Mission and Scope of the NMC Archives Collection

The Northwestern Michigan College Archives is charged with the responsibility of appraising, collecting, organizing, describing, preserving, and making available for research and reference use those official College records and those ancillary records of the College community of sufficient historical, legal, fiscal, and/or administrative value to warrant permanent preservation.

The Northwestern Michigan College Archives strives to provide adequate facilities for the retention and preservation of official college records and to promote knowledge and understanding of the origins, aims, programs, and goals of the College. It provides information services that will assist the operation of the College in addition to serving research and scholarship by making available and encouraging use of its collection by members of the College and the community at large.

The College Archives also appraises, collects, organizes, describes, preserves, and makes available for research and reference use records of the Grand Traverse Region, individuals and organizations not directly connected with Northwestern Michigan College should the subject matter of the collection be relevant to the collecting interest and within the resources of the College Archives.