Chester Fritz Library Updates

Dean of Libraries and Information Resources, Stephanie Walker, has lots of news and notes for us in her 2018 Summer Update. Learn more about what’s happening in the UND Scholarly Commons or how we recently introduced the MagicBox to the university and community. More information about our initiatives to support open access (OA) and open […]

Are you looking for a new book to read? Want to find a book that matches certain specifications? Then you need to check out NoveList, a database that helps match you with just the right book that you feel like reading right now. NoveList is a service provided by the North Dakota State Library to […]

Do you follow the Chester Fritz Library on social media? We post updates for events and happenings in the library, around UND, and in the Grand Forks area community on Twitter and Facebook and keep you updated on fun or interesting things from around the library on Instagram. Want to find some great #SummerReading for your vacation? […]

Over the past few semesters, we have been highlighting librarians who sit behind the Ask a Librarian desk, ready to answer your questions and to help you with your research. (Check out the previous interviews!) Today’s interview comes from…wait a minute, could this be true? Is today’s interview from our very own blog administrator and web […]

Have you checked out the UND Scholarly Commons yet? With over 8,000 items already included and getting closer to 4,000 downloads, the Commons is definitely getting noticed! From art collections to theses and dissertations to data sets to poster presentations, the Commons has a wide variety of information available for research and perusal.   Want […]

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, […]

The Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections in the Chester Fritz Library and the Department of History will again sponsor the annual Merrifield Competition, which provides a $1000 UND scholarship in recognition of the most outstanding student research paper that uses primary source materials from UND Special Collections. All entries must be submitted to Special […]

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 […]

The Chester Fritz Library welcomes you to its first multimedia interactive exhibit celebrating Elwyn B. Robinson’s History of North Dakota. This book, a standard text throughout the state’s high schools and colleges, is now a freely available open access e-book that is hosted in the UND Scholarly Commons Digital Repository. The multimedia exhibit resides in a MagicBox display case […]