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Digital Curation, Archives & Special Collections

We collect, preserve, and provide access to unique records, rare books, manuscripts, audiovisual material, cartographic material, ephemera, digital files, and other primary source materials to advance knowledge of UC Merced, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada regions, and to support the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University. We engage in collaborative partnerships to ensure our collections and programs represent the diversity of our campus and region.
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Our Collecting Areas

Discover our collections, and find out more information on our collecting areas of interest.

Plan Your Visit

Find out more information on now to plan a visit to conduct research in our archives.

Instruction & Class Visits

Learn how to schedule instructional sessions where students can work directly with archival materials, or where an archivist can visit a class for an introduction to archives and archival research.

Partnerships

Explore the partnerships we have engaged in with organizations across the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada regions.

 

   News | Updates

We are embarking on the construction of spaces to protect and provide access to our collections, with support from a National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Infrastructure & Capacity Building Challenge Grant. Read more about this project.

We currently house the archives of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which were evacuated here due to wildfires in 2020. Contact archives@ucmerced.edu regarding access.

   Explore Collections

Find detailed inventories of our collections on the Online Archive of California (OAC). 

Discover digitized items as well as born-digital materials we collect and preserve. 
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