The COVID-19 pandemic is easily the most global story of the 21st century, yet it is also an intensely local story with striking differences across cities and regions. 

Here's the third story in a series about the Andrew Ellicott Douglass films digitization project funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk grant.

Douglass, a University of Arizona professor, was the founder of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

Special Collections will be closed from Monday, December 21, 2020 through Friday, January 8, 2021.

During this time, we will not be available to accommodate reference queries or requests for duplications, digitization or permissions. We will do our best to respond to questions and requests received through December 18. If we need to delay work on any requests, our staff will let you know as soon as we can. Please contact us if you have questions. 

Founding Mothers: From the Ballot Box to the University is an online exhibition that recognizes and celebrates the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States and the 45th anniversary of the founding of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona.

Dear Special Collections community, we miss you!

This past spring, the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections was awarded a prestigious Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). 

Assistant librarian and archivist Trent Purdy and archival assistant Amanda Howard, the principal investigators for the $39,175 grant project, are digitizing and preserving 90 motion picture films from the collection of dendrochronologist Andrew Ellicott Douglass.

Current activism in response to police brutality reminds us of previous calls for justice in Tucson.

Tucson has had its share of protests echoing larger national movements, but perhaps its most iconic local protest was the occupation of the El Rio Golf Course. It was the summer of 1970, and the protest marked an intensification of efforts by the Manzo Area Council and residents of Tucson's west side to secure the creation of a neighborhood park.

The University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections has been awarded a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

Due to COVID-19 concerns and recommendations for social distancing, Special Collections will be closed starting Monday, March 16 until further notice. During this time, you can still contact us about our services. Please be aware that we will be unable to accommodate any visits or fulfill any reproduction requests during this closure. Permissions requests will be handled on a case by case basis and responses to reference queries may be delayed.

We are undergoing shelving improvements that may affect retrieval of the Health Sciences Library Special Collections books and manuscripts March 9-27. Please email us at LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizon.edu for updates or to make research arrangements.