Donating Your Materials to the Carnegie Mellon University Archives

Generally, we do not collect

• materials unrelated to the university or outside of our scope
• materials that are duplicative of items already in our collections
• secondary or published material unrelated to Carnegie Mellon
• plaques and trophies will little informational value
• materials on deposit
• rare books (for rare books, please get in touch with CMU Special Collections)
• student files including transcripts, grades and degrees
• items that contain excessive or irreparable mold or similar damage
• reappointment/tenure files
• art (paintings, sculpture, etc.)
• textbooks

If we decline a donation, we will do our best to help you identify another home for the material.

When in doubt, please do not throw it out!