UCLA Library Department of Special Collections
The Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections houses and provides access to the UCLA Library’s central collection of rare books and manuscripts in the humanities, social sciences, visual arts, and other special materials.
The Department's rare book holdings consist of some 333,000 volumes, while its non-book holdings comprise more than 30 million manuscripts, 5 million photographs and negatives, ephemera, maps, works of art, architectural drawings and models, and other graphic arts material.
The collection does not circulate. It is available for use in the Ahmanson-Murphy Reading Room by readers holding valid UCLA Library Cards.
