General Holdings Information

The University Archives and Records Center is a research repository of national significance. It contains primary research sources relating to the university, Louisville, and the nation. UARC is located on the fourth floor of the William F. Ekstrom Library on the University of Louisville's Belknap Campus.

As "The Memory of the University," the archives preserves and makes available for research the official records of the University of Louisville, one of the oldest municipal universities in the United States, in accordance with state and federal law and university policy.

The archives is also known for its Urban History Collections, nineteenth and twentieth century records of important businesses, cultural organizations, social service agencies, and churches, and personal papers of political figures scholars, and members of the Jewish and African-American communities. The University Archives and Records Center administers the University's Oral History Center, preserving over 1,300 taped recollections of university personnel and students, community leaders, members of ethnic communities, workers, and business executives.

For links to other historical resources, see the Links to Other Archives and History Sites section of this Website.