these series is that they
contain article excerpts from scholarly journals which the library never had the
budget to subscribe to and for which the database backfiles are not deep enough
to provide full text.
When viewed in a comprehensive manner it can be seen that Houston Cole
Library offers a four-tiered system of access to content in serial publications:
1) Magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in print format,
supplemented by
2) Selective full text access in some two hundred plus electronic databases
which may be searched individually by subject or title and in groups by
provider, supplemented by
3) Selective full text in free access internet websites, supplemented by
4) Gale/Cengage’s literary criticism series books.
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Non-print Media
The English Literature collection contains audio-visual titles in the PN and PR
classifications. The AV collection comprises 108 audiocassettes, 12 DVDs, 1
filmstrip, 3 kits, and 46 videocassettes in classification PN and 79 audiocassettes, 8 DVDs, 40 LP recordings, and 226 videocassettes in classification
PR.
Since the previous assessment done in 2007, the Library has begun
subscriptions to two streaming video services.
Source
VAST
Academic
Video Online
Films on
Demand
Total
Number of
Titles
134
Access via
http://vast.alexanderstreet.com/
198
http://digital.films.com/Dashboard.aspx
332
Defined Access
The Library's defined access for English literature is rated a 3c (Advanced Study
or Instructional Support). Access is provided through an extensive collection of
remotely accessible electronic resources, including bibliographic tools, texts,
indexes, journals, etc. Besides in literature-centric databases, full text articles
pertaining to English literature can be accessed through aggregator databases
covering other fields, such as psychology and sociology. Houston Cole Library
now collects books in electronic format in addition to the traditional print format,
and through ALLIES has reciprocal borrowing agreements with other academic
libraries in Alabama to give members of the JSU community access to the print
collections of these other libraries. The Library's catalog is web-based, and
disciplined-based searching is enhanced by a number of custom-prepared library
guides (LibGuides). Analytic catalog entries with links to full-text are entered into
the Library's catalog for those titles available through various aggregator
databases. In addition, the subject specialist librarian routinely evaluates
websites for inclusion (or removal). A descriptive catalog record for appropriate
sites is incorporated into the catalog, providing links to the resources through
URLs.
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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 systematized weeding or planned replacement program
for the English Literature collection.
Supplemental Support
Holdings in the related subject collections of American Literature; Western
European Literatures; Languages and Related Literatures; History; Art; Auxiliary
Sciences of History; Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion; and General Works
provide supplemental support to the English Literature collection.
SUMMARY
Strengths:
The areas in English Literature most heavily used to supplement the curriculum
-- Shakespeare and Literatures of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries -- continue to
have more than adequate holdings. In addition, there has been an observed
increase in the use of the holdings in History and Criticism by form and period
and literature from the periods of 1900-1960 (modern literature) and 1961present (contemporary literature), as well as post-colonial literatures. Collection
activity in these areas has been intensified in response.
The Library's holdings in Old and Middle English, Chaucer, Renaissance Prose
and Poetry, and Renaissance Playwrights are more than adequate for study at
the advanced level, although use of these portions of the collection has tailed off
some since the previous assessment. It should also be noted that the Library
owns complete microform sets of the Early English Books (STC 1), Early English
Text Society Publications, and the English Literary Periodicals. In addition, the
Library has substantial holdings of the Early English Books (STC II) and 3 units
of the Eighteenth Century (STC III).
The greatest improvement in the English Literature collection is in the areas of
serials and defined access and can be attributed to the proliferation of aggregator
databases and other electronic resources, as these address the area where the
collection customarily had been the weakest: access to full text articles within
the periodical literature. The inclusion of freely accessible websites and the
addition of streaming video collections enhance the collection in a manner not
available at the time of the 2007 assessment. Liaison activities with English
Department faculty have been intensified, resulting in increased faculty input in
collection development.
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Weaknesses:
Although there are no demonstrable weaknesses in the collection, canon
expansion and shifts in “high use” areas mandate close attention to collection
practices to insure that present strengths are not neglected in the interest of
collection building in other areas. At the freshman level, the collection is well
represented. Closer scrutiny should be directed toward the major field-level
courses in the 300 and 400 range.
Recommendations



Collection activity should remain at the current 3cP level.
