News and Events

Need Research Help?

Need research help? Steely Librarians are ready to help with your research questions as you finish your final projects. You can chat with us online, stop in, or schedule a discussion. Get in touch with us!

Library Hours After Thanksgiving Break

The library will continue with regular hours after classes move to the virtual format after Thanksgiving break. While we will not have extended study hours for finals this year due to COVID-19, we look forward to offering them next year. You can view our building hours here. Have a restful and healthy break, Norse!

University Press of Kentucky Books - Now Available

Access more than 1,000 eBook titles from the University Press of Kentucky, incuding authors from NKU. Subjects include arts, humanities, business, education, law, medicine, social sciences, science and technology. Access the ebooks here or through the library's full list of databases.

Join Our Team!

Join our Team! We are looking for a few talented professionals to join our team. Please see the opportunities here and apply today.

Library Closed on Election Day

The library is closed on Election Day, November 3rd. We are encouraging our library staff to GEARUP to VOTE along with the rest of our campus. See our top 10 tips on being information literate in preparation for the 2020 Election. Our normal building hours will resume on November 4th.

Black Thought and Culture - Database Trial Available

Black Thought and Culture is a database that provides approximately 100,000 pages of nonfiction writings by over 1,000 American black leaders. Approximately 20% of the items are previously unpublished [...]

New Primary Source Materials

New resources have been added to the Digital Repository, including 28 oral histories or transcripts from the Garrett Collection interviews with rural Kentuckians in Appalachia. Also, the Bruce Family Papers (a large, 19th century slave owning Covington, KY family involved in business, banking, agriculture and the Roebling Bridge construction) discuss aspects of slavery, the Civil War, health including cholera out breaks.

New Newspaper Resource

Steely Library now provides access to Nexis Uni, an authoritative and comprehensive research tool for news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 [...]

New Charging Stations

Charging your phone or tablet is now available and easily done at Steely Library through our new Mobile Power Ports. Each portable, lightweight unit can power three users simultaneously with USB-C and USB-A devices. Please visit the Public Services desk on the 3rd floor to check out a unit for 2 hours.

Textbook Affordability Program

We are excited to announce Steely Library in collaboration with other NKU campus stakeholders, including the University Connect and Persist (UCAP) program, implemented a campus-wide pilot textbook program beginning fall semester 2020. Fifteen digital textbooks were purchased and integrated into Steely’s library catalog [...]

GEARUP to Vote

Top Ten Tips & Resources to be Information Literate for the 2020 Election - Election season is underway, bringing with it an endless amount of information that will spread across social media feeds, among other outlets [...]

Board of Student Stakeholders Selected

Student voices matter! The Board of Student Stakeholders (BOSS) is a committee of NKU students who meet monthly to provide input on library services, policies, collections, spaces, programming, and technology. Members [...]

IPA Source Now Available

Steely Library provides access to IPA Source, a collection of over 12,000 literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate [...]