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."

New Book Club of Texas publication:

Collecting Texas: Essays on Texana Collectors and the Creation of Research Libraries

Recently added finding aids

SMU-in-Taos records
Edmund Montgomery and Elisabet Ney papers

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