The library's fourth floor is home to the Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections. These collections are a vital resource for UMKC students, faculty, researchers, and visiting scholars from throughout the United States and around the globe.

Visitors to Special Collections have an opportunity to enhance their research through the examination of a range of original materials including rare books and manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, broadsides, diaries, and music scores.

Books, periodicals and other materials in Special Collections are listed in the MERLIN Library Catalog. Manuscripts and uncataloged collections are accessible through finding aids available in the Special Collections reading room.

For more information, please visit:

• Special Collections and Marr Sound Archive
• Special Collections - Collection descriptions
• Digitization projects and online exhibits

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• Main tour page
• Floor plans