• ISU Library to Close for Part of Winter Break! More information regarding the closing can be found here.
• New Collection! The finding aid for the John M. Bremner Papers, RS 9/9/59, is now online.
• The "Dirty Thirty"! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the "Dirty Thirty," Iowa State's 1959 Football Team. Film footage, images and documents about the "Dirty Thirty" are now available online.
• Rare Books! The Special Collections Department's copy of Quaestiones de veritate by Saint Thomas Aquinashas been rehoused into a cradle box that would support the book when in use and protect it when not in use. For more information regarding this project, please visit the following web site: http://www.bexxcaswell.com/veritate.html.

National Association of Conservation Districts Records, MS 460

The Special Collections Department houses the records of the National Association Conservation Districts. Soil conservation districts were first organized in the 1930s to combat soil erosion on the local level; each district had a plan that outlined the best use of the district's land and included long-term goals for preserving it. By February 1947, E. C. McArthur, supervisor and chair of a South Carolina conservation district, organized the National Association of Conservation Districts to provide better service to all districts. The organization coordinates the efforts of soil conservationists, farmers, and communities to provide ongoing conservation and development of soil, water, and related natural resources. Collection includes a history of the organization, legislation, correspondence, photographs, speeches, manuscripts, convention and conference programs, newspaper clippings, and committee minutes.
For more information about this collection, please see the finding aid.