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Featured November 13, 2018

Three additional collections now available in ACDC!

Photograph of Amherst Academy

Three newly digitized archival collections have recently been added to Amherst College Digital Collections (ACDC). Check out the Sidney Brooks (AC 1841) Papers, the Amherst College Admission Office Annual Reports to Secondary Schools, and the Amherst College Early History Collection now available online.

Amherst College Digital Collections

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There’s even more to the library than our extensive collection of books and media, e-journals and databases, and physical spaces.

Archives & Special Collections

Archives & Special Collections

Discover our rare books, literary manuscripts, recorded information of unique value, and materials that document the college and its history.

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Amherst College Press

New Scholarship

The open-access Amherst College Press publishes emerging scholarship from—and for—scholars everywhere.

Amherst College Press

Art & Architecture Collection

Amherst College Digital Collections

Over 100,000 digitized art works, photographs, manuscripts, books, and more from Archives & Special Collections and our Art & Architecture Collection, plus open-access scholarship by Amherst faculty.

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