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Archives and Special Collections
The ARCC contains private and university records, rare books, and an emphasis on London's history.
Archives and Special Collections
The ARCC contains private and university records, rare books, and an emphasis on London's history.
Archives and Special Collections
The ARCC contains private and university records, rare books, and an emphasis on London's history.
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University records with enduring value are routinely added to the Archives’ holdings.
In addition, Archives and Special Collections encourages donations to its holdings. Donations can be accepted from affiliated institutions and campus organizations, faculty members, as well as local organizations, individuals, and families. Archivists and Librarians work with donors to appraise their offered donation, identify material of potential value, and assist in the preparation and transfer of materials.
Donors must sign a deed of gift-in-kind, which transfers title and copyright (where applicable) to The University of Western Ontario (Western University). The deed specifies terms governing access and use of the donated materials, identifying specific restriction where merited. Donations of private or personal papers, maps, or rare books may be eligible for a tax receipt issued through Western’s Advancement Services. For more information on acquisitions, please see ASC’s Acquisition Policy.
If you are interested in donating, please contact us by phone at 519-661-4046 or by email at archives.services@uwo.ca.
Archives and Special Collections has a crowdsourcing transcription project with FromThePage to make handwritten material from the university’s archives more accessible and to engage with the archives community, on and off campus.
Archived web collections are available on Archive-IT - University of Western Ontario (archive-it.org).
Archived websites are 'snapshots' or 'screenshots' that don't exist on the internet. As a result, it takes longer to load an archived website than it would take to load a live webpage.