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center for writing | literacy & rhetorical studies minor | research resources

Research resources

Minnesota collections & centers

• Center for Writing Research Library
• Givens Collection of African American Literature (UMN Libraries)
• Charles Babbage Institute: Center for the History of Information Technology (UMN Libraries)
• Special Collections & Rare Books at UMN (UMN Libraries)
• Ames Library of South Asia (UMN Libraries)
• Children’s Literature Research Collections (UMN Libraries)
• Immigration History Research Center (UMN CLA)
• Literacy Lab (UMN CLA)
• The American Swedish Institute
• Minnesota Humanities Center
• Minnesota Center for Book Arts
• Minnesota Historical Society
• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (St. John's University)
• Book History and Literacies at Minnesota (UMN)
• Electronic Text Research Center (ETRC) (UMN Libraries)

Scholarly resources on the web

• Centre for the History of the Book (The University of Edinburgh)
• SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
• Bibliographical Society of America
• The Bodleian Library (University of Oxford)
• HoBo (formerly History of the Book @ Oxford)
• History of the Book in Canada
• The University of Iowa Center for the Book
• National Communication Association
• CCCC: Conference on College Composition & Communication
• CompPile (an inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

Additional writing research resources are available on our Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing site.