Materials which might be used by elementary and secondary school teachers, including K-12 textbooks, curriculum guides, syllabi, kits, posters,transparencies, videos, films, filmstrips, cassettes and LP discs
Collection includes printed music and recordings as well as video materials, books, microforms, and current periodicals on the subject of music. Facilities include eighteen listening and two viewing stations.
The Sandra F. Pritchard Mather and John Russell Mather Cartographic Resource Center (CRC), located on the second (Main) floor of the FHG Library, has a collection of over 3200 maps in addition to atlases, gazetteers and reference books. More than 500 atlases are available to researchers, including historical and international editions.
The primary mission of the Special Collections Department is to collect materials dealing with the history of Chester County and West Chester University. The collection contains various 18th and 19th century horticultural and botanical works from the libraries of William Darlington and the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Sciences. The collection also includes rare books, including the complete five volume set of Shakespeare Folios. The Special Collections Department also houses the West Chester University Archives and several other archival collections.
