When searching across the list of named collections by name, keyword or subject, keep in mind that not all of the materials held by the Irvin Department are part of a named collection; so be sure to use the online catalog to access print and audio-visual materials and to use finding aids to access archival collections.
| Collection | Format | Resources | Keywords (hidden column) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS and Sexuality Ephemera Collection, 1983-1997 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections, AIDS, HIV, Public Health |
| HIV/AIDS and Its Impact | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | Historical Collections; Public health |
| Cleanth Brooks Collection, 1930 – 1994 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature Collections |
| Cleanth Brooks Collection | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records Finding Aid |
American Literature Collections |
| Clifford Allen (Lord Allen of Hurtwood) Papers, 1911-1962 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections; World War I |
| David Rogers Chesnutt Archive, 1946-2016 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; History; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Early Computing |
| Derek P. Royal Graphic Narrative Collection | Catalog Record | ||
| Donald J. and Ellen Greiner Collection of James Dickey, 1954-2005 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Southern Literature |
| Ed Grady Screenplay Collection, 1983-2001 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature; Film; Television |
| Donald J. and Ellen Greiner Collection of John Hawkes, 1963-2009 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature |
| Donald J. and Ellen Greiner Collection of Frederick Busch | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | American Literature |
| Edwin C. Epps Collection of Pat Conroy, 1983-1994 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Southern Literature |
| Elizabeth Knight Hinckley Sturgis Collection, 1827-1866 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections; nineteenth century; correspondence |
| Erwin Ford Collection of George V. Higgins, 1963-2007 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Crime fiction |
| Florence Fetz Mansfield Papers, 1924-1955 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| Flynn Harrell Papers, 1948 - 1981 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections |
| Hancock Family Papers, 1767-1849 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections |
| Jack De Bellis Collection of John Updike, 1976-2008 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Jim Blanton AIDS Collection, 1985-1994 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections; HIV; Public Health |
| Joyce Morrow Pair Collection of James Dickey, 1984-2007 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature; Southern Literature |
| Malcolm Argyle Franklin Collection, 1847-1978 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections; Southern Literature; Faulkner |
| Marian Bruce Logan Collection of Civil Rights Activism, 1945-1989 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections -- Civil Rights Collections; women; Civil Rights; Arts |
| Marian Bruce Logan Collection of Civil Rights Activism | Books | Catalog Record | Historical Collections -- Civil Rights Collections; women; Civil Rights; Arts |
| Matthew J. Bruccoli Collection of James Dickey, 1943-2006 | Books, periodicals, printed material, audio-visual material, photographs | Catalog Records | American Literature |
| Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of George V. Higgins | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | American Literature; Crime Fiction |
| Matthew J Bruccoli Collection of Joseph Heller | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | American Literature; World War II |
| Matthew J. Bruccoli Papers, 1894-2010 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Maurice J. Speiser Papers, 1913-1986 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Maurice Sendak and Leroy Richmond Collection of Correspondence, 1965-2007 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- Children's Literature |
| Mitchell and Morley Kennerley Papers, 1902-1975 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| National Endowment for the Arts Publications, 2003-2007 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
NEA; Literature and the Arts Collections |
| Pittman Shay Collection of Major General Ralph P. Cousins, 1915-1965 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections |
| Richard Layman Collection of John Dos Passos, 1900-2014 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Richard Lemay Papers, 1962 - 2004 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Richard Lemay Collection of Medieval and Arabic Philosophy and Science | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | Philosophy; Natural History and Science Collections; |
| Robert B. Ariail Papers, 1803-2011 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Natural History and Science Collections; Astronomy; Historical Astronomy; areal aireal Arial |
| Robert S. Chamberlain Collection of Military Medals and Coins, 392 BC – 1984 AD | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Historical Collections; Civil War |
| Ron Rash Collection | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | American Literature; Southern literature |
| Samuel Bloom World War I Archive, 1917-1920 | Manuscripts, archive | Finding Aid | Historical Collections; World War I |
| Samuel Bloom Collection | Books, periodicals, Printed material | Catalog Records | Historical Collections; World War I |
| Sylvia Heller Gurian Papers, 1967-2002 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| Thomas Cooper Society Papers, 1988 - 2012 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| W. Ormiston Roy Papers, 1888-2009 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Natural History; Scottish Literature |
| South Carolina College Library Collection | Books | Catalog Records Digitized Materials |
South Carolina, Library, History, Antebellum, Historical Collections |
| C. Edgar and Julie Grissom Collection of Ernest Hemingway | Catalog Records | American Literature Collections | |
| Pat Conroy Archive, 1850- | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature; Southern Literature |
| Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children's Literature & Folklore | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Children's Literature, Multi-cultural, African-American; Baker Collection |
| Graham-Kennett Collection of Children's Literature | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Children's Literature Collections; Award winning |
| Greta D. Little and Joel Myerson Collection of Multi-Cultural Children’s Literature | Catalog Records | Children's Literature collections; Multi-cultural; Global; World; Little-Myerson | |
