Manuscripts and Archival Collections

Special Collections houses personal papers of members of the University staff, graduates, benefactors and other individuals and organisations associated with the University of Adelaide, and other papers relating to the Library's general collection interests, notably the theatre, music composition, the central Pacific, and Australian aboriginal culture, linguistics and physical anthropology. There also collections of scripts, author's manuscripts and individual letters and documents of interest for their provenance, content or form.

A list of the manuscript collections is available and is supplemented by further listings for each collection. Entries for each collection and for other individual manuscripts will also be found on the University of Adelaide catalogue (which is accessible from the Library Catalogues page).

The official archives of the University and some associated bodies are held by the The University of Adelaide Archives.

Records relating to the history of the Library itself are listed here.

Other South Australian archival material is held by The Archival Database of the State Library of SA (family, business and society records) and by State Records (official government records).

Extensive records of Australian scientists are listed on Bright Sparcs.