Northeastern State University Libraries

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 42,000 titles. The library provides access to a collection of over 42,000 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 429,808 books, bound periodicals, and cataloged Government Documents; 3,295 un-cataloged Government Documents; 3,848 cartographic items; 56,762 graphic materials; 3,897 computer files; 12,266 audio-visual materials; 760,516 microforms; and 5,758 print 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 labs. 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/Connors 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 Strategic Plan

Annual Report 2011/2012 Access Services Archives Research and Instruction Technical Services Broken Arrow Library	Annual Report 2010/2011  --Technical Services
Annual Report 2009/2010  -- Archives  -- Muskogee  -- Reference  --Systems Services  -- User Services  -- Technical Services	Annual Report 2008/2009  -- Archives  -- Muskogee  -- Reference  -- User Services  -- Technical Services  -- Library Statistics	Annual Report 2007/2008  -- User Services  -- Technical Services  -- Library Statistics	Annual Report 2006/2007   -- Technical Services  -- Library Statistics	-- Annual Report 2005/2006  -- User Services  -- Technical Services  -- Library Statistics	2004/2005  -- Reference  -- Technical Services  -- User Services
2003/2004  -- Technical Services	2002/2003  -- Technical Services	2001/2002  -- Technical Services	2000/2001  -- User Services  -- Technical Services	1999/2000  -- User Services  -- Technical Services	1998/1999  -- User Services  -- Technical Services

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS - Fiscal Year 2012 CATEGORY Added during fiscal year Held at end of fiscal year Books, serial backfiles, and government documents in the catalog - VOLUMES 7,336 433,754 TITLES 4,873 336,510 Government documents - not in catalog - UNITS 0 3,284 Current serial subscriptions - includes government documents 25 5,743 Electronic Serial Subscriptions (full-text) 10,888 50,707 Microforms - UNITS 3,269 763,761 TITLES 656 518,985 Maps 55 3,903 Graphic materials 5 56,766 Sound recordings - records, tapes and CD's - UNITS 396 6,295 TITLES 212 2,736 Film and Video materials - UNITS 430 6,709 TITLES 321 2,736 Computer files - includes CD-ROMS UNITS 111 3,965 TITLES 31 528 Other library materials - such as kits, games, charts 5 391 TOTAL UNITS 28,613 1,285,009

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