For many students, the opportunity to engage in meaningful original research under the tutelage of an academic supervisor is relegated to those pursuing graduate studies. Although many undergraduate students write honours theses, much of what appears in those papers is learned through access to their library’s core collections, with students accessing their library’s monograph and journal literature. What is often overlooked, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, is the richness of their own institution’s special collections and archives. As the authors of this paper argue, many instructors (and students) are unaware of the depth of their home institution's archives and special collections. This article presents a case study of a recent student-research collaboration conducted by an academic Librarian and an instructor in the Medieval Studies Program at St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.