In 2000, on the hundredth publication anniversary of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The International Wizard of Oz Club established a small office in San Francisco to house the Club’s collections. With that space available we were able to secure appropriate insurance for the collections and to house them in a secure, Class A building.
The office provides the space to hold the collections to date, with space for modest future growth, and work space to facilitate the work of volunteer archivists and cataloguers. The fragility and rarity of much of the collection precludes general access, but the Club responds to specific research inquiries and contributes digital images from the collection to The Baum Bugle and other publications for stated fees.
In addition, the Club lends items to accredited museums and libraries for exhibition, following standard museum and rare-book-and-manuscript-library policies and guidelines.
