Libraries Overview

NSU has physical library facilities at its Tahlequah, Broken Arrow, and Muskogee campuses. Services include coordinated acquisitions, cataloging, reference, circulation, instruction, and interlibrary loan. The libraries also provide access to online resources and services that are available to all students and faculty from the Internet at http://library.nsuok.edu/index.html. Online services currently include Internet access to over 100 databases, email and chat based reference, and online library instruction. The databases contain a wide variety of resources including electronic books; full text journals; journal indexes; electronic versions of reference books in medical, literary, general, and business subject areas; and online maps, test information, design images, and business information. The electronic book collection contains over 70,000 titles. The library provides access to a collection of over 12,700 Internet based journal titles.

The John Vaughan Library at the Tahlequah campus is a three-story, 120,000 square foot facility. It contains over 1.2 million physical items including approximately 400,000 books, bound periodicals, and cataloged Government Documents; 9,428 un-cataloged Government Documents; 3,745 cartographic items; 56,740 graphic materials; 3,048 computer files; 7,871 audio-visual materials; 750,333 microforms; and 5,337 subscriptions. The library houses a special collection of Native American heritage materials and an archival collection of local, county, and university records and historical photographs.

The library facilities on the Broken Arrow campus offer NSU students an environment that is conducive to individual or group study and research. The library houses a growing collection of print and electronic information resources as well as access to all library materials physically housed at other NSU campuses. In addition to individualized reference services, librarians provide library instruction classes in the library’s computer lab. For more information concerning the resources, services, and policies of the Broken Arrow Library, please visit their home page at: http://library.nsuok.edu/nsuba/index.html.

The Muskogee campus library includes small reference, reserve, and current periodicals collections in traditional paper format. Members of the staff at the library provide reference, circulation, interlibrary loan, and instruction in the use of library resources. The library provides a document delivery service from the Tahlequah collection and the Internet based collections are available to all students.

Library Committees - Membership, charges, and reports

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS - Fiscal Year 2007 CATEGORY Added during fiscal year Held at end of fiscal year Books, serial backfiles, and government documents in the catalog - VOLUMES 8,750 415,275 TITLES 5,837 324,379 Government documents - not in catalog - UNITS 0 7,228 Current serial subscriptions - includes government documents 439 5,685 Electronic Serial Subscriptions (full-text) 993 14,145 Microforms - UNITS 2,870 755,822 TITLES 1,820 515.513 Manuscripts and archives - Cubic feet 52.69 1177.17 Maps 1 3,757 Graphic materials 7 56,747 Sound recordings - records, tapes and CD's - UNITS 187 3,550 TITLES 14 1042 Film and Video materials - UNITS 256 4,756 TITLES 189 1,236 Computer files - includes CD-ROMS UNITS 369 3,328 TITLES 36 325 Other library materials - such as kits, games, charts 37 274 TOTAL UNITS  13,923 1,256,747