Guides and indexes are listed by collection and subject matter. Materials with full citations were originally print resources and are now available through the UM Digital Library.
Howell, Margaret A. Directory of Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. Columbia: University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries, 2001.
Collins, Marcia. The Dance of Death in Book Illustration; Catalog to an Exhibition of the Collection in the Ellis Library of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Columbia: Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1978.
Collins, Marcia and Norman Land. Early Books on Art, 1500-1800; Catalogue to an Exhibit of some Old and Rare books on Art and Architecture in the Ellis Library of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Columbia: Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1977.
Five Views of An Age; A Selection of Late Seventeenth Century Pamphlets from Ellis Library's Rare Book Room. Columbia: Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1987.
Howell, Margaret A. Gifts to the Rare Books Room of Ellis Library. Columbia: Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1982.
Howell, Margaret A. And Charles F. Mullett. English Dissent; Catalogue to an Exhibition of Eighteenth Century Pamphlets, 18 October to 18 November 1979. Columbia: Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1979.
The Thomas Moore Johnson Collection: Presented to the University of Missouri Library, September 25, 1947. Columbia: Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1949.
Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy
Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers
William Peden Short Story Collection
University of Missouri Collection
Weinberg Journalists in Fiction Collection
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