Manuscripts Division : Mission Statement

The Manuscripts Division of the Department of Special Collections exists to arrange, describe, preserve, and make available documents of enduring historic value, both as intellectual items and as historical artifacts, to support the research needs of the undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and other scholars at Stanford University and beyond.

To this end, the Manuscripts Division is charged with the responsibility of protecting documents in its care from damage due to misuse of the collections, damage from climatic conditions, pests, or other agents of destruction, and from problems inherent in the physical documents themselves to ensure that these documents remain available for our constituents for as long as is possible.