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About Broward County Library's Digital Collections
This server is home to the digital collections of Broward County Library (BCL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. BCL has two locations where important and exciting special collections are held:
- The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) is a general-service library, as well as a research facility and cultural center containing more than 75,000 books and related materials that focus on the experiences of people of African descent.
- The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, located on the sixth floor of the Main Library in downtown Fort Lauderdale, offers a collection of more than 12,000 items, including special collections, rare books and reference material.
BCL began digitizing its special collections in January, 2007, beginning with the Alex Haley collection. We are adding new online collections every month; check back frequently to explore the treasures of Broward County Library! To get started, scroll down and click on the screen of the collection you wish to explore.
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2006 Florida Artists' Book Prize: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog
The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book present the tenth annual Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition in this e-catalog. All of the books selected for the exhibition are shown here in their entirety, and a few of them are even shown using moving images. |
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2007 Florida Artists' Book Prize: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog
The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book and the Florida Center for the Book present the eleventh annual Florida Artists’ Book Prize exhibition in this e-catalog. All of the books selected for the exhibition are shown here in their entirety, and a few of them are even shown using moving images. |
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Alex Haley Collection: The Voyages of Alex Haley, Notebooks and Memoirs of an African-American Writer
The Alex Haley Collection at AARLCC includes eight typed, unfinished manuscripts, including drafts and handwritten notes. It also includes large amounts of correspondence between Haley and aspiring writers such as Tom Feelings, students of all ages, friends, peers such as Danielle Steele, politicians, and noted celebrities such as Quincy Jones, Johnny Carson. |
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Bienes Museum of the Modern Book: The Publications
Exhibition catalogs and other publications from the first ten years of the Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library. |
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Civilian Conservation Corps Collection: The CCC, A Young Man's Opportunity to Work
The Bienes Museum 's CCC collection includes books, pamphlets, posters, banners, clothing, memory books, newspapers and newsletters, certificates, games, matchbook covers, menus, patches, pillow cases, posters, and postcards. |
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Fontaneda Society, Book Collectors of South Florida Members' Exhibition, January 17-March 14, 2008
The Fontaneda Society serves the interests of booklovers through studies in book collecting, fine printing and related graphic arts, and more. Highlighted in this exhibition are selected items from a variety of collection subject areas including 19th century cookbooks, Frank Lloyd Wright books, books on jazz discography, and many others. |
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Pop-Ups And Other Illustrated Books, Ephemera, and Graphic Designs of Vojtêch Kubašta (1914-1992)
From the Collection of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book. |
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Series Americana: An Exhibition
of Selected
Post Depression-Era
Regional Literature
from the Collection of
Carol Fitzgerald
A Selected Exhibition from the Collection of Carol Fitzgerald, October 25, 2007-January 8, 2008. |
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So This Is Florida: An Exhibition
of Decorative Book Bindings and Book Jackets, 1873-1999
Seventy Floridiana books and pamphlets from the collections of Broward County Main Library’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, chronicling the evolution of American book design and publishing from the 1873 to 1999. |
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