Category Archives: General Information

NEH Grant will help NKU Preserve Region’s History

Northern Kentucky University has received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections planning grant to evaluate the environmental climate in which the W. Frank Steely Library’s Eva G. Farris Special Collections and Schlachter University Archives stores … Continue reading

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Celebrating Dreams: The Presidency of James C. Votruba

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Photography students use University Archives photos in creative exhibit

Last November, students in Professor Chris Smith’s Applied Photography class visited the Schlachter University Archives for a creative assignment. “Because of the radical changes in the appearance of NKU from 1968 to the present,” Professor Smith “thought a ‘re-photographic study’ … Continue reading

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U.S. Constitution Day Event: Sept. 14, 2011 at 7pm

The United States Constitution has withstood the test of time for more than two centuries as our nation’s charter of government and the guarantor of our liberties. In 2005, a federal law sponsored by Senator Robert Byrd declared September 17 … Continue reading

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David Mack Exhibit

A rich, diverse body of artwork from David Mack, a Northern Kentucky University alumnus, will soon be on exhibit in the Schlachter Archives’ reading room located on the 1st floor of Steely Library in room 106. David Mack graduated from … Continue reading

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Welcome to Special Collections and Archives, Northern Kentucky University

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located in room 106 on the first floor of Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University. The Department collects, indexes and preserves documents and artifacts related to Northern Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky, and the Tri-state … Continue reading

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