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====Library, archives, museums and galleries<span class="anchor" id="W.A.C. Bennett Library"></span>==== Each campus has its own library, the largest of which is the W.A.C. Bennett Library based on the SFU Burnaby campus, which holds over 2.7 million print and microform volumes. SFU also has a Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, which holds many exhibits created by students as part of the museum studies courses offered in the Department of Archaeology. Archaeological collections arising from excavations and other research by faculty, staff and students are housed in the museum. Several large wooden sculptures ('totem') poles from the [[Royal British Columbia Museum]] in Victoria represent the major art traditions of the indigenous coastal peoples of British Columbia. The museum holds an extensive collection of Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppets and ethnographic objects from around the world. The museum's image collection holds over 120,000 35 mm slides and digital images of archaeological and ethnographic interest. The SFU Library's Digital Collections provide internet access to digitized documents from a number of archival collections, such as [[Harrison Brown]]'s [[Xi'an Incident]] collection,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Harrison-Brown/|title=Harrison Brown: The Sian Incident and Beyond|work=Edocs.lib.sfu.ca|access-date=2011-02-20|archive-date=2011-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706203322/http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Harrison-Brown/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the history of British Columbia and Western Canada in general, including documents from the [[Doukhobor]] migration from the [[Russian Empire]] to [[Saskatchewan]] and then to British Columbia assembled for donation to the university by John Keenlyside.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/doukhobor-collection-simon-fraser-university|title=Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007223450/https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/doukhobor-collection-simon-fraser-university|archive-date=2024-10-07|department=Special Collections|website=lib.sfu.ca|access-date=2024-11-11}}</ref> Other highlights of the collection include The Vancouver Punk Collection, which includes more than 1200 posters as well as photographs, zines, and ephemera, the British Columbia Postcards Collection, and more than 9800 editorial cartoons from Canadian newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|title = Collection highlights and introduction: Special Collections and Rare Books|url = https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/exhibits-projects/punk|access-date = 2024-11-11|archive-date = 2015-09-10|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150910173916/http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/introduction|url-status=live|website=lib.sfu.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/punk|title=The Vancouver Punk Collection|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925035950/http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/punk|archive-date=2015-09-25|access-date=2024-11-11|url-status=live|website=lib.sfu.ca|department=Special Collections}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/british-columbia-postcards-collection|website=lib.sfu.ca|department=Special Collections|url-status=live|title=British Columbia Postcards Collection|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005020127/http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/bc-postcards |archive-date=2015-10-05|access-date=2024-11-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/edcartoons-collection|title=Editorial Cartoons Collection|website=lib.sfu.ca|department=Special Collections|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023015243/http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections/manuscripts/editorial-cartoons |archive-date=2015-10-23|access-date=2024-11-11|url-status=live}}</ref> Simon Fraser University's art galleries include: SFU Gallery on the Burnaby campus (established 1970), Audain Gallery at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver (established 2010), and Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre in Vancouver (established 1989). SFU Galleries stewards the Simon Fraser University Art Collection, which includes, in its holdings of over 5,500 works, significant regional and national artworks spanning the last century. The Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at SFU houses a collection of 50,000 objects, primarily digital images and digitized textual documents, which document the art, culture and history of different First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast. The collection includes explorers' drawings, sketches, paintings and original photography.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/GetMuseumProfile.do?lang=en&chinCode=guaetu|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616011717/http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/GetMuseumProfile.do?lang=en&chinCode=guaetu|archive-date=2013-06-16|url-status=dead|title=Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at Simon Fraser University}}</ref>
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