Collections

Retired faculty may be able to access select electronic resources from off-campus.

Entertaining contemporary fiction and non-fiction books compliment Fondren's large collection of research materials.

There are more than 1,000 manuscript collections in the Woodson Research Center that focus on the history of Texas and the Greater Houston area, politics, entrepreneurship, oil and gas, architecture, women’s history, and fine and performing arts.

The William Ward Watkin and Annie Ray Watkin University Archives contain the historical records of Rice University.

Access dozens of Rice University's websites from the past. The Archive-IT service automatically archives past versions of campus websites.

Located in the basement of Fondren Library, the Kelley Center houses over 200 major microform collections

Woodson Research Center contains more than 35,000 volumes including a number of named collections.