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- Academic Search PremierFor any topic. How to use Academic Search Premier (2:23)
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Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections include archival records, personal papers, images, maps, films, videos and other unique and rare books and primary sources. The collections are available to everyone, by appointment.
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Image credit: Ink illustration for endpapers of Millions of Cats (1928), by Wanda Gág, from the Wanda Gág Papers in the Children's Literature Research Collections.
Library news
Q&A: Four librarians share how they found community at the Minnesota Institute
The University of Minnesota is training the next generation of library leaders through the Minnesota Institute.
- Contesting Control: Labor Certification, Civil Rights, and the Making of U.S. Immigration Policy
US immigration laws in the second half of the 20th century transformed from overt racial classifications to more subtle, birthplace-based systems.
- Painting on the Art Speak Machine: CBI acquires the collection of Computer Artist Maureen A. Nappi
The digital world would be entirely opaque without screens and graphics, without computer artists and designers, without people like Maureen Nappi. Her renowned computer graphics work defines how we interact with computers and makes us interrogate the intersection of technology and culture.
- Restoring the Sexual Violence Program: a new oral history project documenting feminist student activism
When the University of Minnesota abruptly closed the Sexual Violence Program’s peer counseling service in 1989, students and staff sprang into action.
These activists’ efforts successfully reinstated crucial survivor services and pressured University leadership to address the broader culture of violence against women. Today, the Sexual Violence Program lives on as the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education.
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The Libraries welcomes learners and scholars from all cultures and backgrounds.
- Our approach to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility
- Conducting research through an anti-racism lens
- Library resources for transgender topics
- Research with Indigenous partners
- Accessibility services for people with disabilities
- Umbra Search: African American history search
- Mapping Prejudice
