Collections and Resources

• Collection Overview
  Miller Nichols Library has information resources in all formats to support UMKC undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. These collections are supplemented by access agreements with libraries, consortia, and external databases and information systems.
• Music/Media Collections
  The Music/Media Library contains books on music, scores (printed music), recordings, videos, slide sets, kits, and other audio-visual material.
• Special Collections
  A vital resource for UMKC students, faculty, researchers, and visiting scholars from throughout the United States and around the globe. Visitors have an opportunity to enhance their research through the examination of a range of original materials including rare books and manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, broadsides, diaries, and music scores.
• Westermann Medieval Studies Collection
  An important resource focusing on the Middle Ages, about 410 A.D. to 1400 AD, from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. The collection contains works from Western Europe, including England, France, Germany, Italy and the Mediterranean regions.
• Marr Sound Archives
  A unit of the Special Collections Department, the Marr Sound Archives collects sound recordings in a variety of formats. The focus of the collection is the American experience as reflected in recorded sound.
• Government Publications
  Miller Nichols Library has collections of both U.S. federal and Missouri state documents.
• Microfilm and Microfiche
  Newspapers, magazines and journals, reports, government publications, and specialized collections including the Presidential Studies Collection.
• Online Exhibits and Digitization Projects
  The Miller Nichols Library Exhibition Committee has placed a number of exhibits online. Many are an extension of traditional exhibits once available for viewing in the Miller Nichols Library.
• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
  UMKC's membership in this consortium provides access to resources for persons researching in the social sciences.
• Access to Non-UMKC Collections
  Resources available for getting materials not available at UMKC Libraries.
• Online Full-Text Resources
• MERLIN Library Catalog
  The MERLIN Library Catalog is the online catalog for UMKC. It also includes holdings of the other three University of Missouri campuses.
  • Link to the MERLIN Library Catalog
  • Guide to the MERLIN Library Catalog
• MOBIUS
  MOBIUS is a consortium of academic libraries in Missouri. The Union Catalog facilitates interlibrary borrowing.
  • Link to the MOBIUS Union Catalog
  • Guide to the MOBIUS Union Catalog