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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER

Enter search term(s) to locate University Archives and Manuscript collection guides, Special Collections' online exhibits, and other NCSU Libraries web pages.

Most of the University Archives and Manuscripts Unit collection guides (?) are full-text searchable. The actual materials within the collections are not, however.

Rare books can be located through the NCSU Libraries' main catalog.

Please contact us for assistance locating materials in our collections.

About the collection guides

The Special Collections Research Center contains over 13,000 linear feet of original materials as well as some 250,000 photographic images documenting the history of NCSU, the history of science, entomology, architecture and design, engineering, and a host of other subject areas.

The staff of the Research Center have created finding aids for many of these collections, an increasing number of which are marked up in the evolving national and international standard for sharing information electronically about the contents of such collections, EAD (Encoded Archival Description).

Finding aids are descriptive tools that identify, describe, and list the contents of collections of materials which are not individually cataloged. Typically, these guides do not describe individual items in the collection being described, but rather describe groupings of materials such as the contents of a folder, a box, etc. as well as the organizational context in which these materials are stored, which also provide a great deal of information about the conditions or circumstances under which the contents were created.