University of South Carolina Libraries - Rare Books and Special Collections

Selected References

In addition to the items referenced below, articles on a variety of specific volumes and collections have appeared in recent years in the library's magazine Ex Libris, the newsletter Reflections and other campus media, such book-collecting magazines as Biblio, Manuscripts, and AB Bookman's Weekly, and the annualDLB Yearbook. Exhibit catalogues and web-exhibits on specific collections are listed under the Rare Books web-page (www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/ rarebook.html). Further links on South Carolina library history are provided at www.libsci.sc.edu/histories/index.html.

Branscomb, Lewis, "The New Library of the University of South Carolina," Library Journal (July, 1943), 554-556 (and plans, LJ, September 1943, p. 679).
Bryan, John M., An Architectural History of the South Carolina College, 1801-1855(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1976), esp. pp. 84-95.
____________, "The Mills legacy confirmed," Carolina Alumni Quarterly(February, 1982), 15- 18.
Edgar, Walter, Remembering the Days, An Illustrated History of the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: R.L.Bryan Company for the Institute for Southern Studies, 1982).
English, Elizabeth Doby; Robert M. Kennedy, ed., Caroliniana in the Library of the University of South Carolina (Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, no. 134)(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, December 1923).
___________________, comp., Special Collections in the McKissick Memorial Library, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: n.p., 1952).
Fulmer, Henry, "Richard T. Greener and the Radical University Library," Ex Libris, no. 2 (1996), 34-37.
Gee, Wilson, "John Drayton," in his South Carolina Botanists: Biography and Bibliography (Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, no. 72) (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, September 1918), 23-28.
Geer, Gary, "Telling Stories: the Francis Lord Civil War Collection," Ex Libris, no. 3 (1997), 6-9.
Green, Edwin L., Yates Snowden and others, Library (Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, VII) (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, October 1906).
_____________, A History of the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: the State Company, 1916).
Greiner, Donald J., T.H.Howard-Hill, and others, Report of the Select Committee on Library Provision for Excellence in Graduate Education and Research in the 1990s(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Graduate Council, 1985).
--esp. "Collection Development: Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts" (pp.33-88).
Hennig, Helen Kohn, ed., Columbia, Capital City of South Carolina, with a mid-century supplement by Charles E. Lee (Columbia, SC: State-Record Company, 1966).
--esp. Edwin L. Green, "Higher Education" (pp. 88-100); Margaret Babcock Meriwether, "Literature and the theater" (pp. 192-225).
Hollis, Daniel Walker, University of South Carolina [The Sesquicentennial History], vol. I: South Carolina College; vol. II: College to University (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951, 1956).
[Johnston, Edward W.], Catalogue of the Library of the South Carolina College(Columbia, SC: the Telescope, 1836).
La Borde, Maximilian, History of South Carolina College from its incorporation(Columbia, SC: Peter B. Glass, 1859; 2nd ed, to 1865, Charleston: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1874).
Lipscomb, Terry W., "In Search of the Charles Pinckney Library," Ex Libris, no. 5 (1999), 2-7.
M: commemorating the acquisition of the one millionth volume by the University of South Carolina Libraries (n.p.: n.p., [1971]).
[? McMaster, Fitz W.], Catalogue of the Library of the South Carolina College(Columbia, SC: A.S. Johnston,1849).
Malone, Dumas, The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1926).
Maxcy, Jonathan, A Course of Historical & Miscellaneous reading Drawn Up for the Use of the Students of the South Carolina College (Columbia, SC: at the Telescope Office, 1816).
--an extensive reading list based on the books then in the College library.
Meriwether, Margaret Babcock, ed. and intro., The Carolinian Florist of Governor John Drayton of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: South Caroliniana Library, 1943).
Moore, John Hammond, Columbia & Richland County, A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993).
___________________, "Catalogue of the Library of the South Carolina College, 1849," Ex Libris, no. 5 (1999), 37-39.
Ridge, Davy-Jo Stribling, ed., Rare Book Collection in the McKissick Memorial Library, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: McKissick Memorial Library, 1966).
____________________, A load of gratitude: Audubon and South Carolina(Columbia, SC: Thomas Cooper Library, 1985).
Scott, Patrick, "Two Antebellum South Carolinians in Edinburgh," University of Edinburgh Journal, 30 (1981), 48-51.
___________, "Jonathan Maxcy and the Aims of Early Nineteenth-Century Rhetorical Teaching, College English, 45:1 (January 1983), 21-29.
___________, "From Rhetoric to English: Nineteenth Century English Teaching at South Carolina College," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 85:3 (July 1984), 233-243.
___________, "The Philological Generation Reconsidered: College English Teaching at South Carolina, 1880-1920," Postscript, 2 (1985), 75-85.
___________, A Discourse Commemorative of William Campbell Preston, Ll.D.(Columbia, SC: n.p., 1996).
___________, "Two Hundred Years of Rare Books and Literary Collections at the University of South Carolina," Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2000 (Detroit: The Gate Group, 2001), 281-292.
Stokes, Allen H., A Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the South Caroliniana Library, with a preface and introduction by E.L. Inabinet (Columbia, SC: South Caroliniana Library, 1982).
_____________, "Governor John Drayton: USC Founder and Benefactor," Ex Libris, no. 3 (1996-7), 19-21.
Washington, Nancy H, ed., Ex Libris, nos. 1-6 (Columbia, SC: USC Libraries, 1994-2000).

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