In two recent exhibits at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, we made the decision to try to increase the level of access to both the objects and their explanatory texts, for patrons who suffer from dyslexia. One of our then-student workers, herself dyslexic, proposed to library administration that our exhibits would be more welcoming if we had a way to provide for dyslexics and ease their exhibit experience. We agreed that this was an excellent idea and, in fact, kicked ourselves for not having thought of it earlier. We present this small summary of our experience in order that other institutions might see it as a useful case study for adapting their own exhibits or public programming to meet the needs of dyslexic patrons and visitors.

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Performing research in fan studies, or any other discipline, is difficult if not impossible without access to documentary collections of primary historical documents, including manuscript material, fannish creations such as fanzines, fanvids and filksongs, correspondence, and ephemera. There are a number of institutions across the world that hold these sorts of collections, and here we provide information about a selected few of those open to scholarly research.

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