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University Archives
About the University Archives
The Wake Forest University Archives serves as the repository for published and unpublished material documenting the history of this institution. Collections include papers of the school's presidents; official records of academic and administrative departments, faculty committees, student organizations, and libraries; minutes from Board of Trustees meetings; and a large collection of photographs.
An outline of the Record Groups in the Wake Forest University Archives is also available.
University Archives also maintains collections of official university and student publications, biography files on alumni and faculty, and news clippings files.
Contact Information
Wake Forest University Archives
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
P.O. Box 7777
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Phone: 336-758-3978
Fax: 336-758-5605
How to Find Materials
Rare books and other Special Collections monographs and published serials are fully cataloged in the library's online catalog. By employing the Search Limits function in the catalog, you can limit your search to only Special Collections materials (please note that the Search Limits function does not work with author searches).
We also have available an outline of the Record Groups in the Wake Forest University Archives. This provides a brief listing of the materials collected in the Archives.
Manuscript finding aids and inventories provide more detailed information about University Archives, church records, and personal and literary manuscript collections. Many of these Finding Aids are available online. A few collections do not yet have electronic finding aids; paper indexes for these collections are available in the Special Collections Department. Please consult the Special Collections staff for more information.
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The archives are open to the public. However, certain files, such as Trustees' minutes or Registrar's records, are confidential and can only be opened with permission of the originating body. Users of University Archives are expected to abide by our Special Collections use policies.
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