Collection in reference should continue, balancing print and electronic
formats, for both the traditional functions of reference and to shore up
weaknesses elsewhere in the collection.
Collection practices should reflect changes in canon and curriculum.
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APPENDIX
The following tables present in greater detail information included in the
Assessment narrative.
Checklist Tables
Monographs
Title
Titles Held
Titles
Listed
Percentage
6
N/A
0
1
11
N/A
1
2
55
N/A
0
50
1
3
33
2
0
0
7
1
3
3
0
5
0
4
0
1
7
N/A
1
0
0
4
1
1
12
2
5
5
0
14
1
8
3
2
14
N/A
1
1
3
50
0
0
58
50
60
60
0
36
0
50
0
50
50
N/A
100
0
0
2
4
50
American Reference Books
Annual (ARBA)
ARBA 2006
General Works
Biography
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
Handbooks &
Yearbooks
Individual Authors
Irish Literature
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
ARBA 2007
General Works
Individual Authors
Irish Literature
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
ARBA 2008
General Works
Individual Authors
Canadian Literature
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
ARBA 2009
General Works
Bio-Bibliography
Biography
Handbooks &
Yearbooks
Individual Authors
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Title
Titles Held
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
ARBA 2010
General Works
Bio-Bibliography
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
Handbooks &
Yearbooks
Individual Authors
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
Totals
Recommended Reference
Books for Small and MediumSized Libraries and Media
Centers (RRB)
RRB 2006
General Works
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
Individual Authors
RRB 2007
General Works
Irish Literature
RRB 2008
General Works
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
RRB 2009
General Works
Biography
Handbooks &
Yearbooks
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
RRB 2010
General Works
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias
Handbooks &
Yearbooks
Individual Authors
Drama, Fiction, Poetry
Totals
Best Books for Academic
Libraries (2002)
10
4
10
N/A
1
3
Titles
Listed
5
13
N/A
1
3
Percentage
80
77
N/A
100
100
2
2
100
2
2
35
5
2
64
40
100
55
3
N/A
2
4
N/A
2
75
N/A
100
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
N/A
0
0
2
2
1
1
2
1
1
5
N/A
1
1
50
50
100
0
0
0
0
60
N/A
0
0
3
4
N/A
1
3
8
N/A
3
100
50
N/A
33
1
1
100
0
2
11
2
2
21
0
100
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Title
Titles Held
776
119
227
430
111
100
221
84
18
66
35
19
12
31
12
19
102
Titles
Listed
1325
180
392
753
184
169
400
128
28
100
45
31
24
47
15
32
192
Percentage
59
66
58
57
60
59
55
66
64
66
78
61
50
66
80
59
53
History of English Literature
General
By Period
By Genre
Poetry
Drama
Prose
English Literature -- Collections
By Period
By Genre
Poetry
Drama
Prose
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Collections
Individual Authors
Anglo-Norman Period -Individual Authors
English Renaissance (1500 –
1640) – Individual
Authors
Prose And Poetry
Drama
17th & 18th centuries – Ind.
Authors
19th century – Individual
Authors
20th century (1900-1960) –
Individual Authors
A-H
I-P
Q-Z
th
20 century (1961- ) –
Individual Authors
English Literature –
Provincial, Local
Total
Best Books for Academic
Libraries (2004 Supplement)
History of English Literature
General
By Period
By Genre
468
750
62
91
377
415
150
600
639
61
63
65
946
1376
69
986
1720
57
393
338
255
111
712
564
444
280
55
60
57
40
187
521
36
3,638
6,228
58
69
12
23
34
209
21
79
109
33
57
29
31
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Title
Titles Held
4
4
26
2
5
Titles
Listed
17
18
74
6
13
Percentage
24
22
35
33
38
Poetry
Drama
Prose
English Literature -- Collections
Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Norman
Literature
English Renaissance (1500 –
1640) – Individual
Authors
17th & 18th centuries – Ind.
