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Archives and Special Collections

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Commerce in Context Exhibit Opens

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UNO’s Criss Library completes first year of National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant with Great Plains Black History Museum

Access to Local History Expanded

Archives and Special Collections acquires and preserves unique, rare, and specialized materials. The collections are available for the university community and general public to use in Criss Library and online.

Whether working on a paper for a class, producing a film, researching a local history project, writing a book, or undertaking another creative project, UNO Libraries' Archives and Special Collections has the historical materials and expertise required. To learn more, view this short video: Introduction to Archives and Special Collections.

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Collecting Areas

University Archives

Manuscript Collections

Books and Published Material

Digital Collections

Land Acknowledgment

It is appropriate to acknowledge that UNO occupies the traditional treaty lands of the Omaha and Otoe-Missouria Tribal Nations whose sovereignty existed long before the state of Nebraska. We would also like to express our respect to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and over 170 other tribes represented within the Omaha area.