Welcome

The McCormick Library houses more than 225,000 of Northwestern University Library's most unusual and outstanding items and collections. The span of time and material types represented ranges from four-thousand year old Mesopotamian clay tablets to 19th century cobweb paintings to the most recent issues of feminist journals from around the world.


Formats Collected Include:

  • Rare books and periodicals
  • Manuscripts and archives
  • Sound recordings
  • Photographs
  • Video/film
  • Posters
  • Prints
  • Realia

special.collections@northwestern.edu

Last updated: September 23, 2007