Featured pick for this month, care of University Archivist, Jackie Esposito, is The University Curriculum Archive. All Penn State course proposals created since 1970 can now be retrieved online thanks to a new service provided by the Penn State University Archives in collaboration with the University Faculty Senate and Information Technology Services.
Read more about the collection in the PSU Live press release!
The University Libraries' Digitized Collections, close to 100 in all, cover a wide range of subject areas, including agriculture, the Civil War era, geology and geography of Pennsylvania, labor history, Pennsylvania history, Penn State history, and political protest. Many of these collections were digitized from holdings in the Special Collections Library.
Does not include newspapers, theses or dissertations, journals, or items from Google Books and HathiTrust.
Browse the list of digitized collections, organized alphabetically by title, by clicking on the "A-Z" graphic below.
From open access books found on Google and Hathitrust to home grown journals and Rare books, you will find a diverse selection of resources here. Pennsylvania perspectives make up the major collecting area as well as prominent areas of Penn State research.
These collections highlight selections from past exhibits, offering a glimpse of the treasures available for research, teaching and learning in the Special Collections library at Penn State University Park.
The digitized Collections include the University Curriculum Archive as well as indexes for searching obituaries in the Centre Daily Times, abandoned mine maps of Pennsylvania, and materials related to the Three Mile Island (TMI-2) Recovery and Decontamination Collection.
These journals are all open access. You will find many distinguished resources on Pennsylvania history, Wildlife, Women in Engineering, and Healthcare and Humanities.
These collections range from Penn State photos (historic and contemporary) as well as visual arts resources (some require Penn State web access ID).
Includes electronic theses and dissertations since 2000; electronic honors theses from fall 2009; and entries, such as posters, from the Graduate Research Exhibition and the Undergraduate Exhibition.
This correspondence collection is a digitized portion of the Irving L. Horowitz Transactions Publisher Archives.
These collections have an international flair as well as contain materials on the culture and history of Pennsylvania, such as the Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Frakturs as well as unique Civil War era documents.
Sit back, watch and listen. These collections range in a variety of topics and content. Learn about the Civil Rights Movement through the Jack Rabin collection. Listen to Fred Waring's orchestra. Or, watch a streaming video on a range of subjects.
La Vie, the Penn State University annual student yearbook, has been in production documenting student life continuously since 1890. Look up past clubs, fraternities and events as well as find alumni, old friends and relatives!
From Pennsylvania Geological Survey maps, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, to our interactive 1861 map of Centre County . . . pull out the Digital Map Drawer to find any location!
These themed collections provide access to a diverse range of materials on topics such as Agriculture, Forestry, The Civil War, The Eighth Air Force, and Penn State History.
Pennsylvania newspapers from the Civil War Era news to Collegiate papers provide a glimpse of daily life and the concerns of the time. Read about past alum in the Penn State Daily Collegian! You will find a broad date range and searching across the newspapers to find specific articles is easy. The newspapers are a great way to research past events and people.
