News and notes from UND's Chester Fritz Library
Categories: In and Around CFL, Updates and Changes
Founded in September 2017, UND’s institutional repository, the UND Scholarly Commons, has become one of the library’s most popular resources! In September 2019 the Commons surpassed 100, 000 downloads. A year later, we’ve exceeded half a million downloads. 2020 has seen the addition of several notable collections to UND’s repository, including the North Dakota Law […]
Categories: In and Around CFL, Renovation Updates, Updates and Changes
Updated 6 September 2019: The renovation date has been moved back by two weeks and will now begin on October 7. Due to ongoing renovations, the Department of Special Collections will be inaccessible to the public starting Monday, 7 October 2019, and continuing for approximately 8 weeks. Access to Special Collections materials will be very […]
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, […]
Categories: In and Around CFL, Library Events
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 […]
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 […]