Search Our Collections

Physical Archives

ArchivesSpace is a searchable database for unique, historical items such as letters, reports, diaries, scrapbooks, meeting minutes, photographs, and Middlebury College records.

To learn more about using ArchivesSpace, visit our ArchivesSpace guide (go/aspaceguide/).

Digitized Archival Materials

Search the Internet Archive at Middlebury for digital copies of items in our collections, such as photographs; letters; maps; Middlebury College yearbooks, newspapers, and magazines; unique manuscript items; College documents; and other archival materials.

To learn more about using the Internet Archive, visit our Internet Archive guide (go/iaguide/).

Rare books, manuscripts, and everything else

LibrarySearch is Middlebury’s online library catalog. To search for rare books and manuscript materials, narrow your search location to “Special Collections & Archives.”

Archived Websites

Archive-It hosts an archive of websites, blogs, social media, and other web-based projects created by members of the Middlebury community.

To learn more about using Archive-It, visit our Archive-It guide (go/archiveitguide/).

Students and faculty are encouraged to submit URLs for websites, blogs, and social media presences to Special Collections for web archiving. Email URLs to specialcollections@middlebury.edu.

Student theses

The College Archives retains honors undergraduate theses and DML dissertations through 2019. 

To determine if a thesis is in the Archives, search our listing of undergraduate theses and senior work (go/specialtheses/). Honors theses and DML dissertations are available to view in our reading room.

For theses and student work available online, search the Middlebury Institutional Repository (go/repository/).

Middlebury students and alumni can voluntarily submit theses and other academic work at go/submit/.