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Special Collections and Archives 101

Everything you need to know about conducting archival research.

What Are Archives?

Archives are institutional and personal memory banks. We acquire, organize, arrange, describe. preserve, and make accessible the documents and artifacts of the past.

Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Clemson University welcomes researchers, faculty, students, staff, and the wider Clemson community to the archives.

 

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Ready to start your next project using primary sources? Interested in learning more about what Special Collections and Archives has to offer? This guide introduces students and researchers to primary source research and it includes information about the collections and services offered at Special Collections and Archives.

Students and New Researchers: Use this guide to learn about tools and find resources to help you start using archival materials.

Instructors: Use this guide to share resources with your students and get help requesting an instruction session with the archives.

Special Collections and Archives
Strom Thurmond Institute (STI)
230 Kappa St
Clemson, SC 29631
archives@clemson.edu
(864)656-3031

https://libraries.clemson.edu/specialcollections/

Hours: 
Appointments are strongly encouraged.        
9am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm Monday to Thursday. 
Friday by appointment.