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Frederick E. Berry Library and Learning Commons

Research Tools & Collections

Education Resource Area (ERA)

The Education Resource Area (ERA) is on the 2nd floor of the the library. It includes over 29,000 books, journals & magazines, assessment tests & kits, and reference materials related to early childhood education. In addition, the ERA collection includes materials that bolster the curriculum, including the Test Collection, Global Resources, Leveled Readers, Big Books, and SELECT books.

Holocaust & Genocide Collection

In conjunction with Salem State University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Berry Library has a collection of nearly 2,000 circulating books on the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, comparative genocides, and post-genocide societies. Materials in the collection consist of titles from both the Harriot Tarnor Wacks Holocaust and Genocide Collection, and the Jill and Scott Sullivan Comparative Genocide Collection. Those materials are located on the Library’s 2nd floor. In addition to the circulating collection, the library has a special collection of holocaust survivor interviews and histories on DVD and VHS, held in the University's Archives & Special Collections

Digital Repository

The Salem State Digital Repository provides online access to selected University Archives & Special Collections materials as well as a selection of the scholarly and creative works of the University community, such as student theses and faculty publications.

University Archives & Special Collections

Salem State University’s Archives & Special Collections preserves and provides access to materials that are rare, unique, or historical. The collections are housed in a 5,000 sq ft secure, climate-controlled facility on the ground floor of Berry Library. 

The collection includes the historical records of the university (1854-present) as well as thousands of books, documents, manuscripts, maps, photographs, videos, artifacts, and ephemera. These materials are housed in the climate-controlled, secure environment of the library because of their rarity, or because of their importance as part of a special collection, or both.

While these collections must be treated with special care, Materials may be viewed by Salem State faculty, staff, students as well as outside scholars, public historians, genealogists, and other researchers. Use of these collections is strongly encouraged and visitors to Archives & Special Collections are always welcome to make use of the collections.