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Special Collections & Archives staff is available for consultation on research subjects and collection holdings. While the majority of our holdings are well cataloged and discoverable online, there are still some items only represented in our paper card catalog. If you are having difficulty finding something, please ask us.
Please note when the library recently updated our online catalogs, the links in the below guides broke. We are working actively to fix this problem. In the meantime, you can search for materials referenced by consulting the library catalog and our catalog of archives and manuscript materials.
- Africana Studies Resources
- Brunswick Region Resources
- Business Records
- Campus Buildings
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Resources
- Church Records
- Civil War Resources
- Coeducation at Bowdoin
- Genealogical Resources
- Political History Resources
- Wabanaki in Midcoast Maine (New as of June 2024)
- Pre-1601 Manuscripts
- 17th-Century Manuscripts
- Subject Research Guides: general library resources