The Nashville Room, Special Collections Division, which is located on the library's second floor, serves as a repository and research center for historic Nashville materials. The Division currently consists of the Nashville Room, the Civil Rights Room, the Nashville Banner Archives, and four Writer's Rooms. The Division's Special Collections Center is scheduled to open in Fall 2006.

Research Guides, Bibliographies, & Online Resources

• Genealogy Research
  How-to guides, useful collections, search tips.
• Bibliographies & Research Guides
• Online Resources
  Marriages, Obituaries, & HeritageQuest Online

Physical Collections
If a finding aid is available online for a collection, there will be a link to the finding aid. Some collections may also have finding aids that are available upon request at the public service desk.

• Book Collections
• Ephemera
• Finding Aids
• Image Collections
• Maps
• Microforms
• Nashville Banner Archives
• Oral History (Civil Rights Oral History Project | Veterans History Project | Guidelines for Oral History Projects)
• Periodicals and Journals
• Portraits
• Records and Manuscript Collections
• Vertical Files

Digital Collections
The Special Collections Division contributes material to the Nashville Public Library Digital Collection. Materials available include photographs, postcards, maps, oral histories, and ephemera. The digital collection is a work-in-progress, so check back often for new additions. Use our search guide for Tips on Searching Digital Collections.