From open access books found on Google and Hathitrust to home grown journals and Rare books, you will 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 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 Centric (old and new) as well as visual arts resources (some require psu access id).
This archive consists of all Penn State electronic theses and dissertations since 2000, including Penn State Schreyer Honors College electronic honors theses submitted since Fall 2009.
Consisting mainly of correspondence, this collection also includes advertisements, images, catalogs, and reviews from the corporate archives of Transaction Publishers.
Although there is an international flair to these collections, one of our collecting strengths is in Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Frakturs as well as unique Civil War era documents.
Sit back, watch and listen. These collections range in topics and content. Learn about the Civil Rights through the Jack Rabin collection. Listen to Fred Waring's orchestra. Or, watch a streaming video from a range of subjects. Check this site often as content increases regularly.
La Vie, the Penn State University annual student yearbook, has been in production documenting student life continuously since 1890. Look up past alumni or find your friends and relatives!
From Pennsylvania Geological Survey maps, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps to an interactive 1861 map of Centre County, go to the digital map drawer to find out where you are.
These collections are content based, providing access to a diverse range of documents on topics such as agriculture, forestry, Civil War, 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. Here you will find a wide date range and can search across the newspapers find specific articles. Read about past alum in the Penn State Daily Collegian!
