Libraries and Library Collections
1. Givens Collection of African American Literature
   Approximately 8,000 items on the subjects of American literature, biography, social science, art, notes, manuscripts, and inscriptions. Most of the collection are fictional works or work that pertain to them, including novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, literary criticism, periodicals, and biographies of writers dating from the late-18th century to the present and covering such literary periods as the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. The collection also includes a lesser but still significant number of nonfiction and scholarly titles relating to African American art, education, social sciences, sports, and entertainment. Archival material documenting the history of black literature makes up the remainder of the section.
   
2. Hmong Cultural Center's Resource Library Features nearly 300 Hmong-related books. The collection includes Hmong language publications, English language materials pertaining to the Hmong, bilingual children's storybooks written in both nglish and Hmong as well as PhD Dissertations. The Resource Library also possesses extensive indexed collections of Hmong-related academic and newspaper articles, along with some visual displays of Hmong cultural artifacts.
   
3. Minneapolis Public Library Special Collections Department
   Huttner Abolition and Anti-Slavery Collection
   Nearly 900 books, pamphlets, broadsides, photographs, and letters by and about abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass.
   North American Indians Collection
   Contains copies of many of the important early books that describe and illustrate Indians of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Significant works by such authors as Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, George Catlin, and Edward S. Curtis are included.
4. Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center Library
   The MIWRC Library, established in 1984, includes holdings of over 10,000 books, research papers, articles, pamphlets, periodicals, and audio-visual materials. The role of the library is to acquire materials not only on American Indian Women and Chemical Dependency, but also on related topics, including: Women's Health; Parenting; Local Indian History and Culture; Battering and Sexual Abuse; Mental Health and Treatment; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Publications by and about Indian Women.
   
5. Quatrefoil Library
   Collection of materials and information relevant to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and other sexual minority communities. Includes non-circulating periodicals, as well as circulating books, videos, and sound recordings.
   
6. Resource Center of the Americas' Penny Lernoux Library
   The library owns over 10,000 books, curricula, periodicals, lesson plans and documentary videos about the countries, peoples and issues of North and South America.
   
7. University of Minnesota's Ames Library of South Asia
   Over 25,000 titles, including manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings, immediately established the University as having one of the pre-eminent libraries for the study of South Asia in the western world.
   
8. University of Minnesota's East Asian Library
   More than 110,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.