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/. Online services currently include Internet access to over 100 databases containing 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 57,000 titles. The library provides access to a collection of over 10,000 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 400,000 books, bound periodicals, and cataloged Government Documents; 6,144 un-cataloged Government Documents; 3,745 cartographic items; 56,734 graphic materials; 2,686 computer files; 8,659 audio-visual materials; 766,295 microforms; and 5,089 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 lab. For more information concerning the resources, services, and policies of Broken Arrow Library, please visit their home page at http://library.nsuok.edu/nsuba/.
The Muskogee 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 base collections are available to all students.