Authors
19th century – Individual
Authors
20th century (1900-1960) –
Individual Authors
20th century (1961- ) –
Individual Authors
English Literature –
Provincial, Local
Total
31
67
46
9
28
32
29
87
33
26
66
39
9
24
38
12
56
21
192
556
35
Serials
Magazines for Libraries, 20th edition (2011)
Category
Titles Held
Titles Listed
Fiction: general
Fiction: Mystery and
detective
Fiction: Science fiction,
fantasy, and horror
Literary Reviews
Literature
Little Magazines
Totals
N/A
N/A
Percentage
N/A
0
5
6
18
0
28
35
72
13
125
52
78
41
195
67
92
32
64
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English Literature: Related Journals Held or Accessible
(Representative Sample)
The following table lists journals available in full text databases and also in print
format. For the print, only call numbers for journals in LC class PR are provided.
Many journals relevant to English literature also can be found in LC ranges AP
and AS and P-PN.
Because of changes in database content and accessibility of freely-available
online journals, actual holdings at any given time may not exactly match the
information on this table. For journal holdings that are current, it is best to title
check Serials Solutions http://we8af9qh2e.search.serialssolutions.com/.
Title
Albion
Alif: Journal of Comparative
Poetics
Anachronist
Angelaki: Journal of the
Theoretical Humanities
Antigonish Review
Antioch Review
Antipodes
Appalachian Journal
AUMLA
Australian Journal of Linguistics
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Review of Applied
Linguistics
Ben Johnson Journal
Bilingual Review
Biography: An Interdisciplinary
Quarterly
Book
Book History
Book Links
Book Report
Book Research Quarterly
Booklist
Bookmarks
Electronic
*
Print
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
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Title
Bookseller
Books Abroad
Books & Culture
Bookwatch
Boston Review
Boundary 2
British Journal of Aesthetics
Bucknell Review
Cambridge Quarterly
Camera Obscura
Canadian Fiction Magazine
Canadian Literature
Canadian Review of American
Studies
Carolina Quarterly
Changing English
Chasqui
Chaucer Review
Chicago Review
Children’s Bookwatch
Children’s Literature
Children's Literature in Education
Christianity & Literature
CHOICE
Cimarron Review
CLA Journal
Classical and Modern Literature
Clio
College English
College Literature
Commentary
Common Knowledge
Commonweal
Comparatist
Comparative Drama
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature & Culture
(CLC)
Comparative Literature Studies
Computational Linguistics
Confluecia
Confrontation
Conradiana
Electronic
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PR1901.C47
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Title
Electronic
Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Review
Critica
Critical Arts Journal
Critical Inquiry
Critical Quarterly
Critical Survey
Criticism
Critique
Cultural Studies
Culture, Theory & Critique
Daedalus
The Dickensian
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*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Dickens Quarterly
Dickens Studies Annual
Dickens Studies Newsletter
Differences: A Journal of Feminist
Cultural Studies
Doris Lessing Studies
Early Modern Literary Studies
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Eighteenth-Century Life
Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation
EIRE-Ireland: A Journal of Irish
Studies
*
Print
.O4C6
PR4579.D5
PR4579
.D492
PR4579.D49
PR4579.D493
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*
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ELH
English Drama Media
English in Africa
English in Education
English Language Notes
English Literary Renaissance
English Literature in Transition
English Studies
Essays in Criticism
Essays in Literature
Essays on Canadian Writing
ETC: A Review of General
Semantics
European Journal of English
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
PR1
.E5
PR1.E43
PR1.E7
*
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Title
Studies
European Legacy
European Romantic Review
Evelyn Waugh Newsletter &
Studies
Explicator
Extrapolation (Kent State Univ.
