UAS Egan Library
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Egan Library supports scholarship, research, and creative activities at the University of Alaska Southeast by providing relevant, diverse, and well-maintained collections, by helping individuals evaluate and efficiently use those resources, and by creating a welcoming environment for all.
Library Services
Collections
Content in support of learning for UAS students and enrichment of our broader community. From ebooks and databases to streaming video and special collections centering Indigenous Knowledge, explore our collections.
Open Educational Resources
Students can't learn from textbooks they can't afford. Open Educational Resources (OER) are free alternatives to expensive textbooks. Runaway textbook costs on college campuses have become a major impediment to student success. See what UAS faculty and students are doing to address textbook affordability.
Borrowing & Access
Details on borrowing materials from Egan Library, partner libraries and accessing library accounts.
Learning Center
The Learning Center provides math and statistics support for student success and is located on the ground floor of the Egan Library.
Writing Center
Make an appointment with a Writing Specialist for help at every stage of the writing process.
Testing Center
Testing services including placement and professional tests offered for UAS and other UA university students, faculty, and residents enrolled with an educational institution who need testing support.
Featured Programs & Services
New Science Exhibit
On display Oct 23-Dec 20. The people you'll meet in New Science represent a range of backgrounds, career stages, and areas of work, but they share this: each has hit old walls and made an entirely new kind of door, pulling others through with them. On the other side? A world that’s inclusive instead of exclusive, diverse instead of uniform, and powered by the communities we hold. A better place, in other words, for science itself. This exhibit supports the UAS One Campus, One Book selection, Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron (Michif). Liboiron is an Indigenous and queer environmental scientist and educator promoting inclusive methodologies to challenge and change science. Can't make it? A virtual exhibit option is available.
One Campus, One Book
This academic year, Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron will serve as an entry point for discussions about challenging and changing science through anticolonial methodologies, good relations and inclusive practices.
"Research and change-making, scientific or otherwise, are always caught up in the contradictions, injustices, and structures that already exist, that we have already identified as violent and in need of change. This text is about moving within this complex and compromised terrain." -Max Liboiron
Indigenous Knowledge Collection
This special collection is named after Ḵaalḵáawu Cyril George, a Tlingit leader from the Deisheetaan Clan of Angoon, and partially funded by a Rasmuson Foundation grant. The Cyril George Collection honors Indigenous voices and Alaska Native Knowledge in a collection of over 3,000 volumes on the main floor of Egan Library.
Northwest Coast Native Art Collection
The collection features wood carvings, basketry, and Ravenstail weaving by renowned Alaskan artists including Edna Jackson, Steve Brown, Wayne Price, Nathan Jackson, Jennifer Brady Morales, Jan Criswell, Cheryl Samuel, Mary Lou King, Ray Watkins, Harry Calkins and Delores Churchill. The collection was acquired through the Alaska Percent for Art in Public Places program. Collection Guides are available at the entrance of the library for reference in self-guided tours.
