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Spanish Language & Hispanic Studies

A resource guide for faculty and students in the Spanish Section of the Department of World Languages & Cultures at BGSU.

Browne Popular Culture Library

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use.

Collection strengths

Popular Fiction

Popular fiction predominates our collection, particularly novels in the romancemystery-detectivescience fiction-fantasy, and western genres. The Library also contains extensive collections of late 19th- and 20th-century juvenile/young adult series fiction.

Popular Entertainment

The Browne Popular Culture Library houses thousands of primary works relating to all kinds of popular entertainment, with particular strengths in materials documenting mass media: television, motion pictures, and radio.

Graphic Arts

The Browne Popular Culture Library has numerous items representing graphic elements such as: one of the largest comic collection in the U.S., a large collection of graphic novels, tens of thousands of book covers, calendars, trading cards, posters, etc.

Materials of note:

  • Graphic novels
  • Vintage and Mass market genre fiction written in or translated to Spanish
  • Mexican Lobby Cards - small posters that marketed films that were either produced in Mexico and/or Puerto Rico or produced in the United States and released in Mexico or Puerto Rico