press)
Fabula
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Feminist Studies
Film & History
Film Criticism
Fine Madness
Five Fingers Review
Folklore
Fourth Genre
Frontiers: A Journal of Womens’
Studies
Fu Jen Studies: Literature &
Linguistics
Gay & Lesbian Review
Gay & Lesbian Review
Worldwide
Georgia Review
Gettysburg Review
Gothic Studies
Grand Street
Great River Review
Hanging Loose
Harper's Magazine
Harvard Review
Helios
History: Reviews of New Books
Hollins Critic
Horn Book Magazine
Hudson Review
Huntington Library Quarterly
Hypatia
Independent Shavin
Indiana Review
Inquiry
International Fiction Review
Electronic
Print
*
*
*
*
PR1.E9
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Title
International Journal of American
Linguistics
International Journal of Computer
Processing of Oriental
Languages
International Journal of English
Studies
International Journal of the
Classical Tradition
International Poetry Review
Intertexts
Iris: A Journal About Women
Irish University Review
Irish Literary Supplement
James Joyce Quarterly
Johnsonian Newsletter
Journal for the Study of the
Pseudepigrapha
Journal of Adolescent & Adult
Literacy
Journal of Aesthetics & Art
Criticism
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Canadian Studies
Journal of Caribbean Literature
Journal of English and Germanic
Philology
Journal of Folklore Research
Journal of Literacy Research
Journal of Literary Semantics
Journal of Literary Studies
Journal of Medical Humanities
Journal of Modern Literature
Journal of Narrrative Theory
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Journal of Southern African
Studies
Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Journal of Victorian Culture
Joyce Studies Annual
Keats-Shelley Journal
Electronic
Print
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PR6019.O9Z637
PR1.J64
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Title
Electronic
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Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin
Keats-Shelley Review
Kenyon Review
Kirkus Reviews
Lambda Book Report
Language & Literature (Trinity
University)
Legacy: A Journal of American
Women Writers
Lesbian Review of Books
Letters in Canada
Leviathan
Libraries & Culture
Library Journal
Lingua Franca: The Review of
Academic Life
Language and Speech
Language, Learning &
Technology
Leviathan
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary
journal of the language sciences
LIT: Literature Interpretation
Theory
Literary Criticism Register (LC)
Literacy Today
Literary Cavalcade
Literary Review
Literature & History
Literature and Psychology
Literature and Theology
Literature Film Quarterly
Literator
Long Story
Luso-Brazilian Review
Magazine of Fantasy and
Print
PR4836.A15
PR4836.A152
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PR83.L76
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Title
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MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early
Australia
Marvels & Tales
Massachusetts Review
Medieval & Renaissance Drama
in England
Medieval Encounters
Medieval Studies
Medium Aevum
MELUS
Menjin
Meridians
Metaphor & Symbol
Midwest Quarterly
Milton Quarterly
MLN
Mnemosyne
Modern Age
Modern Austrian Literature
Modern Drama
Modern Fiction Studies
Modern Language Notes
Modern Language Quarterly
Modern Language Review
Modern Philology
Monatshefte
Mosaic (Winnipeg, 1967)
Electronic
Mythlore
Mythosphere
Names
Narrative
Nashim
New Coin Poetry
New Criterion
New Letters
New Literary History
New Rambler
New York Times Book Review
New Yorker
New Zealand Books
Nexos
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PR3526.A15
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Title
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Notes
Notes and Queries
Notes on Contemporary
Literature
Nous
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
NWSA Journal
Obsidian
Oceanic Linguistics
October
Orbis Litterarum
Papers on Language & Literature
Papers: Explorations into
Children’s Literature
Paragraph
Parallax
Paris Review
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Partial Answers
Partisan Review
Paterson Literary Review
Pedagogy
Persuasions
Philological Quarterly
Philosophical Issues
Philosophy East & West
Plays
Ploughshares
PMLA
PN Review
Poetics Today
Poetry
Positions
Post Scriipt
Pretexts: Literary & Cultural
Studies
Prooftexts
Prose Studies
Publications of the English
Goethe Society
Electronic
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PR873.T76
PR873.T76
PR1.P3
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Title
Publishers Weekly
Quadrant
Queen’s Quarterly
Radical Teacher
Raritan
Reading
Reading Psychology
Reading Teacher
Reading Today
Red Cedar Review
Reinardus
Renascence
Renaissance & Reformation
Resources for Feminist Research
Review of Contemporary Fiction
Review of English Literature
Review of English Studies
Rhetoric Review
Romance Notes
Romance Quarterly
Romance Review
Romanic Review
Romantic Studies
Romantic Review
Romanticism
