Originally posted March 14, 2024
Winona State accepts donations of books by members of the general public (though we reserve the right to decide whether to add them or not). Some of those donations have shown up on our retention list. Here are two donations, the first from the estate of Daniel Besser, who was a U.S. Marine, WSU graduate, and high school history teacher, and another from the estate of Minnesota film promoter Al Milgrom.
Oflag 64: The Fiftieth Anniversary Book. Evanston, Ill: Evanston Pub., 1993.
(An oflag, or offizierlager, was a German prison camp for captured enemy officers during World War II.)
Tarkovsky, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich. Andrei Rublëv. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Originally posted March 21, 2024
Works by members of marginalized communities, almost by definition, are likely to be uncommon. Here are two volumes of creative work by members of marginalized ethnic and gender communities.
Baraka, Amiri. The Baptism & the Toilet. New York: Grove, 1969.
Holoch, Naomi, and Joan Nestle. Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction. New York: Plume, 1993.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.