Students working with primary source materials in the Special Collections reading room.

Explore our collections

The Libraries are home to a wealth of physical and digital materials. Using our Library Search discovery tool you can identify most of the materials in the Libraries' main collection of books, journals, maps, videos, along with a growing number of distinctive and digital collections. The Libraries also offers lendable technology such as VR equipment, and anatomical models for checkout.

Student checking out a skull from the anatomical models collection.

Help us build our collections

Have a suggestion for something that we should add to the collections? We welcome purchase recommendations or requests from the University community for books, media, journals or electronic resources.

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Now on exhibit

“New Acquisitions, 2020-2025” exhibits selections from the hundreds of collections, books, and periodicals acquired by Special Collections and University Archives since the start of 2020, encompassing a variety of subjects from University history to the campaign to save the Mapes Hotel, presented in photographs, documents, videos, and more. This exhibit illustrates the range of SCUA’s collection scope in contents, format, and age: SCUA truly has something for everyone.

Visit the exhibit at SCUA on the KC 3rd floor
Workmen in lined tunnel with temporary rails, 1905. Photographer Walter J. Lubken. William E. Swift, Sr. Truckee Canal Construction Collection, NC1446.