About North Bay Regional and Special Collections
North Bay Regional Collection
Sonoma State University Library's North Bay Regional Collection provides a wide range of information about the counties of Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma.
Regional materials include local documents, books, maps, audio/visual items, newsletters, and clippings. The North Bay Regional Collection is searchable in Snoopy, the Library's online catalog.
Special Collections
The Special Collections area of the Library houses materials distinguished by rarity, value, aesthetics, and format. Collection items include manuscripts, photographs, books, periodicals, audio/video recordings, and ephemera. Many are fragile and irreplaceable, requiring special access and handling procedures. Regional and out-of-region materials are found here. Except for North Bay Digital Collections, the collections listed below are available for viewing by appointment.
- North Bay Digital Collections
- Jack London Collection
- Gaye LeBaron Collection
- Brenda Starr Comic Collection
- Dawson Lime Kiln Photograph Collection
- Dust Bowl Migration Archive
- English Chapbook Collection
- Finley-McFarling Genealogy Collection
- Hawn Photograph Collection
- Ernest Hemingway Letters
- Hoyt Earthquake Photograph Collection
- John W. Hudson Papers
- Indochinese Cultures Project
- Leopold Justi Papers
- Hector Lee Folklore Collection
- Lyman Celtic Collection
- Nakata and Stevens Papers
- North Bay Ethnic Archive
- Regional Newspaper Collection
- Ruben Salazar Collection
- Ernestine Smith Papers
- Sonoma County Preservation Project
- Sonoma Writers Collection
- Sonoma County Agriculture Collection
- Roy Maxwell Talbot Papers
- John Shackelford Taylor Papers
- Nellie Tombs Papers
- Walt Phillips Small Press Collection
- Iva Warner Papers
- SSU University Archives
To Use These Collections
- User Guidelines for Special Collections
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use of Special Materials
- How to Cite Special Collections Materials *(pdf)
- Retrieval & Appointment Request