School Library Journal
Science Fiction Studies
Scientific Studies of Reading
SciTech Book News
Scottish Studies Review
Seventeenth Century News
Sewanee Review
Shakespeare
Shakespeare Bulletin
Shakespeare Newsletter
Shakespeare in Southern Africa
Shakespeare Quarterly
Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeariana
Shaw: The Annual of Bernard
Shaw Studies
Shaw Review
Electronic
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PR2885.S64
PR2888.C3
AP2.A51 Reel 270-271
PR5366.A15
PR5366.A15
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Title
Short Story
Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture & Society
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal
of Criticism
Social Text
South Atlantic Quarterly
Southern Literary Journal
Southern Quarterly
Southern Review
Southwest Review
Story Quarterly
Story, Self, Society
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
Studia Neophilologica
Studies in English Literature
(Rice)
Studies in Philology
Studies in Romanticism
Studies in Scottish Literature
Studies in Short Fiction
Studies in the Humanities
Studies in the Literary
Imagination
Studies in the Novel
Studies in Travel Writing
Studies in Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Literature
Studies in Twentieth Century
Literature
Style
Substance: A Review of Theory &
Literary Criticism
Symposium
TDR: The Drama Review
Texas Studies in Literature &
Language
Textual Practice
Textual Studies in Canada
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Research International
Times Literary Supplement
Electronic
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Touchstone
Translation & Literature
TriQuarterly
Trollopian: a Journal of Victorian
Fiction
Tulane Studies in English
Twentieth Century Literature
University of Toronto Quarterly
Verbatim
Victorian Institute Journal
Victorian Newsletter
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Studies
Vigiliae Christianae
Virginia Quarterly Review
Vivarium
Vocabula Review
War, Literature & the Arts: An
International Journal of the
Humanities
West Virginia University
Philological Papers
Wilson Quarterly
Winterthur Portfolio
Wisconsin Studies in
Contemporary Literature
World Literature Today
Women and Language
Women's Review of Books
Women's Studies
Women’s Studies in
Communication
Worcester Review
Word Ways
Wordsworth Circle
World Englishes
World Literature Today
Writer
Writers Digest
Writing
Written Communication
Yearbook of English Studies
Electronic
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NON PRINT MEDIA
The following table illustrates the variety of non-print items pertaining to English
literature available in Houston Cole Library. It is representative, not comprehensive, and covers only Library of Congress classification PR. Similar materials are
also available under LC classification PN.
AUDIO VISUAL HOLDINGS CLASSED IN PR-PR9999
Classification
PR4854 .J87x 1950z
PR1867 .C4B4
PR 2831.A2 B5 Album
PR 3488 .A2 S5 Album
PR 4303 .B8 W6
PR4832 .R53
PR6013 .R35A17 1957
PR6036 .H52E9
PR1178 .C5L42
PR2065 .G3B3
PR4852 .P6K3
PR1868 .W6A8
PR 5363 .C15 A4 Album
PR2759 .R4
PR4611.N6 L5
PR 2823.A2 Q8 Album
PR 2829.A2 S56 Album
PR 2802.A2 Q8 Album
PR 2807.A2 S35 Album
PR5363 .M33 1952a
Album
PR5363 .M33 1952a
Album
PR6001 .U4W8
PR3566 .R3 Album
PR 5403 .P75
PR2664 .A1S5
PR1581 .A5B4
PR2246 .B89
Title
Just so stories and other tales :
The Canterbury tales
Romeo and Juliet.
She stoops to conquer
Poetry of Robert Burns and Scottish border
ballads
The poetry of Keats.
Robert Graves reads from his poetry & from
The White Goddess.
An evening with Dylan Thomas, reading his
own and other poems.
Miracles
Dialogues from Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight and Pearl
The poems of Rudyard Kipling.
The wife of Bath's prologue.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Soul of an age.
Nonsense verse
Macbeth
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
Don Juan in hell
Format
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Don Juan in hell
Record
W. H. Auden reading from his works.
Samson Agonistes
The poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The tragical history of Dr. Faustus
Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry
Love poems
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
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PR2358 .A4M3
PR 3622 .P6 R3
PR4189 .A1 1950r
PR6036 .H52A6 1952
PR6019 .O9U4 1956
PR1867 .M293
PR1261 .E8 1955
PR 4803 .H44 A17
PR 4809 .H15 A7 1965
PR1205 .P63
PR 5558 .A2 C2 Album
PR5551 1957a
PR 5852 .P3 H2
PR3682 .S3 1973
PR2848 .A2G52 Album
PR1502 .D89
PR6025 .A86T5
PR2831 .A23 1981
PR2819.A2 S33 Album
PR1896 .B76
PR1868.M57 B7
PR1868.N7 B7
PR6005 .O4Z7425
PR 3184 .D8 1976
PR1945 .C5 Album
PR1583 .A9
PR2759 .S57 Album
PR4172 .W72 1981
PR2807 .A23 1981
PR6007.U6 S76x
PR6001 .M6C3
PR4352 .P68x 1972
PR1868 .P8A9
PR 4611 .A4 C4x 1983
Album
PR 2827.A2 W4 1983
Album
PR 4854 .J8x 1983
Album
PR6007.U47 R542 1983
PR4472 .R94x 1983
PR5397 .F732 1983
The faerie queene, book III.
