University Libraries
Payson Library Tour
Tour
- Library Entrance
- Circulation and Reserves Desk
- DVD Collection
- Faculty Author and Audio Book Collections
- Reference Desk
- Library Catalog
- Reference Collection
- Print Indexes and Abstracts
- Interlibrary Loan and Pepperdine Campus Loan
- Keck Information Center
- Government Information Center
- Instruction Lab
- Book Stacks
- Oversize Collection
- Juvenile Collection
- Compact Shelving
- Periodicals Department
- Academic Computing Lab
- Archives and Special Collections
- Library Administration Office
- Book Returns
- Cell Phone Policy
- Disability Services Computer
- Study Rooms
- A/V Equipment
Archives and Special Collections
- Located in Room 326 on the second floor
- Houses the university rare book, manuscript and archival collections, including back issues of the student newspaper, the Graphic
- Materials cannot be checked out and must be used under the supervision of library personnel
- To use these materials, contact Lynne Jacoben (Interim Head of Special Collections and University Archives) at 310-506-7681 or via email
The major collections held by the library include:
- Items published by members of the Churches of Christ
- The Jack Kemp Papers contain personal papers, letters, videos, audio recordings, and press materials that chronicle the political career of Jack Kemp.
- T.E. Lawrence Collection donated by Edwards H. Metcalf
- Doris Kenyon Mlynarski Collection of books about Nineteenth Century Paris
- Helen Pepperdine Collection of rare children's books
- Dr. E.V. Pullias papers, an early psychology professor and Dean of George Pepperdine College
- Joel Fetzer collection contains materials from his research for the book Muslims and the State in Britain, France and Germany donated by the author.
- James Hahn Collection of personal papers, letters, videos, and other documents that chronicle the life and times in public office of the former mayor of Los Angeles.
- The Pepperdine University Oral History Project.
- M. Norvel Young Collection of his manuscripts and papers, dating from 1990, donated by Helen Young. Consists of 82 linear feet of material.
- Pepperdine University Photo Collection of over 60,000 images depicting the history of Pepperdine University.
For more information see the Special Collections and Archives wikis.
