WSU Retention List Stories

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. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

As we approach the Labor Day holiday, below are two of the many titles related to labor issues and strikes on the WSU retention list.

Manning, Thomas G., editor. The Chicago Strike of 1894; Industrial Labor in the Late Nineteenth Century. Holt, 1960.

Sulzberger, Cyrus Leo. Sit down with John L. Lewis. Random House, 1938.

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. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Emeritus Professor Brian Aldrich (Sociology) devoted considerable research to the issue of housing in less developed economies. Both of his books, which are now only available for purchase in India, are on WSU’s retention list.

Aldrich, Brian C., and Ranvinder Singh Sandhu. Housing in Asia: Problems and Perspectives. Rawat Publications, 1990.

Aldrich, Brian C., and Ranvinder Singh Sandhu, editors. Housing for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries. Rawat Publications, 2015.

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. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Among the many texts on Winona State’s retention list which deal with labor issues, there are two pamphlets from the National Museum of Wales that deal with the history of child labor.

Evans, Richard Meurig. Children in the Mines, 1840-42. Museum Schools Service, National Museum of Wales, 1972.

Evans, Richard Meurig. Children in the Iron Industry, 1840-42. Museum Schools Service, National Museum of Wales, 1972.

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. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Every library collection has its unique qualities. The patterns of books in our retention list demonstrate where our collection differs from others. Within the first thousand volumes of our retention list labelled, the longest streak of consecutive separate titles (not just volumes of a series, such as in story three) was five, and those books deal with the economy of Bangladesh. Not only does that shelf have a run of five titles, but it has three additional retention titles. Apparently, our campus has had a strong interest historically in the economy of Bangladesh, stronger than other campuses in Minnesota. Below is one title in that streak. Note: this record run was ultimately matched by musical scores by Joaquín Rodrígo (see story twenty), and will likely be exceeded during further labeling.

Seabrook, Jeremy. Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today. London: Zed Books, 2001.