Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) Summer Reading Program Collection
Scope and Contents
Contains original artwork, process art, and completed posters and marketing material by illustrators who created materials for MELSA's annual summer reading program. Includes work by Nancy Carlson, Steven Kellogg, Stephen Gammell, James Marshall, Marc Brown, Ann Jonas, Jerry Pinkney, Bruce Degen, Dennis Cazet, Trina Schart Hyman, Patricia Polacco, Dav Pilkey, Janet Stevens, Keiko Kasza, Lane Smith, Peggy Rathmann, Betsy Bowen, Debra Frasier, and David Small.
Dates
- 1986 - 2008
Creator
- Metropolitan Library Service Agency (Minn.) (Organization)
- Gammell, Stephen (Illustrator, Person)
- Hyman, Trina Schart (Illustrator, Person)
- Marshall, James, 1942-1992 (Illustrator, Person)
- Pinkney, Jerry (Illustrator, Person)
- Polacco, Patricia (Illustrator, Person)
- Smith, Lane (Illustrator, Person)
- Brown, Marc Tolon (Illustrator, Person)
- Carlson, Nancy L. (Illustrator, Person)
- Degen, Bruce (Illustrator, Person)
- Jonas, Ann (Illustrator, Person)
- Cazet, Denys (Illustrator, Person)
- Kasza, Keiko (Illustrator, Person)
- Kellogg, Steven (Illustrator, Person)
- Pilkey, Dav, 1966- (Illustrator, Person)
- Rathmann, Peggy (Illustrator, Person)
- Small, David, 1945- (Illustrator, Person)
- Stevens, Janet (Illustrator, Person)
- Chrustowski, Rick (Illustrator, Person)
- Anderson, Derek, 1969- (Illustrator, Person)
- Frasier, Debra (Illustrator, Person)
- Bowen, Betsy (Illustrator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is an alliance of the libraries from seven counties in the Twin Cities metro area. They provide coordination for events, programs, and work actively in the Summer Reading Program.
Extent
3.1 Cubic Feet (6 boxes (2 hollinger boxes, 4 flat boxes))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains original artwork as well as posters, bookmarks, and other marketing material created by notable children's artists for MELSA's annual summer reading program.
Arrangement
Collection guide is arranged alphabetically by illustrator.
Accession Information
Gift of the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (St. Paul, MN).
- Children -- Books and reading Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Drawings (visual works) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Illustrators -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mixed media works Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Oil paintings (visual works) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Public libraries -- Activity programs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Summer reading programs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- collages (visual works) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- paintings (visual works) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- watercolors (paintings) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) Summer Reading Program Collection, 1986-2008
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Caitlin Marineau
- Date
- 7/28/2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- June 2020: Description updated by Caitlin Marineau.
- December 2022: New material added (box 6) and description updated by Caitlin Marineau.
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Children's Literature Research Collections Collecting Area
