Collections

The Media Services department contains not only microform and microfiche of print materials but also many audio/visual resources as well as housing the Digital Media checkout equipment.

A finding guide is often required to locate items within major collections.

• Early English Newspapers (1603-1865)
• Underground Newspapers (from the mid-1960s to 1972)
• Cutter newspapers (miscellaneous issues of domestic and foreign newspapers)
• Newsbank (includes selected articles from regional newspapers throughout the U.S., including Lincoln and Omaha. An index is available through the Specialized Databases Network)
• Daily Newspapers
  • New York Times (Sept. 13, 1857-present)
  • Chicago Tribune (1849-Dec. 1953, Jan. 1972-present)
  • Washington Post (Jan. 1, 1912-Dec. 1949, Jan. 1, 1969-present)
  • Los Angeles Times (Jan. 1, 1972-present)
  • Times (London) (Mar. 18, 1788-present)
  • Le Monde (Jan. 1968-present)
  • Daily Nebraskan (Sept. 16, 1914-present) (with the Hesperian and the Nebraskan back to 1871) 
A list of Newspapers in Microform in Love Library may be consulted at the Reference/Information Desk. Current newspapers are also available in the periodicals room.

• Backfiles of many current popular and scholarly magazines and journals are available.
• Series:
  • American Periodical Series I (1700s) (The three APS collections contain over 1100 periodicals)
  • American Periodical Series II (1800-1850)
  • American Periodical Series III (1850-1900)
  • British Periodicals in the Creative Arts (71 periodicals published from the 1700s to the early 1900s)
  • Early British Periodicals (Approximately 170 periodicals published in Great Britain during the 1700s & 1800s)
  • English Literary Periodicals (Over 200 essay journals, magazines and reviews publised between 1681-1900)
  • Early American Periodicals Index to 1850 (Indexes 352 American magazines from 1730 to 1850)
  • Women's Periodicals (includes many suffrage, abolitionist and other reform publications from the 19th and early 20th centuries)

• Early American Imprints (1639-1819)
• The Plains and the Rockies
• Western Americana
• Canadian Imprints (1751-1800)
• Early English Books (1475-1700)
• The Eighteenth Century (English-language books, pamphlets, and single sheets)
• French Books before 1601
• Eighteenth-century French fiction
• German Books before 1601
• Hispanic Culture Series: Books before 1601
• Italian Books before 1601
• Literature of Folklore
• Scandinavian Culture Series (Imprints from the late 1400s to the 1800s)

• Three Centuries of Drama: American
• Three Centuries of Drama: British
• Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
• Le theatre de la Revolution et de l'Empire

• Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche
• Draper Manuscripts (Premiere collection of Western History documents from the University of Wisconsin)
• German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1867-1920
• Captured German documents (1932-1945)
• New York Times Oral History Program (Approximately 600 interviews about events and issues from the 1880s to the 1970s)
• Rhodes House Anti-Slavery Papers (Papers from a variety of British Abolitionist Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society (Papers from the first formal U.S. abolitionist society, 1775-1868)
• Slavery Source Materials (441 antebellum titles concerning slavery)
• British Manuscripts Project (Includes manuscripts from the Marquises of Bath, the Dukes of Northumberland, the Barons of Sackville and the Bodleian Library at Oxford)

U.S. Census publications, statistics, Congressional reports, documents and hearings, as well as other federal government publications can be found on microprint, microfilm, and microfiche. The library also has many documents in paper. Some British publications are also available in microforms, as are selected Nebraska documents.

ERIC is a national information system that collects, screens, organizes, and disseminates educational research information and material. Although aimed at the educational community, ERIC interprets education broadly, making a wide variety of documents available on many topics. The library owns ED documents, while the EJ items will be found within their original journal.

Collections of presidential papers and letters, selected theses and dissertations from other universities, videotapes, spoken-word recordings, corporate reports and many other materials are also part of the microforms collection. Ask at the Reference/Information Desk for further information.