The Florence Powell Minis Room

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Materials Collected

The Florence Powell Minis Room Collection of Lane Library contains non-circulating resources that describe and illustrate the history, literature, and personalities of Savannah and its surrounding area, including coastal Georgia.

Books of history and literature form the bulk of the Collection, which includes complete sets of the publications of Conrad Aiken and Flannery O'Connor. Current materials are added to the Collection as they are published, and appropriate out-of-print works are pursued and purchased when possible. The Minis Room also houses rare or expensive items and duplicates of works in the general collection. Publications of Armstrong Atlantic State University are included. Papers of prominent Savannahians, journals, media materials, maps and vertical file materials may be added to the Collection, although the emphasis remains on collecting books.

Photographs from two sources in the Minis Room Collection have been published on the Web as Digital Collections. Living in Savannah displays digitized images, originally photographed by Armstrong students, from a two-volume scrapbook of circa 1940 Savannah street scenes. Art Work of Savannah, taken from the 1893 book by Charles M. Olmstead, contains digitized photographs of Savannah buildings and locations.

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Finding What You Need in the Collection

Books and media in the Minis Collection are cataloged in GIL, Lane Library's online public access catalog. Researchers may search GIL by author, title, and subject to identify materials housed in the Minis Collection. Manuscript collections are also described with Finding Aids.

AASU students, faculty and staff, members of the Savannah community, and researchers from out of town with questions about scope or use of the Collections are welcomed to contact Caroline Hopkinson, Reference Librarian and Head of Special Collections and Archives. Telephone: (912) 344-3019. Mailing address:

Special Collections
Lane Library
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia 31419-1974

Policies & Procedures

Researchers are asked to introduce themselves by presenting a picture ID and signing in at the Reference Desk prior to requesting materials from the Minis Collection. After using GIL to identify books in the Collection, researchers should write down the titles and call numbers of items needed, and give the list to the reference librarian on duty at the Reference Desk on the first floor of Lane Library.

The reference librarian will retrieve the requested materials from the Minis Room. The reference librarian will decide how many books can be obtained at a time. Researchers may use the books in the reference area of Lane Library. Minis Collection books do not circulate outside the Library.

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Photocopying

Photocopying of Minis Room materials may be permitted, unless it is determined by the librarian that the stress of photocopying the item will damage it. The reference librarian on duty must approve all photocopying. If photocopying is permitted, researchers may use Lane Library's public photocopy machines (10 cents per page).

Browsing the Collection

AASU faculty and students registered in the Historical Methods Course:

AASU faculty and students from the Historical Methods Course have permission to enter the Minis Room to browse the Collection 8 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday. Please identify yourself to the reference librarian, sign in at the reference desk, and ask the librarian to let you into the Minis Room. If AASU faculty and students registered in the Historical Methods Course need to use the Minis Room at times other than the above hours, they should contact Caroline Hopkinson, Reference Librarian and Head of Special Collections and Archives, in advance by telephone at (912) 344-3019 or by e-mail at hopkinca@mail.armstrong.edu.

Other researchers:

Other researchers may browse the Collection with the permission of the librarian in charge of the Special Collections and by appointment. For appointments or additional information about the Florence Powell Minis Collection, contact Caroline Hopkinson, Reference Librarian and Head of Special Collections and Archives, by telephone (912) 344-3019 or by e-mail at hopkinca@mail.armstrong.edu.

Manuscript Collection

Lane Library acquired and, during the Spring of 2002, processed and described in a finding aid the Frank W. and Lillian Spencer Collection. The Library's first manuscript collection, the Spencer Papers are currently housed with the University Archives. Use of the manuscript collections must follow the Policies and Procedures for Use of the University Archives.

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