Rare Books, Special Collections & Sherlock Holmes Tim Johnson Curator of Special Collections & Rare Books Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

Rare Books at the U of M Andersen Horticultural Library, Arboretum, Chanhassen James Ford Bell Library, West Bank, Wilson Library Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine Special Collections & Rare Books, Andersen Library

THE COLLECTIONS—NOT IN ANDERSEN LIBRARY Andersen Horticultural Library, Arboretum, Chanhassen

THE COLLECTIONS—NOT IN ANDERSEN LIBRARY James Ford Bell Library, West Bank, Wilson Library

THE COLLECTIONS—NOT IN ANDERSEN LIBRARY Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Special Collections & Rare Books

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Children’s Literature Research Collections

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY University Archives

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Manuscripts Division

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Charles Babbage Institute

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Social Welfare History Archives

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Kautz Family YMCA Archives

THE COLLECTIONS—ANDERSEN LIBRARY Immigration History Research Center

HOW CAN YOU USE THESE MATERIALS? Elmer L. Andersen Library

MORE ON HOW TO USE MATERIALS --Know the collection of interest and unit that owns it --Registration Form --Staff retrieves material; items don’t circulate --Reading Room protocols

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTIONS

Sidney Paget (1860-1908)

Frederic Dorr Steele (1874-1944)

William Gillette (1853-1937)

Basil Rathbone (1892-1967)

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995)

Arthur Conan Doyle Christopher Morley FIRST CLUE

SECOND CLUE

THE LUNCH: 1947 THE FOUNDING: 1948

26 YEARS LATER . . . 1974 THIRD CLUE

1978 PHILIP S. HENCH

FOURTH CLUE JOHN BENNETT SHAW EDITH MEISER

UNDERGROUND IN ANDERSEN LIBRARY

HOW DOES ONE BECOME A CURATOR? Elmer L. Andersen Library

QUESTIONS / DISCUSSION

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Tim Johnson Curator of Special Collections & Rare Books 111 Andersen Library 222 21 st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-3552 [email_address]