Collection highlights and information about IWU’s Tate Archives & Special Collections
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students, Unexplored collections on Aug 24th, 2009
What is a finding aid? Basically, it’s our version of a catalog. It helps archivists and patrons find out what material we hold and where it lives.
For a number of years we’ve been trying to get an interactive, 2.0 type of finding aid online. We’re still trying to make that dream a reality, but in [...]
Posted in Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students on May 2nd, 2009
The Ames Library’s Digital Initiatives Team launched IWU’s electronic record storage and access system in fall 2008. Digital Commons serves as the central location for outstanding student work, faculty scholarship, University records, and campus history. It holds 3,552 works to date. To launch this repository, the archives supplied research honors theses and scores dating back to the 1960s, as [...]
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students, Unexplored collections on Apr 2nd, 2009
So far I’ve been promoting special collections material in this blog, but many parts of the archives contain chances for research, too! Campus life and growth since 1850 are reflected in records containing the topics below. Don’t be deceived by the short list — it represents approx 800 linear feet of records!
1 : Board of Trustees
2 : Office [...]
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Faculty, Students on Mar 17th, 2009
I will add content to this blog a couple of times a week, and an archives student assistant is taking on the task of scanning and adding photos. We created the “Help ID Photos!” page as a place viewers can see and comment on images we have little or no information about.
In summary, the content on [...]
Posted in Campus Administration, Campus units on Mar 3rd, 2009
I am conducting interviews across campus to describe and assess current records creation and storage practices on campus. The process and potential outcomes were reviewed by the President Wilson’s Cabinet in Fall 2008. If you have a pressing need to discuss these issues, feel free to contact me for an on site visit!
My goal is to make sure the [...]
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