Youth Services News Article: The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls - Smithsonian Magazine

[Ami Jones]

My predecessor was obsessed with the dolls and had tea parties, etc., multiple copies of each book. I can't get the books to check out now and they are slowly being weeded (many of the original series, in fact, are now out of print.) If I had one donated, I might put it in a learning kit for that time period, but otherwise I don't think it would circulate alone.
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Once upon a time before I started working here, they apparently did a huge American Girl event with  doll(s?) giveaway and all manner of things. I don’t think we ever had dolls to give away, and I find myself weeding the books we have as they are just almost never checked out.



I can’t see loaning out dolls. It’s enough that I’m going to have to start remembering to take the stuffed animals home to launder again, now that we’re allowing a few out into the library.



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Subject: Youth Services News Article: The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls - Smithsonian Magazine



Good article.

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Personally, I'm a little too old for American Girl dolls (so sad), but daughter is not (she's 20). She has many (OK, they're probably partly mine, too).



Question of curiosity - does anyone have a doll or dolls for checkout? The article mentions that there are some libraries that do. When I worked at the NHCC, we had the whole Josefina collection (doll, books, furniture, accessories) in the archives. It was donated by Dr. Nunn who had been on the advisory committee for the doll. We never loaned it out while I was there.







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