Special collections of children's books in the library
Ivan Tait's Sports Carnival Ivanhoe, Victoria, c.1908 from the Frederick Morgan Collection
- The Frederick Morgan Collection of Children's Books comprising mainly English works published before 1940 donated by Frederick Morgan in 1954. Some background to acquisition of the Collection here.
- The Public School Fiction Collection, about 2000 volumes of children's fiction, magazines and annuals of stories set in British public schools. Some highlights from the Collection here.
- Children's fiction books in the Ian McLaren Collection.
These collections are fully catalogued online. Material may be accessed through the Cultural Collections Reading Room, 3rd floor, in the Baillieu Library.