Services for Truman Alumni
Ask-A-Librarian - Get
answers to quick factual questions. We check our e-mail daily. Please identify yourself as a Truman alum.
Books and Borrowing privileges
You can search the Library's Catalog from anywhere, on campus or off. Use it to see if we have the book or journal that you are looking for.
Truman Alumni who are Missouri residents can check out books after receiving a Community Borrowers Card. Click here for the Borrowing Policies for visitors/guests.
Free Electronic Books --- A list of Web sites which offer whole books online--for free!
Special
Collections is SPECIAL for Alumni
University Archives -Special Collections is the repository for the University Archives -- business papers, legal documents, official and unofficial publications (departmental papers, newsletters, presidential papers, etc.), student publications (The Index and old yearbooks) and much more.
Visit the History and Traditions page for school songs, building names and their origins, campus traditions and more. Also, check out the Big Fire online.
Some of the copying services we provide for alumni are:
Course descriptions from the Catalog
under which the student was working
Original photos or pictures from
yearbooks
Commencement recordings (audio from
mid 1980's, video from mid 1990's).
Click here for
what is available.
Articles from University publications:
Echo, Index, Nemoscope, Truman Today, etc.
Search the TRUDEX
for specific articles.
Articles from local newspapers.
Contact Special Collections for costs and other information.
Email: speccoll@truman.edu
-- Telephone: 660-785-7368
Databases
Due to licensing restrictions, access to periodical article
databases and electronic journals is available to alumni only when
on campus. We have created a list of
free
databases which you can use to
find articles in magazines and journals. For other databases,
click here for more free web links
to reference sites such as legal resources, encyclopedias,
dictionaries, etc.
Truman State University Databases
New Media Index ---
Truman's weekly newspaper, full-text online from August 29, 2002
(when classes in session)
TRUDEX ---The index
to Truman State University publications. Free to search.
Request copies of articles from Special Collections.
Government Documents
Pickler Memorial Library has been a federal depository since 1968.
This page links to sources like
GPO Access
(a service of the U.S. Government for
finding government publications on the Internet) and
Thomas
which helps you find legislative information. Links to both
federal, state, local, and international governmental web sites are
provided.
Tax Forms
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