Yet, founding president Charles Duncan McIver spoke adamantly of the "Library we are to have," and he personally donated many of his books to begin the school's first reference collection.

Other faculty members followed suit, donating or lending books from their personal libraries in order to create a collection for student use.

The school's book collection continued to grow, and, in 1896, Annie Florence Petty was hired as State Normal's first librarian.

Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to come to the Harold Schiffman Music Library to listen to and view sound and video materials and to check out books and scores.

The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is located on the second floor of the Library's main wing.

SCUA houses rare books, photographs of the campus, performing arts collections, artifacts and textiles relating to student life, and archival and manuscript materials that document the history of the University.

Among major authors represented with significant holdings are George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Lois Lenski, Randall Jarrell, T. E. Lawrence, Rupert Brooke, and Charles Dickens.

Besides paper records, this collection includes extensive holdings of photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, postcards, artifacts, and textiles.

SCUA also is the steward of two internationally known collections: the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project and the largest holding of cello music-related materials.

NC DOCKS is a cooperative effort to make the scholarly output of the University of North Carolina System more available to the world.

The Digital Projects Office, a part of the Electronic Resources and Information Technologies (ERIT) Department, is responsible for coordinating digital preservation and access projects both within the library and for external keepers of unique historical material, including UNCG faculty and local cultural heritage organizations.

The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives are located on the second and third floors of the Library's main 1950 building.

Records of the past Chancellors, a collection of over 50,000 images dating from the 1890s, and University and student publications are among the more than two million items preserved in the Archives.

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project documents the female experience in the U.S. Armed Forces through letters, papers, photographs, published materials, uniforms, artifacts, and oral histories.

Housed and maintained in the University Archives in Jackson Library, the materials are a research collection for scholars of military history as well as women's studies.

Among the cellists represented are Elizabeth Cowling, Maurice Eisenberg, Bernard Greenhouse, Fritz Magg, Rudolf Matz, Luigi Silva, Janos Scholz, and Laszlo Varga.

In addition to circulating books both the Jackson and Schiffman Libraries check out films, CDs and technology including laptops, iPads, video cameras, voice recorders and calculators.

The Libraries maintain extensive LibGuides, online research guides, to provide easy access to resources in academic disciplines and other subject areas.