Reference librarians are ready to help students use InfoLinks, the CD-ROM databases, and networked electronic resources. In addition, librarians offer orientation sessions and lectures on research methods to various classes in all the colleges on campus. The Government Documents Department in Mullins Library assists library users in finding government information. The library is a depository for publications of the federal government and the state of Arkansas. In addition, the library archives selected documents from other states, foreign countries, the United Nations, and other international organizations.
Information is available in print, microform, or electronic formats.
The Periodicals Room houses equipment for photocopying microforms and offers check-out of microfilm readers for personal use. The Special Collections Division in Mullins Library acquires and preserves material for research in the history, literature, and culture of Arkansas and surrounding regions. Through this division, scholars have access to a rich assortment of books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, maps, and manuscript collections to support their work. Among the more than 14,000 linear feet of manuscript collections available are the papers of J. William Fulbright, David H. Pryor, Dale Bumpers, Joe T. Robinson, Hattie Caraway, John Paul Hammer-schmidt, Ed Bethune, Beryl Anthony, Brooks Hays, Orval Faubus, Jeff Davis, Daisy Bates, Edward Durell Stone, William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, John Gould Fletcher, Frederick Lee Liebolt, James M. Hanks, Ruth Polk Patterson, Vance Randolph, Elizabeth Huckaby, Alfred E. Smith, Mary D. Hudgins and records of organizations such as the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the Council of International Exchange of Scholars, Peace Links, and Southland College. The division also houses the library's Rare Book Collection and other material.