Joseph Campbell Collection At OPUS
Joseph Campbell's papers and collections have been entrusted to the OPUS Archives and Research Center on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute. The renowned author, scholar, and mythologist was a long-time friend of Pacifica and a frequent guest lecturer. After Campbell's death, Jean Erdman Campbell and the Joseph Campbell Foundation donated his papers, books and other effects to the Center for the Study of Depth Psychology at Pacifica. The center became OPUS Archives and Research Center and is the home of the collection. The founding curator, Jonathan Young, worked closely with Ms. Erdman to gather the materials from Campbell's homes in Honolulu and Greenwich Village, New York City. The Campbell Collection features approximately 3,000 volumes and covers a broad range of subjects, including anthropology, folklore, religion, literature, and psychology. The collection also includes audio and video tapes of lectures, original manuscripts, and research papers. The mission of Opus Archives and Research Center is to preserve, develop, and extend to the world the archival collections and libraries of eminent scholars in the fields of depth psychology, mythology and the humanities. The Center is a living archive, supporting interdisciplinary dialogue, education, grants, research opportunities and public programs. The Director of the OPUS Archives and Research Center is Dr. Safron Rossi. The current special collections librarian is Richard Buchen. OPUS Archives & Research Center is free and open to the public and also hosts the Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable, a monthly discussion group in Santa Barbara.
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