Special Collections will re-open on February 16, 2010. Come visit us then in our new home on the sixth floor of Wilson Library. Thank you for your patience!

Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections collects, organizes, describes, preserves, and maintains unique intellectual and cultural heritage materials and promotes the use of these resources by the University community, scholars, and the public. Our goal is to advance scholarship and further the educational, research, and service missions of the university.

Collection Highlights

Finding Aids for Archival Collections
Oral History Program

Campus History Collection
Masters Thesis Archive
Mathes Reading Figurines
Northwest Collection
Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection
Rare Book Collection
Special Collections Children's Collection
Western Collection

Special Collections Online

The Campus School at Western
20th Century Children's Authors
Women in Sport at Western
Mathes Reading Figurines Collection
Student Newspapers Historical Collection Sample
Digital Collections

Western History Highlights

Brief History of WWU
Building Histories
Western Profiles
The True University: a History of the WWU Library 1899-1998