HI supports two programs offered by the Special Collections Libraries for visiting scholars and graduate students to use the UB Libraries’ outstanding special and distinctive collections, which include the Poetry Collection, University Archives, Rare Books, the Music Library, the Polish Collection, and the History of Medicine Collection.
Applications for the 2025-26 academic year are closed. The 2026-27 application period will take place in Spring 2026.
Special Collections includes four units: The Poetry Collection, University Archives, Rare & Special Books and The Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection. Housed separately from the Libraries’ regular collections, the rich literary and historical materials found in these collections make them invaluable to researchers and a distinguished part of the university.