Interior of Smith Rare Book Room
List of Book Collections:
Bibles and Encyclopedias
Golden Cockerel Press Collection
H. M. Marvin Collection on Bruce Rogers
James H. Hall Collection on Thomas Wolfe
Samuel M. Lindsay Collection on Robert Burns
Wilbur L. Fugate Collection of 100 First Editions
William Patterson Cumming Map Collection
General Collection
Donations
Location of the Smith Rare Book Room
Hours / Access
For more information, please contact:
Jill Gremmels
Director of the Library
telephone: 704-894-2160
fax: 704-894-2625
e-mail: jigremmels@davidson.edu
Kim E. Sanderson
Special Collections Coordinator
telephone: 704-894-2150
fax: 704-894-2625
e-mail: kisanderson@davidson.edu
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The Smith
Rare Book Room
The second floor of the E.H. Little Library at Davidson
College houses the Smith Rare Book Room, an elegant room filled with
handsome furniture, beautiful rugs and the library's unique, rare, and
unusual book collections. C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. provided funds for the
decoration and dedication of the original Smith Rare Book Room in Grey
Memorial Library. The same name was given to E. H. Little Library's rare
book room in grateful recognition of the continued interest, support and
devotion Davidson College has received from the Smith family.
As the permanent repository of all rare books belonging to Davidson
College, the Smith Rare Book Room contains those books, which because of
physical condition or rarity, require additional security. Both the bookcases
and the room are kept locked and the permission of a librarian is required
for admittance into the room. Access to the collections is available by
contacting a reference librarian and arranging a time to visit the room.
More than one thousand books are located in the Smith Rare Book Room.
All books in the room are listed in the Library Catalog. The room includes non-circulating
materials, which differ from the library's main circulation collections
because of their unique nature or value. Books are available for use by
visiting scholars and the general public, as well as Davidson's faculty,
staff, and students.
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