Catherine McElvain Library
Catherine McElvain LibraryPhotograph courtesy John Kantner
The Catherine McElvain Library opened in 1991. Its purpose is to serve the research needs of the staff, scholars, and artists through an active program of materials acquisition and library services. Because the Library has only limited seating and other resources, we ask SAR members, visiting scholars, and researchers who wish to use the collections to contact the librarian in advance and identify the purpose of their visit. Only residential fellows, staff, and SAR members may check out material. The library catalog is availabe online at library.sarsf.org.
The Library has a strong basic anthropology collection with a concentration in reference materials, archaeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and linguistics. The collection presently comprises approximately 50 current journal subscriptions and 8,600 books and manuscripts in the following areas:
- General Anthropology
- Anthropological Theory
- Archaeology
Method and Theory
Southwestern United States
Eastern and Southeastern United States
Mexico and Mesoamerica
Europe and Great Britain
- Ethnology and History
Southwestern United States
Plains area
Eastern United States
Mexico and Mesoamerica
Europe, Asia, and Oceania
- Linguistics
- Physical Anthropology
- Southwest and New Mexico History
- Biology and Geology (limited holdings)
For more information, contact us at library[at]sarsf.org.
