• Manuscripts—personal and family papers, including but not limited to letters, diaries, and scrapbooks
• Archives—the records of businesses, agencies, and organizations, including minute books, correspondence, operations manuals, memorabilia
• Visual and three-dimensional materials—photographs, postcards, slides, posters, prints, original cartoons, and Carnival memorabilia, including parade papers, ball invitations, dance cards, and favors
• Rare books and pamphlets—those which survive in limited number, yet remain significant to today’s researchers because of their intellectual content or research potential.  Particularly desirable are nineteenth-century pamphlets printed in New Orleans, many of which contribute to our knowledge of daily life in an ever-changing milieu
• Certain printed materials—sheet music; ephemera (a broad range of minor—and sometimes major—everyday documents intended for one-time or short-term use) such as broadsides, product labels, advertisements, trade cards, billheads, carrier’s addresses, greeting cards, invitations, menus, political campaign giveaways, timetables, etc.
• Publications by UNO Faculty Authors—copies of contributions to scholarship, including articles, textbooks, and works of fiction and nonfiction, written by faculty members while teaching at UNO

To donate to Special Collections, please contact the our Louisiana and Special Collections Librarian, Connie Phelps.

Out of Print, Perhaps, But Not Without Value

The library welcomes books, audio CDs, and DVDs in usable condition that can be added to the general collection in support of the academic programs at UNO.  Please refer to the library’s Gift Policy.

To donate to the general collection, please contact the appropriate subject liaison librarian or the Collection Development Librarian.