If You're Goin' My Way Exhibit Opens
‘If You're Goin' My Way: Getting Around UNO' exhibit runs through May 8, 2024, on the first floor of Criss Library.
- published: 2024/03/01
- contact: Amy Schindler - Archives and Special Collections
- email: acschindler@unomaha.edu
Whether you drive, carpool, take a bus, ride your bike, skateboard, or walk, traveling to and around campus is part of everyone’s day. The new display in Archives and Special Collections on the first floor of Criss Library highlights some of those past transportation options.
The display tells the story of past travel to campus for students and employees via streetcar, bus, automobile, and other means and features historical parking maps. On view are mass transit advertisements from the time of World War II that educated riders as part of the war effort to marshall resources for people working in war industries.
The evolution of campus parking rules and permits are also on view along with past shuttle services available on campus. For example, before the redevelopment of Ak-sar-ben from a race track and coliseum to the present-day Aksarben Village mixed-use development and Scott Campus, UNO used the race track’s parking lots to provide remote parking for students and employees.
The exhibit is on display in UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections, located on the first floor of Criss Library, and is open to the public during normal Library hours from February 5 through May 8, 2024. The exhibit was curated by Amy C. Schindler, Director of Archives and Special Collections.
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