This summer the library is undertaking a project that will result in the removal of some bound print periodicals – but only titles that duplicate existing online access that has been secured to continue indefinitely. The initial focus for this weeding project is print serials for which Cline Library has secured perpetual online access via JSTOR. The online JSTOR platform is well used by NAU users, who downloaded more than 130,000 articles from it in 2020. Thus, while we are…

Image by SCY from Pixabay For two years, NAU has been part of a multi-institutional project aimed at streamlining the process of providing resources for students with print disabilities. Now that collective effort, known as “FRAME,” will continue for another two years, thanks to a grant of $1,175,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a second phase, “Federated Repositories of Accessible Materials for Higher Education II.” The participants in the original two-year, $1 million grant…

If you can’t get your favorite Special Collections and Archives image out of your mind, why not put it on your wall?  Order your favorite image from SCA’s Digital Collections for $20 (for personal use).  Choose from thousands of images that document the history, people and places of NAU and the Colorado Plateau -- from Old Main to the Grand Canyon, petroglyphs to portraits, tribes to trails, Route 66 to river running – and support Cline Library and SCA at…

We are thrilled to announce that Cline Library’s Special Collections and Archives has been awarded a $349,526 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the digitization of rare and unique moving images documenting the human and natural history of the Colorado Plateau. The 400 moving images in question are held by SCA and three regional cultural heritage partners: the Hopi Tribe, the Hualapai Tribe, and Diné College on the Navajo Nation. All together these moving images offer…