Special Collections hold a broad array of source material originating in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Books, journals, print music, and sound recordings are discoverable at the item level in OBIS, Oberlin’s library catalog. Other formats—including prints, photographs, manuscripts, papers—may be described at the collection level, rather than the item level; these are rarely listed in OBIS, but instead in finding aids, which are searchable PDFs.
For full coverage of a topic, researchers should explore both OBIS and finding aids. Additionally, highlights of some collections have been digitized and may be browsed visually.