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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
On February 22 poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at age 101. To honor his life and legacy and to celebrate what he loved most – the spoken word – the College of Arts & Letters and Cline Library have launched The Ferlinghetti Project, a public collection of community members reading from his work and the work he edited, published, and inspired.
During the month of March, you’re invited to record a reading of your choice or… Read more
Cline Library recently launched the Textbook Affordability Challenge to help students reduce the costs associated with their textbooks. The affordability of higher education is a recognized barrier for many potential and current Lumberjack students. One component of that affordability is required course materials, and textbook prices have increased by 190%… Read more
Cline Library is thrilled to collaborate with the Department of Anthropology, Applied Indigenous Studies, and the Native American Cultural Center to co-sponsor the feature film Gather directed by Sanjay Rawal. The film tells the story of Native American resilience across tribes in the United States and the renaissance… Read more