Archives & Special Collections

Collection highlights and information about IWU's Tate Archives & Special Collections

IWU’s longest-running student publication

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Meg Miner

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 2003 and cover 1955-2003. Issues published since 2004 are available from the same link and are full text searchable within their individual pdfs.

A new project to make The Argus fully searchable is currently under way. Stay tuned for news on its progress!

Ecology Action Center Collection

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Meg Miner

In October 2006, we opened a new collection for primary source materials: The Ecology Action Center Collection of organizational records. The group began as one of the first not-for-profit recycling centers in Illinois in 1971. Today, it continues to work with the three local governments (McLean County, Town of Normal, and City of Bloomington) to increase recycling and environmental awareness for business and community members.