Bowling Green State University, Browne Popular Culture Library records
Collection Overview
Abstract
Records of the Browne Popular Culture Library, part of the Special Collections of the BGSU University Libraries. Although containing some materials relating to the founding of the BPCL, the bulk of the collection documents the operations of the library during the 1980s and 1990s, including monthly and annual reports and accession information.
Dates
- Creation: 1968-2010
Extent
7.97 Cubic Feet (20 letter size archive boxes and 3 half-letter size archive boxes)
Creator
- Bowling Green State University. Popular Culture Library (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL) was founded in 1969 and has become the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States. Its focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Collection strengths include: research materials on popular fiction, popular entertainment, and the graphic arts.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following series:
- Correspondence, 1969-2001 (bulk 1990-2001)
- Subject Files, 1968-2009
- Symposia/Conferences, 1994-2000
- Monthly Reports, 1988-2006
- Accessions, 1989-1997
- Annual Reports, 1986-1996
- Printed Materials and Articles, 1972-2002 (gaps)
- Photographs, 1993, 2003, undated
Subject
- Bowling Green State University. Popular Culture Library (Organization)
- Bowling Green State University. Popular Culture Library -- Archives (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Bowling Green State University, Browne Popular Culture Library records
- Author
- Cindy Radford, Nick Pavlik
- Date
- March 2019, July 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin