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Graphic Novels: Adventures in Collecting
Rebecca B. VarghaSLA Education Division July10, 2015
Defined by Stephen Weiner in his book, “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel.”
Graphic Novels
DC Comics releases Watchmen in 1986…
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns also in 1986…
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Superman-Man of Steel
Why collect?
LIS Program School of Education Department of English Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
David Carr’s question: “What kind of institution do we wish to be?”
Institutional portrait• Purpose• Understanding users• Growth for the institution?• Changing world of the user?
CollectionsAccording to Carr:• Where is the center?• Is the collection alive and in motion?
Breen Collection in 2003 26,000 items Collection weighed more than 2 tons
Sustainability Cost of processing Format challenges
Preservation and formats
American culture-scholarly study
Public and school libraries SILS Students Papers indexed in LISS and available here: https://
cdr.lib.unc.edu/search?action=setFacet%3apath%2c%223%2cuuid%3a94f2df65-25e7-474d-a0b6-2fdc0f305b1e!4%22&facets=path:2,uuid:2f5733dc-e5d6-4822-ab7f-8832ef66cec8
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