Collections
The University Library contains a wide range of diverse and unique collections that can be explored below. Some archival collections may be in the process of being arranged and may take longer to access.
Featured Collections
98 narratives revealing a layered understanding of the Chicana/o movement in Northern California, specifically Sacramento.
Chronicles the Japanese American experience of immigration and settlement to the United States, WWII Internment, redress, and reparations. Includes JAAC finding aid, digital collection, monographs, serials, oral histories, audiovisual materials, and more.
Manuscripts, personal papers, and organizational records document regional and national politics, as well as the literary, community, and cultural life in the Sacramento Region.
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Papers, correspondence, and teaching aids pertaining to the educational and professional life of Joe Serna, Jr., college professor and mayor of Sacramento, California.
Consists of materials related to research on the natural history of the Sacramento area and involvement with the Save the American River campaign.
Newsletters, reports, subject files, and publications relating to Ed Silverbrand's "Silver File" reports and "Update on State Legislation" newsletters.
Course material, publications, and photographs pertaining to Susan Clark Slaymaker, geology professor at Sacramento State.
Leaves from various Bibles and manuscripts, accompanied by facsimiles of their title-pages, collected by Stanley Slotkin, a businessman and philanthropist.
Papers of Ellen Rosser Smith, faculty in the English Department. Topics include her involvement in developing the Women's Studies Program.
The Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection presents the ceramics, scrolls, and tea utensils collected and used by Sokiku Nakatani in her studies and as a teacher of Chado (the Way of Tea).
Personal correspondences of the U.S. Ambassador in Greece.
The Southeast Asia Community Resource Center Collection at Sacramento State University Library documents the experience of these refugees, comprising over 6,000 books, journals, newspapers and artifacts from Hmong, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Laotian, Cambodian, Karen, and Mien refugees dating from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.