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Thanks to Curt Hanson, the head of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, for today’s guest post and update! The first foray by the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections into placing documents in the UND Scholarly Commons is done! For both the UND Centennial in 1983 and the Quasquicentennial in 2008, […]

Thanks to the contributions of our generous donors! What can your library do with donor contributions? A lot! For example, we currently have our “YOU ARE NOT ALONE: New LGBTQ+ Books and Graphic Novels” display up at the library through March 2018. How did we acquire this collection? Through donor funds! A huge thank you […]

Today’s guest post is courtesy of Holly Gabriel, CFL’s Business Librarian and Documents, Patents, and Trademarks Specialist. Thanks for getting us up to speed on this new and important resource, Holly! Are you looking for funding? The UND campus recently acquired a subscription database called the Foundation Directory Online. The database provides detailed information on more than […]

Because UND has access to many of their journal packges, you might have already heard about JSTOR, the service that began by digitizing scholarly journal backfiles, especially in arts, humanities, social sciences, and business. JSTOR was founded in 1995 by William Bowen, former President of Princeton University; the acronym is short for “Journal Storage.” What […]

Today’s guest post is courtesy of Zeineb Yousif, CFL’s Digital Initiatives Librarian. Kudos to Zeineb for doing the hard work to get the Scholarly Commons up and running, and special thanks for giving us more information about the new institutional repository! Exciting news! Chester Fritz Library is now the proud administrator of a campus institutional repository […]