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Rodney A. Briggs Library

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Collections

  • Pounce the Cougar searches the stacks of books.
  • Briggs Library bookshelves

American Indian Boarding Schools Collection

Briggs Library maintains materials related to off-reservation boarding schools.

Morris Indian Boarding School

Atlas Collection

Briggs Library has an assortment of atlas materials covering state, national, and world geographical areas as well as historical perspectives.

Student using an atlas.

Best Sellers and Hot Picks Collection

Briggs Library offers a variety of recent popular fiction and nonfiction titles. 

Bookshelf dedicated to Bestselling books.

Career Services Library

The Career Services Library is comprised of books related to career opportunities.

A wide variety of books related to careers.

CD Collection

Briggs Library CD collection includes music of various genres and styles from classical to jazz. The spoken word CDs are in the general collection.

Visit the music cd collection.

Curriculum Library

Curriculum Library is to serve the needs of the students and faculty of the Division of Education and to provide resources for current and prospective teachers.

Example of children's materials available at Briggs Library.

DVD Collection

The Briggs Library DVD collection includes documentaries that support the curriculum as well as a variety of feature and entertainment titles representing numerous genres and languages.

DVD Collection

Faculty Learning and Teaching Collection

The Faculty Learning and Teaching Collection includes resources on a wide variety of topics related to higher education, pedagogy and the teaching profession.

Collection for teaching and higher education topics

Journal Collection

Briggs Library subscribes to thousands of electronic and print journals.

Display of current periodicals and scholarly journals for patron use.

Little Magazines Collection

Donated by retired Professor Richard Grant, Briggs Library's collection of Little Magazines is shelved in the McGinnis Room.

Browse our Little Magazine collection.

Music Scores Collection

Briggs Library purchases and houses music scores for solos and small ensemble performance.  

Example of music score.

Paulette Fairbanks Molin Collection

Briggs Library is honored to have been chosen in 2015 by Paulette Fairbanks Molin to receive a collection of scholary materials that represent her lifetime work as a noted author, educator, and museum consultant. 

Poetry Collection

Contemporary poetry written in English and published since 1900 reside in the McGinnis Room.

Pounce the Cougar selects a poetry book.

Rare Book Collection

The Rare Book collection is located on the fourth floor of Briggs Library.

Example of rare books available at Briggs Library.

Reference Collection

Briggs Library has a wide assortment of reference materials available for use. 

Reference books available for use within Briggs Library.

UMM Archives

Briggs Library Archives serves as the institutional memory of the campus. 

UMM Students Seated for a Meeting in Edson Hall

UMM Scholarship Collection

Briggs Library is proud to identify and collect works created by UMM faculty, staff, and students. 

Scholarship collection

Video Collection (VHS)

Briggs Library owns a wide variety of VHS video tapes, representing a wide variety of genres as well as documentaries used to support courses.

Video collection on VHS tapes

West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center

The West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center collects documents and records of eight counties in West Central Minnesota.

Historical books for the West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center.

West Central School of Agriculture

Located on the fourth floor of Briggs Library in room 420, this collection represents the records and materials of the West Central School of Agriculture.

WCSA Students and Outdoor Booth on Mall

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