It gives excellent coverage of the Southeastern states. Alabama genealogical materials are part of the Alabama Collection. The Map Collections contains both maps and books dealing with maps. The book portion of the collections contains approximately 6,000 volumes, including a select number of atlases, as well as geographical dictionaries, map bibliographies, and several cartographic magazines. The Ralph Brown Draughon Library is a depository for both the U.S. Geological Survey and Defense Mapping Agency maps.
Coverage is world wide.
Maps issued by the Government Printing Office are also housed in this collection. The Rare Map Collection contains over 1,390 maps dating as early as 1733. The major focus of the collection is Alabama and the southeastern states. The Oxmoor Collection is a gift collection which contains the publications of the Southern Progress Corporation, publisher of Southern Living, Travel South, Cooking Light , and Southpoint , formerly Southern Magazine . Each year Oxmoor Press donates copies of all new publications.