| Elmore Leonard Archive, 1890-2013 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Crime fiction |
| George V. Higgins Archive, 1943-2000 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature -- Crime Fiction |
| James Ellroy Archive, 1915- | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- Crime Fiction |
| James Ellroy Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | American Literature; Crime fiction; Film |
| Dashiell Hammett Collection | Books, periodicals, printed material | Catalog Records | American Literature; Crime fiction |
| Dashiell Hammett Family Papers | Manuscripts, correspondence, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Crime fiction |
| Richard Layman Collection of Dashiell Hammett, 1931-2015 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- Crime Fiction |
| Nineteenth-Century British & American Literary Annuals | Books | Digitized Materials | English Literature Collections; American Literature Collections; Art; Gift books |
| Ewelme Collection of Robert Bridges | Catalog Records | English Literature | |
| Jack Mooney Collection of Rhoda Broughton, 1857-1962 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
English Literature; Women authors |
| G. Ross Roy Collection of Burnsiana & Scottish Literature | Books, periodicals, printed materials, audio-visual materials, art, photographs | Catalog Record | Literature and the Arts Collections -- Scottish Literature |
| Jean Redpath Archive, 1906-2015 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- Scottish Literature; Musicians; Women |
| Rodger L. Tarr Collection of Thomas Carlyle | Books | Catalog Records | British Literature; Scottish Literature |
| James Willard Oliver Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Philosophy |
| James Willard Oliver Collection of Bertrand Russell | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Philosophy |
| James Willard Oliver David Hume Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Philosophy |
| Pages from the Past Medieval Manuscripts | Manuscripts | Digitized Materials | Philosophy, Religion, Medieval Art |
| James Dickey Library | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | American Literature |
| Reviews on File Collection: Literary Clippings 1927 - 1970 | Reviews, clippings | Catalog Record | Literary Collections - American Literature |
| Robert D. Middendorf and Rodger Tarr Collections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1939-1999 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Records Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Robert D. Middendorf Collection | Books | Catalog Records | Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Frederick R. Karl Archive, 1961-1995 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth Century American Manuscripts and Iconography, 1787-1931 | Books, periodicals, printed material, art, manuscript, correspondence | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature; Myerson Collection |
| Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature | Books, periodicals, printed material, audio-visual material | Catalog Records | Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature; Myerson Collection |
| John Jakes Papers, 1963- | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| John Manners Iggulden Papers, 1983-2001 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Joseph Heller Papers, 1945-2013 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
American Literature; Film |
| Joseph Heller Library | Books | Catalog Records | American Literature |
| Jules Furthman Papers, 1927-1960 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| Kaye Gibbons Archive, 1987- | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections -- American Literature |
| Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald | Books, periodicals, printed material, audio-visual material, manuscript material, art | Catalog Records Digitized Materials |
American Literature |
| Wallace Markfield Papers, 1971-2002 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Records Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| William R. Bailey Collection | Books | Catalog Records | American Literature |
| Wayne Yenawine Collection, 1937 – 1981 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Literature and the Arts Collections |
| William R. Stanley Archive, 1931-2015 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
Natural History and Science Collections; Geography; Maps |
| Amy B. Millstone Paris Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Historical Collections, France, Travel, Lost Generation |
| Books from the library of Charles Pinckney (1757-1824) | Books | Catalog Records | Historical Collections |
| Gilbert S. Guinn Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Historical Collections; World War I; World War II; Military History, Aviation |
| Anthony P. Campanella Collection of Giuseppe Garibaldi | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Historical Collections, Italy, Italian Risorgimento, Revolution |
| Barnwell-Singleton Collection | Books | Catalog Records | Historical Collections, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Robert Woodward Barnwell, literary annuals, anthologies, history, social conditions, women, nineteenth century |
| John G. Daye Football History Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | College Sport Collections; Football |
| Mary Willingham Archive, 2002-2015 | Manuscripts, archive | Catalog Record Finding Aid |
College Sports Collections |
| William D. Haggard Tennis Collection | Books | Catalog Records | College Sport Collections |
| George H. Bunch Medical History Collection | Books, periodicals, printed materials, audio-visual materials, art, photographs | Catalog Records | Science Collections; Medicine, Public Health |
| Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy | Books periodicals, printed materials | Catalog Records | Natural History, Science, Astronomy, Historical Astronomy, Telescopes, areal, aireal, Arial, Ariail |
| Robert Burns Chapbooks | Printed material, ephemera | Digitized Materials | Scottish Literature Collections |
| Robert Burns Manuscripts | Manuscripts | Digitized Materials | Scottish Literature Collections |
| Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Bunyan | Books | Catalog Records | British Literature, Children's Literature |
| Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton | Books, periodicals, printed material, art | Catalog Records | English Literature Collections; Art |
| Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Foundation Collection of Ernest Hemingway | Books | Catalog Record | American Literature |
| Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment F. Scott Fitzgerald Screenplay Collection | Catalog Record | American Literature, Film, Hollywood, Entertainment |