Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library. Brian Flota and Kate Morris, eds. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2023. 305p. Softcover, $82.00 ($73.80 ALA members) (ISBN: 978-0-8389-3950-5).

Abstract

As comic books and their associated media continue to dominate popular culture, many libraries are exploring the idea of collecting them or thinking of new ways to use the comic books they have as aids to instruction and research and to draw more students into the library. The editors of this new work have collected essays covering many different aspects of the comics in the library question. In 20 chapters over 4 sections, the reader learns why a library should collect comics material, what to do with it once it arrives, and how to use it in library instruction and as a research tool.