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Trent University Archives is currently in the midst of moving our finding aids to a new platform. During this time, we recommend that you conduct searches in both of our old and new interfaces to make sure you find all of the items relevant to your research.
The Archives has responsibility for Special Collections and Rare Books as well as for historical manuscripts. See the Special Collections policy mandate.
The Collection currently consists of over 13,000 items and they are catalogued in Omni, the Bata Library online catalogue. These materials do not circulate but are retrieved by staff from closed stacks for consultation in the Northway Reading Room or in the Michael Treadwell Rare Books and Special Collections Room.
Special Collections: Overview
Other Resources and Services
There are other important literary collections interspersed throughout Special Collections, including Melville and Twain editions from the library of the late Professor Gordon Roper.
The Archives also maintains all theses written by Trent students in the graduate programs and selected fourth-year honours programs. These items are catalogued in Omni.
In addition, books requested via the Inter-Library Loan system which have been provided by lending libraries under special conditions are made available in the Archives Reading Room.
A selection of rare books is available digitally through the Octavo http://www.rarebookroom.org/ link.
A few examples from Trent's Special Collections are available.
Bibliographies
Librarian Janice Millard has created a number of subject bibliographies which researchers will find useful:
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