The Eric McLean fonds consists of textual records, approximately fifty photographs, several oversized documents, one hundred and sixty-four reel-to-reel recordings, ninety eight cassette recordings and a personal portrait ("Eric McLean at the piano") by the Canadian artist John Fox. In addition to the aforementioned items, the fonds also comprises a substantial collection of musical scores (including copies of both the Neue Mozart and Neue Bach Ausgaben), musicological monographs, and an extensive LP sound recording of over seven thousand items.

Below is a brief list of the McLean fonds textural records. Bibliographies of his [books], [scores], and [tapes], are also available. The manual card file indexing McLean's LP sound recording collection may be consulted by visiting the Marvin Duchow Music Library or by contacting Cynthia A. Leive, Music Librarian.