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Special Collections and Archives

James Branch Cabell Library

     
 
Cabell Library, 1972.
  
 

James Branch Cabell Library, 1972. In 1975 three more floors were added.

 
 
Special Collections and Archives will close for the holiday break from
Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 through Friday, Jan. 1, 2010.
Regular hours will resume Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.
  

Located on the fourth floor of the James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives houses books, journals, manuscript collections, photographs, and other materials that support the Monroe Park Campus programs of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Special Collections and Archives contains nearly 40,000 volumes in special subject areas, including Virginia and Richmond history and literature, popular culture and graphic arts, comic arts, artist books, and much more. The department also houses the official records and archives of VCU and its predecessor institutions (Richmond Professional Institute). If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

Special Collections and Archives is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 A.M. until 5 P.M.  All other times are by appointment. For materials related to medical history and to the records of the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus of VCU, visit the Special Collections and Archives department at the Tompkins-McCaw Library.

Learn more about VCU Libraries' Archives of the New Dominion - a project to locate, secure and make accessible the paper history and archives of Central Virginia's African American, gay and lesbian, Hispanic, and women's activist communities. The project builds on past Special Collections and Archives' initiatives.

 

New online resources using materials from Special Collections and Archives

are available from VCU Libraries' Digital Collections site.

 

Contact Information

James Branch Cabell Library
Special Collections and Archives
901 Park Avenue
P.O. Box 842033
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2033

Monday - Friday 10 A.M.- 5 P.M. or by appointment.

Email: libjbcsca@vcu.edu

(804) 828-1108 phone
(804) 828-0151 (fax)

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