Other Collections
Corporate Annual Reports
Annual reports beginning in 1975 from all companies listed on the New
York and American Stock Exchanges are available on microfiche in the
Ablah Library. Reports beginning in 1978 of selected over-the-counter
companies are also available on microfiche. The microfiche collections
include 10-Ks and proxy statements for all New York and AMEX listed
companies, plus selected over-the-counter companies. The library also
has paper copies of the annual reports of many Fortune 500 companies.
For assistance in identifying annual reports, call or ask at the
Reference Desk, extension 3584, refer to the Library handout titled Locating
Corporate Annual Reports in Ablah Library, or go to http://library.wichita.edu/business/annrpt.htm.
Children's Literature Collection
The Children's Literature Collection supports courses in children's
literature, adolescent literature, and multi-cultural literature that
are offered by the College of Education. Faculty, students, staff, and
special borrowers and their families are welcome to use the collection
as well. The books are found on the west side of the second floor of
Ablah Library. The collection includes over 14,000 titles for all ages
of children and features both classic and new titles for children.
Leisure
Reading Collection
The
Leisure Reading Collection is a collection of recent, well-received
fiction and non-fiction works intended to help support the leisure
reading needs of WSU faculty, staff, and students. It is located in the
Reserve Reading Room on the first floor of Ablah Library. The collection is not
intended to duplicate collections found in bookstores or public
libraries, but to provide a sampling of diverse titles with recreational
and educational value that are being read and discussed by members of
the WSU community. For information on the collection click
here.
Media Resources
Ablah Library houses the Libraries' video and DVD collections. These
collections are located in the Reserve area and are selected to
support the curriculum with a special emphasis on the performing arts.
All library titles have records in the Libraries' online catalog.
Map Collection
Selected geographical, political, geologic, and topgrpahic maps are
housed in the Reference Department on the first floor of Ablah
Library. A collection of early maps of Kansas is located in Special
Collections and can be accessed through
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/maps/index.asp.
Micromedia Collection
The collection consists of 1,096,000 items in microfilm, microfiche,
microcards, and microprints. Series and individual titles are listed
in the online catalog and in
special bibliographic tools in the Reference collection.
Back issues of selected newspapers and other materials in micro format
are housed in Reserves on the first floor. University Libraries has
readers and reader-printers. Copies may be made for 25 cents per page.
For assistance with this equipment, go to the Reserve Desk.
Music Scores and Recordings
The University Libraries' collections of
performance scores and sound recordings are housed in the Thurlow
Lieurance Memorial Music Library. Many of these holdings are listed in
the online
catalog; others are listed only in the card catalog in the Music
Library. Scores and sound recordings circulate to faculty only.
Newspaper Collection
University Libraries subscribes to a number of state, national, and
foreign newspapers and maintains them for a limited time in the
Reserve area of the Ablah Library, first floor. Ask at the Reserve
Desk for recent daily and Sunday issues. Back issues of selected
newspapers are listed in the online
catalog and are available in microfilm or through Internet links
to selected Kansas newspapers. Many other newspapers
are also available on the Internet via the Libraries' Website. Ask at
the Reference Desk or call extension 3584 for more information.
Reference Collection
Located on the first floor of Ablah Library, the Reference Collection
consists of major bibliographic tools and selected fact books. They
are arranged by Library of Congress classification and listed in the
online catalog located by "Ref" above the call numbers. The
Reference collection is non-circulating.
Shocker
Scholarship Festival Bibliography
Theses and Dissertations Collection
Theses and dissertations produced at Wichita State University are
housed in Special Collections and University Archives. Second copies
of many of these theses and dissertations are available in the
circulating collection on the second floor in the call number range
LD2667. They can be identified in the online catalog by author, title,
and subject.
