How can you search for materials in Special Collections?

Books, maps, and archival collections in Special Collections are Archives can be located through keyword searches of the library catalog.  To browse a selection of these resources by subject, use the Research Guides for Rare Book and Map Resources, DePaul University Archives, Community Archives, or the Vincentian Studies Collection.

Archival collections, composed of manuscript papers or organizational records, are described by tools called finding aids. Each archival collection has a finding aid that provides a description of the collection and its contents, organized into numbered boxes and folders. PDFs of finding aids are browsable by subject within our Research Guides, and are keyword searchable in the DePaul ArchivesSpace database at depaul.archives.edu.