J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections is dedicated to preserving and sharing the past. Our Rare Book, Manuscript, University Archives, Oral History, and Local Documents collections enhance research at all levels.

Through collection and collaboration, Special Collections connects communities and individuals, today and in years to come, to the documentary, photographic, and audio/visual history of the greater Charlotte region and of UNC Charlotte.

We are open to researchers and to the public Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm.

The Mary & Harry L. Dalton Rare Book & Manuscript Reading Room is on the 10th Floor of the J. Murrey Atkins Library.

Directions to UNC Charlotte and to the J. Murrey Atkins Library

ANNOUNCING:

19th Century Mecklenburg County Women, Contributions to Health and Hygiene, a blog on creating an exhibit and exploring collections.

Special Collections partners with NC State University and the North Carolina State Archives in LSTA funded grant, Beaux Arts to Modernism:  Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina , to digitize historical architectural drawings. 

Special Collections featured on January 12, 2009 Campus Conversations, a UNC Charlotte Cable Television program.

UNC Charlotte Motor Sports Collection: Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte announces the establishment of its Motor Sports Collection to document the history of automobile racing in the Southeast.