Academy Library
Untold Stories from the Archives
Learn about the Academy’s unsung heroes through profiles written by Academy archivists, including Careers in Science highs school interns.
Collections
Our collections include the Research, Reference, Rare Books, and Serials sections, as well as Map Collections and the Archives—home to materials related to the history of the Academy itself. And that's just for starters.
Online Resources
From databases of our own holdings—including the expansive Academy Library catalog—to partnerships such as The Online Archive of California (OAC) and Manzanita Image Project, we offer countless ways to access hundreds of years of natural-science history.
The Corsi Digital Library and Lab
The Corsi Digital Library is the institutional home of the Academy's historic and naturalist photography collections.
The Corsi Digital Library and Lab
The Problematic Legacy of David Starr Jordan
Archivists investigated the influence of David Starr Jordan, Academy ichthyologist and eugenicist.