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The Brewchive® is a comprehensive archive of San Diego county's brewing activity from personal and business aspects. The Brewchive®'s digital collections hold evidence in a wide variety of forms from individuals, breweries, organizations, and affiliated businesses involved primarily with beer, but also cider, mead, and kombucha. Digital Brewchive® materials include:

CSUSM's University Archives document the cultural heritage, intellectual and campus life, and history of the university (finding aid here). Digital collections related to the University Archives include: 

  • The CSUSM Collection at California Revealed offers a selection of events held during our early existence as San Diego State University-North County as well as the CSUSM Arts & Lectures program. The events range from Native American storytelling to lectures and musical performances. A notable supplement to this group is a video recording of a day-long hearing on Border Issues held in San Diego on February 5, 1993, with California Senator William Craven, Chair.
  • CSUSM Student Newspaper: The First 25 Years (1990-2015) showcases five different student newspapers that reflect the daily life and activities of CSUSM students, diverse editorial focus, and changing attitudes over the course of our first 25 years.
  • ScholarWorks hosts the CSU's intellectual output including faculty publications and student theses. A CSUSM instance of ScholarWorks focuses content on CSUSM's scholarship.

The Dan Rios papers are 43,000 envelopes of images documenting North San Diego County's people, places, and events from 1968-2001. Select images are available through California Revealed. Other images have been digitized and are available through the Rios papers finding aid.

The Paul Ecke Ranch, Inc. Business Records and Family Papers consist primarily of the business and administrative records of The Paul Ecke Ranch, Inc., from its origin in the early 1900s to its eventual sale to the Dutch-based Agribio Group in 2012. The Ecke Ranch was a privately-owned horticulture company that specialized in the development of new varieties of floral products and the production of floral cuttings for sale to growers of finished products. At one point, the Ranch was the world's largest supplier of poinsettia genetics. 

Voices of North County is the University Library's oral history portal, a continuously growing archive of the library's oral histories of members of our North San Diego County region (oral history collection finding aid | select digital exhibits including oral history)