The NDSU Archives are scheduled to reopen March 24. The archives, which have been closed since November, are now housed at the West Building, located at 3551 7th Ave. N. The hours will be 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Summer hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The new location includes a larger reading room, a temperature- and humidity-controlled storage area for archival materials, two new digital microfilm machines, access for patrons to the NDSU Libraries rare book collection and a lobby area with a snack machine.

The NDSU Archives has approximately 3,000 manuscript collections and university records and 700,000 photographs documenting the history and development of North Dakota and NDSU. The reading room contains more than 23,000 books and microfilm reels relating the North Dakota, such as county, community, church, family and business histories, general works, periodicals, atlases and maps. Books relating to NDSU include yearbooks from 1907-80, course catalogs, bulletins, histories, periodicals and budgets.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.