Multi-media in scope and content, the Eric McLean fonds consists of close to 3.3 meters of  textual records, approximately fifty photographs of various sizes (both colour and black and white), 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 record collection of over 7,000 items, complimented by an intricately indexed card catalogue compiled by McLean over the course of his life.