J. LLOYD EATON COLLECTION

J. LLOYD EATON COLLECTION
   In 1969 the late Donald Wilson, University Librarian at the University of California, Riverside Library (now the Tomas Rivera Library), purchased a COLLECTION of 7500 volumes of sf and fantasy from the estate of J. Lloyd Eaton MD. Eaton had for several decades collected many rare and unusual monographs of sf, including such items as Varney the Vampire (1847) and Frank AUBREY's King of the Dead (1903), ceasing his active interest in thefield about 1956. For the first decade after its purchase, the collection remained in storage, uncatalogued and inaccessible to researchers. In 1978 Robert REGINALD and George Edgar SLUSSER successfully proposed an annualconference centred on the Eaton Collection, and in 1979 Slusser was appointed Curator. Simultaneously the Rivera Library began actively cataloguing the newer parts of the collection, while making retrospective purchases of missing items and adding current materials. Cataloguing of the old books was completed with a federal grant in the late 1980s; unfortunately, the Dictionary Catalog of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, University of California,Riverside (3 vols 1982) was compiled long before the task had been completed.The collection now includes 100,000+ items, having been supplemented with the acquisition of the Douglas MENVILLE collection (10,000 paperbacks and esoterica), the Terry CARR collection (20,000FANZINES), the Rick Sneary (1927-1990) collection (40,000 fanzines) and the manuscripts of several contemporary sf writers, plus 10,000 superhero COMICS, 10,000 boys' books, 500 shooting scripts of sf and fantasy films,the Michael CASSUTT collection of screenplays and teleplays, and some foreign-language material. Access to this, the largest academic library collection of fantastic literature, is available to legitimate scholars and to members of the university community.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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