Thursday January 03, 2013
Library Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Eastern Michigan University Library
University Archives Mission
President's Home 1893-1933
The University Archives, established as a “bona fide function of the University” by President Harold Sponberg in February 1970, has as its core mission the following purposes:
- To appraise, collect, preserve, arrange, and describe the official records of historical value of the University; to make intellectually accessible and physically available for administrative and research use; and, to assist in preserving and making accessible other papers, records, and materials relating to the history of the University.
- To provide appropriate facilities for the retention of such records, and adequate staff to provide for access to them.
- To provide information services that will assist the faculty and administrative staff in the operation of the University.
- To serve as a resource and laboratory to stimulate and nourish creative teaching and learning.
- To facilitate efficient records management.
- To support historical research and scholarship by making available and encouraging the use of its collections by members of the University and the community at large.
Revised: November 2003
Location
Room 310, Bruce T. Halle Library
Hours:
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. See library hours for exceptions.
Contact
Email: lib_archives@emich.edu * Phone: 734-487-2673
