Our mission is to house, preserve, and provide access to historical items and collections, particularly those that relate to the University, Chattanooga, the state of Tennessee, and the South. Many of our collections contain unique, primary resource materials unavailable elsewhere.

The Special Collections hold four main collections:
1. Manuscripts, Personal Papers and Local History Collections
2. Rare Book Collection
3. University Archives
4. Archives of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Arlie Herron Collection