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This collection contains materials from Patrick Edwards Clements' time as a journalist in Florida in the 1990s. Articles and columns are written under the pen names Patrick Clements and Patrick Edwards. A small number of articles not written by Clements but which include his research are also present. Also included are 18 audio cassettes of interviews, including those for Clements' radio show "Out in the Open" on WMNF, spanning the 1990s and chronicling crucial issues for the LGBTQ+ community.

Patty Sheehan is an Orlando-based LGBTQ+ activist and politician. She is the first out lesbian to be appointed to the Orlando City Commission and the longest-serving Orlando City Council member. The Patty Sheehan collection is primarily comprised of documents, memorabilia, and photographs related to Sheehan's 2000 Orlando City Commissioner electoral campaign and her participation in Pride Parades, marches, and rallies.

The Paul A. M. Dirac Papers consists of the personal and family papers, photographs, manuscripts, galley proofs, and published papers, scientific calculations, lecture notes, and office files of Dr. Paul A. M. Dirac, winner of the Nobel Prize (Physics, 1933). Materials relating to his professorships at St. John's College at Cambridge University where he held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair from his election in 1932 until his retirement in 1969 and then as Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984, comprise the bulk of the Collection. A small group of audio recordings, certificates, realia, and selected published items transferred from his office at the time of his death are also included.