Archives and also Maps and Federal Documents are serviced at this same desk, but these collections ARE NOT Special Collections. Often, students come to Level One with only a Dewey call number like 978 K52w. Copy the entire call number section of the catalog record. The Montana Room stack area is open to the public whenever the Mansfield Library is open. Note that most items in the M and S collections, but not in Special Collections, circulate normally, and are checked out on Level 3.
Oversize items are at the far end of the room.
Items in the M collection deal with Montana or the West. Guidelines have varied over the years, but fiction is not now normally added to the M Collection. On GrizNet these books are designated as S Coll.-Montana Room or as S Coll. These are Montana state and local government documents, housed and circulated and cataloged as are M Collection documents. In the Montana Room, the S Collection is nearest the glass wall, the M Collection is further away.