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The DeGolyer Library is the principal repository at SMU for special collections in the humanities, the history of business, and the history of science and technology. Its rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other materials are available to all SMU students, faculty, visiting scholars, and other researchers. DeGolyer Library’s holdings of primary sources are supported by exhibitions, lectures, publications, and seminars. Dedicated to enhancing scholarship and teaching at SMU, the DeGolyer Library is charged with maintaining and building its various collections "for study, research, and pleasure."

Charles Dickens: The First Two Hundred Years. An Exhibition from the Stephen Weeks Collection.

New DeGolyer publications :

Seven Stories by Jane Roberts Wood.

Loving U: The Story of a Love Affair (And Some Lover’s Quarrels) With a University by Marshall Terry.

The 1861 Texas printings of the ordinance of secession, a declaration of the causes, and an address to the people of Texas : an illustrated descriptive printing history commemorating the sesquicentennial anniversary of their adoption and the secession of Texas from the United States of America by Everett C. Wilkie.

To the people of Texas by Edwin W. Moore. Edited by Jonathan Jordan.

In honor of the Mustangs: the centennial history of SMU athletics, 1911-2010 by Darwin Payne.

Recently added finding aids

Holloway family papers

Helen DeGolyer papers

Ben S. Melton papers

New Accessions :



Image: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Santa Fe type Locomotives built for Southern Pacific lines, "Prosperity Special."
[Samuel M. Vauclain standing in front of "Prosperity Special"] Photograph, Ag1986.0414x




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Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


Physical address:
6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane
Dallas, TX 75205


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Ramp entrance on south side of building (McFarlin Blvd)

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