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Correspondence, memorandum, curricular forms, awards, diplomas, catalogs, yearbooks, newspapers, pamphlets, brochures, financial records, evaluations, memorabilia, images, and other historical documents chronically the history of Onondaga Community College.

The Onondaga Community College Publication Collection contains printed materials published by the college from the early years of the college to the present day.

The Onondaga Community College Student Publications Collection contains printed newspapers, newsletters, journals, magazines and yearbooks and related files published by students from the early years of the college to the present time.

The Courier-Express newspaper was born in 1926, with the merger of the Buffalo Courier and the Buffalo Express to form the Buffalo Courier-Express. William J. Conners, owner of the Buffalo Courier, was the person instrumental in bringing the two papers together. During the 19th century numerous newspapers existed. The Buffalo Courier-Express merger can trace its roots back to 1828. From 1828 to 1926, twelve separate newspapers merged during those years, ending with the formation of the Buffalo Courier-Express; quite a chronology for the history of this newspaper. The Courier and then the Courier-Express took a liberal position on all issues. In the late 1970s, the Courier-Express was sold to Cowles-Media, an out of state publisher. Cowles Media decided to close the paper in 1982. The September 19, 1982 issue was the last one for this very popular Buffalo newspaper. Cowles Media donated the library to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society and Buffalo State College.

The Records of the Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes documents activities of the Coalition while monitoring the operations of the West Valley Nuclear Waste site in Western New York, including government and corporate documents that the Coalition collected.

Rachel Cain was a reporter, columnist and editor at the Buffalo Evening News. Her husband, Stephen Cain, worked for the Buffalo Evening and Sunday Times, Buffalo Evening News, and the Buffalo Courier-Express. National credits include stories in True and an original article in Reader’s Digest. The Cain Collection consists of three boxes of short stories, manuscripts, drafts, programs, poetry, notes, newspaper clippings, photocopies of newspaper clippings and some miscellaneous material, such as press credentials. The manuscripts include fiction and non-fiction works. Some of the documents are typed and some are hand-written; many of the documents contain hand-written notes and revisions.