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Charles Deering McCormick Library
of Special Collections and University Archives
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The McCormick Library collection is home to the Libraries’ rarest materials, including manuscripts, archives, prints, artifacts and all materials pertaining to Northwestern's history. Particular strengths include The Long 60s, social and political history, avant-garde artistic movements and women’s history and political movements.
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We are available for research, reference, consultation and instruction to support the exploration and use of our collections. Librarians are available to partner with instructors to use archival and special collections materials in their classes.
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University Library, Lower Level
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Use of McCormick collections requires an appointment. Available this quarter:
Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–4:30 PM
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The McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives is home to many of the Libraries' rarest materials, including manuscripts, archives, prints, artifacts and all materials pertaining to Northwestern's history. The McCormick Library's holdings are non-circulating and are open to the public for research and reference.
Special collections include rare printed books from incunabula to contemporary artists books, medieval manuscripts, archival collections, broadsides, prints, photographs, artifacts and ephemera. Special collections also hold important archival collections of literary and historical figures such as African American tragedian Ira Aldridge, Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Charlotte Moorman and Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick.
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