Special Collections

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Special Collections supports scholarly research, enhances teaching, and preserves USF and Florida history through a series of deep University and community partnerships. To advance this mission, Special Collections:

• Engages researchers and encourages immersion with nontraditional and often rare resources through classroom, exhibit, and storage facilities.
• Establishes and promotes strong community partnerships organized around local and regional history, environmental history, and cultural resources and heritage.
• Acquires and makes available for use materials of enduring research value in — Florida studies, USF university archives, Environmental studies, LGBTQ+ studies, Journalism, Children’s and young adult literature, and Civil Rights.

View our consolidated collection development guidelines. View our guide for copyright and terms of use: lib.usf.edu/copyright/

Use the options on the right to explore campus specific Special Collections and to make appointments to access materials and services.