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An example of one of the images in the Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum's image collection.
An example of one of the images in the Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum's image collection.

New Resource: ProQuest Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ebooks

UNL Libraries has purchased a collection of 432 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ebook titles on ProQuest’s EBook Central platform. This collection was curated by ProQuest on the basis of input from Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries, and focuses on content from underrepresented minority groups, small presses, and marginalized voices. Individual book titles have been linked in the Libraries catalog.


Larsen Tractor Museum Collection: Top 10 Image & Multimedia Database

One of the most popular image databases offered by the UNL Libraries is the collection of photographs, glass plate slides and imagery of tractors, farm machinery, and the farm laborers in the Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum. Materials in the collection were created during the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Explore the images.

Resource Removed: American Civil War Research Database

American Civil War Research Database has been removed from the Alexander Street platform; the provider no longer has rights to redistribute it. Options for providing access to the database content UNL Libraries has purchased are being investigated.

Resource Name Change: Bibliography of Native North Americans

As of April 29, Bibliography of Native North Americans will be titled Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America. Records in the catalog and the A-Z database list will be updated accordingly.