Corey Seeman has made it a hobby for years to collect miniature toy figurines. Now his office is teeming with bobble-heads, familiar movie and cartoon characters, miniature dogs, cars and cups.

Seeman is the director at the Kresge Business Administration Library, but his office in the library could be mistaken for a preschool principal’s office or even that of a pediatrician.

In addition to a desk and a swirling office chair, his office walls are lined with three main shelves, filled to the brim with figurines and toys. Seeman says a librarian is a collector by nature and that it took him years to gather the toys and trinkets.

One day at work, he looks over his collection and picks out the silver elephant figurine his parents got for him when they were on vacation many years ago. “There is a difference between a collector and a hoarder and I’m definitely the former,” he says while fondly holding the palm-size elephant.

In his office there are smaller shelves and a couple of boxes of toys on the other side of the room still waiting to go up. “My boys made these shelves for me and I’m working on adding on to them,” he says.

There are popular cartoon toys from “Toy Story” to Pokémon, a random red martini shaker and reused journal holders filled with plush toys. “Most of them are Happy Meal toys, but there is other stuff too,” Seeman says.

Seeman says he got the idea to display the toys when he was working at the University of Toledo. It initially started as a decoration idea and a way to add color to the office. “There really is no rhyme or reason behind how it started,” he says. “I had some space by the windows in my office and I had been collecting for a while, so I decided to put it up.”

Although his sons have grown up and do not eat Happy Meals anymore, Seeman still finds ways to get toys. He loves most souvenirs from students he works with as part of the Ross School’s MultiDisciplinary Action Projects, in which each team is assigned a Kresge librarian.

Seeman’s family also shares his enthusiasm for his hobby. Seeman’s mom contributes to her son’s collection and his sister-in-law sends her young children’s toys to Seeman instead of throwing them out. “My family is supportive as long as the collection stays in the office,” he says.

Seeman thinks his fascination with collecting toys and trinkets may be an extension of his job responsibilities as a librarian. “Librarians are fairly conservative and we have a hard time letting things go. This helps build really amazing collections for our libraries.”

Seeman has been the director at Kresge library since October 2006 and is responsible for administering the services and collections at Kresge. “We’re an independent library and we work primarily with students and faculty at the Ross School of Business,” he says.

As Seeman looks over at his overflowing collection, he says it has been fun collecting these items over the years. “Now, I just need more shelves.”