UMass Dartmouth Library: At the center of campus discourse, learning and scholarship - An Introduction to the Building Program

"It is the intention of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth to undertake a ten-million dollar project to expand and renovate its campus library. The purpose of this building program document is to provide the context, vision, and detailed functional information that will guide the architect in developing a building plan for the expansion and renovation".

Library Archives & Special Collections

The library's building program includes Archives & Special Collections which is in the midst of undertaking a major expansion and renovation of its own. Archives & Special Collections has a unique mission of preserving access to records created by the university faculty, staff, administrators and students, as well as manuscript collections which document the history of the people, industry and institutions of southeastern Massachusetts. It also maintains a reference and rare book collection and a collection of psychological tests.

Archives & Special Collections is one of the university's centers of excellence. The Archive's include the records of the two 19th century textile schools, the New Bedford Institute of Technology and the Bradford Durfee College of Technology, that combined to form the university and special collections of Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Franco-American, Italian and Jewish, and personal and family papers of important local individuals, such as Earl P. Charlton, one of the founders of F.W. Woolworth, and Fall River born state senator Mary L. Fonseca. The Archives is also home to the world-renowned Robert F. Kennedy Assasination Archives.