This guide provides access to library resources for both undergraduate & graduate (MA & Ed Specialist) School of Education programs at Northern Michigan University. Programs include Education, Special Education, Leadership, & Public Service.
The Graduate (MA/EdS) tab includes additional specialized resources of interest to graduate students.
Last updated: 10/15/2024
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE A ROOM @ the Library's temporary location
Lydia M. Olson Library is currently under renovation and is temporarily located on the ground & first floors of Gries Hall located here:
Click here to view library floorplans
Note that while space is extremely limited, staff are available to provide library services & assistance.
The library lobby (ground floor) has the Public Services desk (Reserves, Circulation, pick up materials), two public computers, scanner, & new books.
The first floor has printers, photocopier, and you may reserve a study room or use the Reading Room/Current Periodicals (Rm 110).
The physical collections are located in storage, and patrons must request retrieval through the OneSearch Library Catalog. Although physically browsing the shelves is not available, use the Virtual Browse feature in the library catalog entry (bottom):
Happy to answer your questions.
-- Professor Mike Strahan
Featured Resource(s) of the Month for September 2024
Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.
See tab labeled "Gale Literature Resource Center" for further details including partial list of full-text sources.
With our campus-wide license, you have full access to Education Week, which features daily news, commentary and analysis on policy, legislative and overall shifts and trends in the U.S. K-12 space. You will need to create an account using your NMU email address.