The collection consists of books, periodicals, and published ephemera related to alternative media between roughly the 1960s and 1998. The collections has a special focus on Quebec alternative, grassroots, and political publications as well as journalism trade publications and ephemera, and union and labour movement publications. Some publications are from Cuba and China, including Cuban calendars and some documents, books, and newspapers on China.

Collection consists of programs related to an appearance by Harry Belafonte in Montreal in support of the Society to Overcome Pollution's environmental aims. Also contains a clipping, manuscript notes, and a typescript signed Mona Elaine Adilman about Quebec environmental legislation.