The poetry of Alexander Pope.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Selections from the writings of Dylan Thomas
Ulysses;
The Canterbury tales:
Everyman, a moral play.
The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
A Shropshire lad, and other poems.
Poetry of the XVII century.
Idylls of the king.
Poetry.
Poetry of Wordsworth.
The school for scandal
Sonnets.
Early English poetry.
The three fat women of Antibes.
Romeo & Juliet
The tragedy of King Lear
Troilus and Criseyde:
Chaucer: the Merchant's tale.
Chaucer: the Nun's priest's tale.
The Heart of Conrad.
The Duchess of Malfi
The sounds of Chaucer's English,
Selections from Beowulf
Scenes from Shakespeare's plays.
Wuthering Heights
Hamlet
Stories from The book of wonder, Jorkens
remembers Africa and The fourth book of
Jorkens
Kingsley Amis reading A case of samples
Poetry of Byron
Prologue to the Canterbury tales and part of
the Nun's priest's tale
Alice in Wonderland
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Record
Cassette
Record
Record
Record
Cassette
Record
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Filmstrip
Video
Record
Record
Record
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
A midsummer night's dream
Record
The jungle book stories
Record
Rebecca
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein
Cassette
Record
Cassette
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Cassette
Record
Record
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PR2013 .C63x 1971
Album
PR 4034 .P72 1981
PR6051 .D3352L52 1984
PR2920 .G58x
PR2920 .D29x
PR4621 1984b
PR4622 .R482 1984
PR4622 .M452 1984
PR6005.H66 P642 1986
PR 2807.A2 A9
PR1867 .R677
PR6037.T617 D72 1983
PR6039.O32 H62 1979
PR2920 .S513x 1986
PR643.M8 E17x 1975b
PR2900 .S517x 1984
PR 590 .Y68x 1984
PR545.M4 M47x 1987
PR 561 .R47x 1987
PR4202 .M32
PR3722 .S44x 1989
PR9199.3.A8 A6 1992
PR4825.J3 A7753 1988
PR9199.3 .K443 S49
1991
PR6039.O32 L62 1979
pt.1
PR6039.O32 L62 1979
pt.2
PR6039.O32 L62 1979
pt.3
PR3072 .L36x 1990
PR4621 1989
PR2803.A2 W54 1982
PR2832.A2 W54 1982
PR3072 .S38x 1994
PR6003.E282 K7 1992b
PR6013.O35 L6 1992
PR 4571 .A2 1989
PR 6011 .O58 H62 1992
PR 1906.5 .P76x 1993
PR 6005 .H66 F56 1996
PR 6005 .H66 H68 1995
PR 6005 .H66 I53 1989
Visions from Piers Plowman
Record
Pride and prejudice
Life, the universe and everything
The Globe Theater:
A Day at the Globe Theater
Four Sherlock Holmes stories
Return of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Poirot investigates
Hamlet's soliloquy
The pardoner's prologue and tale
Bram Stoker's original Dracula
The hobbit
Shakespeare and the Globe
Early English drama
Shakespeare, soul of an age
Younger romantics, 1800-1824
Metaphysical & devotional, 1590-1670
Restoration & Augustan, 1660-1745
Poetry.
A modest proposal & other essays
The poetry and voice of Margaret Atwood
Three men in a boat
Shoeless Joe
Cassette
Cassette
Filmstrip
Filmstrip
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Record
Record
Cassette
Cassette
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Record
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
The fellowship of the ring
Cassette
The two towers
Cassette
The return of the king
Cassette
Language and character
Sherlock Holmes stories.
