{"id":9,"date":"2019-07-17T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2024-10-09T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:04:49","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Children&#8217;s Literature Resources<\/h2>\n<p>The School (S)-Collection in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign consists of over 200,000 volumes of children&#8217;s and young adult literature. The collection was created in 1941 with an initial collection of approximately 3,000 titles. In 1993, the S-Collection acquired an uncatalogued collection of 58,000 children&#8217;s books from the Center for Research Libraries, which were subsequently added to the collection. With this addition, it became one of the most comprehensive collections of children&#8217;s literature in the nation, second only to the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Originally created as a working collection for students in education or library and information science, the collection now supports doctoral and historical research as well.<\/p>\n<div class =\"flower\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/findbks\/\">Find Children&#8217;s Books<\/a><br \/>\nBibliographies and guides for finding books by topic, age group, or genre.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/research\/\">Research Children&#8217;s Literature<\/a><br \/>\nResources for researching the history, development, analysis, and review of children&#8217;s and young adult literature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/addlresources\/\">Additional Resources<\/a><br \/>\nGeneral information about the S-Collection, answers to FAQs, maps of SSHEL, links to public libraries, and S-Collection site map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s Literature Resources The School (S)-Collection in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign consists of over 200,000 volumes of children&#8217;s and young adult literature. The collection was created in 1941 with an initial collection of approximately 3,000 titles. In 1993, the S-Collection acquired an uncatalogued collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/s-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}