The Digital Collections of the University of Illinois Library provides web access to many of the Library's signature holding for students, scholars, and the general public. Users can discover locally digitized and born-digital special collections; scholarly publications and institutional materials stored in IDEALS; research data stored in the Illinois Data Bank; and digitized books available in the HathiTrust Digital Library and Internet Archive. Users may search across all of these resources at https://digital.library.illinois.edu/.

This guide focuses on assisting users in using the Digital Special Collections component of the platform.