As you like it
The taming of the shrew
Shakespeare's language
Krapp's last tape
Lord of the flies
A tale of two cities
Howards End
A prologue to Chaucer
The Nemean lion
The house of lurking death
The incredible theft
Video
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Video
Video
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Video
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
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PR 6005 .H66 L47 1996
PR 4588 .D66x 1995
PR 2807 .S514x 1988
PR 4168 .B76x 1994
PR 6045 .O72 Z474 1990
PR 4622 .S882 1984
PR 1874 .G46x 1999
PR 1868 .P8 1993
PR 1868 .M6 1993
PR 1868.W63 W54x
1997
PR 2920 .S514x 1997
PR 2918 .I507x 1992b
PR 2916 .W48x 1992
PR 2920 .S512x 1993
PR 6037 .H23 Z516x
1994
PR 6045 .O72 M7 1999
PR 2622 .A1 1999
PR 4664 .A1 1988
PR 4036 .J38x 1997
PR 5366 .G46x 1984
PR 6051.D3352 R4 1991
PR 5774.W33 W37x
1996
PR 4611.A73 A46x 1996
PR 3724.G8 G85x 1996
PR 5397.F73 F77x 1996
PR 2045 .M67x 1996
PR 2818 .A23 1998
PR 2822 .A23 1998
PR 2820 .A23 1998
PR 2834 .A23 1998
PR 2835 .A23 1998
PR 2833 .A23 1998
PR 2836 .A23 1998
The Lernean hydra
Doorway to Dickens
Shakespeare and his stage
The BronteÌ sisters
A Room of one's own
A Study in scarlet
Geoffrey Chaucer: the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer: the general prologue to The
Canterbury tales
Chaucer reads Chaucer
The Wife of Bath
Cassette
Kit
Video
Video
Video
Cassette
Video
Video
Shakespeare's Globe restored
In the steps of William Shakespeare: London
William Shakespeare's secrets in Stratfordupon-Avon
Shakespeare and his theatre
Peter Shaffer
Video
Video
Video
Mrs. Dalloway
Volpone
The mill on the Floss
Jane Austen's life, society, works
George Bernard Shaw and his times
The restaurant at the end of the universe
The war of the worlds
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Video
Video
Cassette
Video
Alice in Wonderland
Gulliver's travels
Frankenstein
Le Morte d'Arthur
A fully dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's King John
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Love's labour's lost
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Richard II
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's The tempest
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
Video
Video
Video
Video
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Video
Video
Video
Video
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
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PR 2829 .A23 1998
PR 2819 .A23 1998
PR 2808 .A23 1998
PR 2804 .A23 1998
PR 2839 .A23 1998
PR 2821 .A23 1998
PR 2830 .A23 1998
PR 2832 .A23 1998
PR 2838 .A23 1998
PR 2816 .A23 1998
PR 2815 .A23 1998
PR 2814 .A23 1999
PR 2825 .A23 1998
PR 2807 .A23 1999
PR 2823 .A23 1998
PR 2811 .A23 1998
PR 2810 .A23 1998
PR 2806 .A23 1998
PR 2805 .A23 1998
PR 2831 .A23 1998
PR 2802 .A23 1998
PR 2812 .A23 1998
PR 2801 .A23 1998
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Othello
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's King Lear
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Comedy of errors
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's The winter's tale
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Richard III
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Pericles
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's The two gentlemen of Verona
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry VI, part III
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry VI, part II
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry VI, part I
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Hamlet
A fully dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Macbeth
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry IV, part two
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry IV, part one
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Cymbeline
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Coriolanus
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry V
A fully dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's All's well that ends well
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Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
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PR 2826 .A23 1998
PR 2828 .A23 1998
PR 2803 .A23 1998
PR 2817 .A23 1998
PR 2824 .A23 1998
PR 2870 .A23 1998
PR 2827 .A23 1998
PR 2837 .A23 1998
PR 9619.3 .F66 Z7 1992
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's The merry wives of Windsor
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's As you like it
A fully-dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Henry VIII
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's Measure for measure
A fully-dramatised recording of William
Shakespeare's The two noble kinsmen
A fully dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
A fully dramatized recording of William
Shakespeare's Twelfth night
Trumpet Video visits Mem Fox
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Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Cassette
Video
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