Find Rare or Archival Documents

When looking for rare or archival documents, start with the Library Catalog.

• GIL - KSU's Library Catalog
  The catalog lists all items held by the Sturgis Library, TRAC, and the Music Library. The catalog also includes electronic books, including the Early English Books Online collection.

Rare and archival material is often gathered together in certain locations. In the Sturgis Library, those places are

• Bentley Rare Book Gallery
  The Bentley Rare Book Gallery contains several thousand rare and original items with worldwide scope. In addition, there are a number of collections of private papers and other material of local history interest.
• University Archives
  The University Archives has a wide variety of materials pertaining to the history, growth, and development of Kennesaw State University.

The Sturgis Library has access to several databases that provide fulltext reproductions of rare items.

• Early English Books Online
  Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
• American Periodical Series
  Contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
• New York Times Historical
  The New York Times Historical offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2003.
• GALILEO: Georgia Culture and History
  GALILEO's Georgia Culture and History contains a listing of databases of interest to people interested in rare or archival material.