Collection News - December 2006
Nonviolent Peacemaking and Victims of Violence and Wars
Supported by an endowment established by the Omni Center for Peace, Justice, & Ecology and by James Bennett, U of A professor emeritus, the Nonviolent Peacemaking and Victims of Violence and Wars Collection contains 130 items including scholarly, popular, and primary sources. The collection is designed to raise awareness and inspire research about nonviolent peacemaking, victims of violence and wars, whistleblowers, and investigative reporters.
You can browse the complete list of available titles by search the subject Nonviolent Peacemaking and Victims of Violence and Wars in InfoLinks, the Libraries' online catalog.
Or, check out these selected titles:
War and slavery in Sudan. Jok Madut Jok (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). HT1381 .J65 2001
Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace. Geoffrey Kemp and Jeremy Pressman. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997). DS119.76 .K36 1997
Landmine Monitor Report (Human Rights Watch, 2002). UG490 .L363
A Time for Peace Between Muslims and the West. Judith I. Shadzi. (R&E Publishers, 1994). BP172 .S45 1994
Eyewitness to a Genocide :The United Nations and Rwanda. Michael Barnett. (Cornell University Press, 2002). DT450.435 .B38 2002
Other Named Collections
Want to browse other donated or special book collections? The Libraries have several dozen special subject headings that serve as "virtual bookplates" by pulling together all the titles collected by a specific person, family, or organization. Below are a few of these special headings:
- Billy James Hargis Library
- Brian Wilkie collection
- C.J. Finger collection
- Daisy Bates collection
- David Malone collection
- Dr. R.N. Maddox collection
- Fayetteville Women's Library collection
- Fletcher collection
- Fred Isaac mystery literature collection
- James D. Bales collection
- James G. Kenefick collection
- Kenneth L. Brown collection
- Mary Hudgins collection
- Mrs. Duncan Eaves collection
- Mrs. James Keddie, Jr. collection
- Otto Rayburn collection
- Owen collection
- Robert Lee Morris collection
- Robert M. Crisp, Jr. collection
- Tom Feathers collection
Additional collection headings have been developed to allow users to locate all items on special topics. Some examples of these subjects are:
A complete list of all local collection subjects can be found in PDF format on our StaffWeb.
Newly Processed Manuscript Collections
The following manuscript collections now have finding aids available online:
