The History and Philosophy Library also collects in this area. The collection is located in the Illinois Historical Survey Library, but many items are elsewhere, especially in the Bookstacks. Manuscripts Guide to Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of Illinois Press, 1976. English, though a few documents and monographs are in French, Spanish, and German.
Treatment ranges from scholarly to popular writings and textbooks.
The focus of the collection is on studies and sources relevant to Illinois history, except for contemporaneous materials collected by such libraries as the Commerce, Education and Social Sciences, and Map and Geography Libraries. Appropriate primary and secondary works, and bibliographic, and reference materials are acquired. Ordinarily, dissertations, theses and translations are selectively collected. Audio-visual materials are normally collected selectively. New and revised editions or important works are purchased when new explanatory or primary material is introduced.