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 Alumni, Students, Unexplored collections on May 25th, 2009
Memorial Day seems like a good time to highlight military-related documents held at IWU. Students, alumni, faculty and administrators have served in all U.S. wars since IWU’s founding. Diaries, correspondence, service records and recollections are held in both our archives and special collections.
Examples of these documents include service applications of the WWII-era Nurse’s Cadet Corps, alumni responses [...]
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 Cultural Studies on Apr 13th, 2009
April is National Poetry Month, and I thought I’d mention a few places where poetry can be found in our vaults.
Special Collections
We have a growing collection of Beat Generation material. This is primarily poetry in book and magazine/journal review format but biographies and some criticism is held here, too. More of the primary and secondary source material is available in the main [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in Students on Mar 3rd, 2009
The Argus Digital Collection was our first large-scale digitization project. Illinois Wesleyan University’s newspaper The Argus has been published under student supervision continuously since 1894. For most of that time, it has been a weekly publication. This site went live with a browse-by-date interface in May 2003. Searchable sets of indexed terms became available in September [...]
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