Special Collections is an administrative department of the University Library through which the Librarys collection of archives, manuscripts and rare books are managed, alongside the film collections of the Bill Douglas Centre. The Universitys Fine Art Collections are also administered through Special Collections. Special Collections supports the missions of the University of Exeter and its Library. Its mission is to preserve, develop, promote, and facilitate access to the Universitys heritage collections, which, by virtue of their rarity, provenance, or special physical feature, require secure closed access storage and supervised use. Special Collections pursues this mission in support of the Universitys research, teaching and learning objectives the Librarys mission to develop as a major regional information resource for the South West of England. Special Collections seeks to raise the profile of the University and Library by achieving recognition of the regional and national significance of its collections.

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