Inside the Milberg Gallery: Cotsen Children's Library

Das Belagerungs-Spiel. Le jeu de siège. The game of siege. Germany, 1830?
This series highlights collections included in the inaugural exhibition, "Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-2018," now open through June 23 (daily, noon to 6 p.m.) in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery. To follow is a note from Andrea Immel, Curator of the Cotsen Children's Library:
Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950 and Charter Trustee Emeritus, is among Princeton University Library's Special Collections' most generous and far-sighted donors. He gave more than a superb collection of historical illustrated children's books in 1994; he endowed the vision of a space in Firestone Library that would be as welcoming to families as to scholars. Its public gallery offers children's programming to instill a lifelong love of reading; its stacks and contents ignite the curiosity about childhood in Princeton undergraduates, doctoral students, faculty, and scholars from around the world.

My Soldier ABC. London: Renwick of Ottley, ca. 1917
Innovative outreach programming makes these materials available to K-8 teachers and the curatorial blog interprets them for online readers. All Cotsen's diverse visitors benefit in different ways from the donor's dream for a unique rare book collection in the Princeton University Library.
Note: The Welcome Additions exhibition is featured online at dpul.princeton.edu.
Media contact: Barbara Valenza, Library Communications Manager
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