Location: Lower Level, Central Tower
Phone: 256-824-6523
Email: archives@uah.edu
Hours: We are open to the public Monday-Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. To request a research appointment, please fill out our visitor form. You can also contact us via reference chat during those hours, by telephone or by email. Closed during official UAH holidays. Visiting researchers are encouraged to schedule an appointment with the faculty of Special Collections and Archives.
Holiday Closures:
We will be closed for the following 2025 Summer Holidays: Memorial Day (May 26, 2025) Juneteenth (June 19, 2025) and July 4 Holiday (July 4, 2025).
Click link to campus calendar for other campus holiday closures
Faculty and Staff:
Reagan Grimsley, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Librarian III
Drew Adan, Archivist, Librarian III
Charlie Gibbons, Digital Archivist, Librarian II
Sam Keiser, Archival Technician
Consult the Library Directory for contact information.
Special Collections is a closed stack facility, and thus patrons must consult the faculty/staff person on duty for access to materials. All researchers must fill out a visitor registration form. Visitors to the Reading Room are asked to sign in each time they visit, and we will assist in locating and retrieving the items they wish to consult. Food and drink are not allowed in the archives, and we request that all visitors use pencils instead of pens. Below are our reading room handling guidelines.
Directions to Special Collections in the Salmon Library:
From the west:
From I-65 take I-565 East to Huntsville. Take Exit 15 at the US Space & Rocket Center. Turn LEFT at the 2nd traffic light onto Sparkman Drive. Continue about a mile to Holmes Avenue and turn RIGHT. Continue a quarter mile, and turn LEFT on Ben Graves Drive at the traffic light. Take the first LEFT to parking lot G17 (see map below). Visitor parking for the library is located in this lot. After parking, visit the front desk of the library for a visitor parking permit. Make certain to take down your tag number as you will need it for your parking pass. Face masks are not required.
From the east:
Entering Huntsville, US 72 splits into I-565. Take I-565 to Exit 15 (Sparkman Drive) and turn RIGHT off the exit. Continue about a mile to Holmes Avenue and turn RIGHT. Continue a quarter mile and turn LEFT on Ben Graves Drive at the traffic light. Take the first LEFT to parking lot G17 (See map below). Visitor parking for the library is located in this lot. After parking, visit the front desk of the library for a visitor parking permit. Please write down your tag number as you will need for the parking pass. Face masks are not required.
A Google Map Link to Salmon Library Visitor Parking is here.