"It's probably the largest role-playing game collection anywhere," said Will Hansen, an assistant curator of collections at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library."

Hmmm...

Funny, mostly common items.  I may have just as much stuff in my "to sell someday pile" than this collection  

Actually, I see some solid (value) items like CoC, RuneQuest, Role Aids folders, Companions, Midkemia, Entertainment Concepts, and there is probably more.

A stack of woodgrains?  No.  But it is a solid collection.  We know it's not the biggest anywhere, but still something.

TheHistorian wrote:Actually, I see some solid (value) items like CoC, RuneQuest, Role Aids folders, Companions, Midkemia, Entertainment Concepts, and there is probably more.

First thing I noticed were the MERP items.  Some real good ones in there.

Normal "Joe Public" they are talking about.. and largest collection at a Libary.. although  what was that other one "The whatever"? has some good stuff.. Mark?

Brette:)

Mars wrote:Haven't gone through the whole list but it doesn't look like there are any new small press titles in there.

Just looking through it quickly and there is some Ragnarok Ent. items (for Ysgarth) and Islandia Campaign too.
I noticed the 1st ed. of Element Masters as well.

There is certainly some nice items in there, but perhaps nothing very rare.

I remember my first trip to an RPG library, the Merrill collection here in Toronto... I thought it was very neat to be able to retrieve Castle Greyhawk & give it a read (no 'borrowing' allowed of course )... then my daughter & I read the Robert Munsch kiddie books for a bit before going for ice cream, fun times    I like the idea of donating a collection when one's done... I have to figure that one out.

By the way, I don't notice the donors on our membership roster, do we know them?

In France, we have the Ludothèque of Boulogne Billancourt with the National Center of Games (Centre National du Jeu). Someone (IIRC it is Didier Guiserix, who started the French mag "Casus Belli" with François Marcela-Froideval before FMF joined TSR) donated his whole collection to this library. But sadly, this is not open to the public....

my guess is home campaign notes, character sheets etc

Brette:)