The Milner Metadata team presented at the 2024 Core Forum held from November 14-16 in Minneapolis.
Milner Metadata team attends ALA Core Forum 2024
Unit: Digital Collections
Exploring digital humanities tools to map the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show
Leveraging linked data and digital humanities tools and methods provided a rich opportunity to showcase Milner digital collections and digital scholarship in a Fall 2024 project completed by an intern in the Special Collections department.
Milner Library launches P.T. Barnum digital collection
Milner Library is proud to announce the publication of the P.T. Barnum Letters and Ephemera, a digital collection drawn from Special Collections’ world-class circus holdings.
Where the data may roam: Bringing wild west performers to Wikidata
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show had an extraordinarily diverse cast, including Cody’s friends and family, Native Americans, and immigrants from all over. Instead of focusing on the well-documented Buffalo Bill himself, my supervisor and I decided to find a way to showcase the many other people involved.
Explore Illinois State Normal University students’ World War I stories at Milner Library November 12
Join Digitization Center Coordinator Karmine Beecroft and Metadata Librarian Emily Baldoni at Milner Library’s 6th Floor Southwest Learning Space on November 12 from noon to 1 p.m. for “Voices From the Trenches: Digitizing and Visualizing the World War I ISNU Service Records.”
Milner Library newsletters join institutional repository
A total of 395 issues of internal and public-facing newsletters created by Milner Library between 1967 and today have been added to Illinois State University’s institutional repository, ISU ReD.
Milner Library digitizes historical State of the University Addresses
Assembled from published pamphlets, archival records, cached webpages, livestream videos, and Word documents saved by Illinois State University’s director of media relations and strategic communications, this collection tells the administrative story of Illinois State University over the past 57 years and paints a vivid picture of the accomplishments of its faculty, staff, and students.
Milner Metadata team attends DLF 2024
The Milner Metadata team attended and presented at the Digital Libraries Federation Forum conference held July 30-31 at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing.
Papers of Illinois State Normal University’s first president now online
While Illinois State Normal University’s first president, Charles Edward Hovey (1827-1897), served in that role for only four years (1857-1861), his impact on the campus can still be felt to this day. The documents and objects he left behind are likewise scarce but highly meaningful.
Sunset Hill architectural records added to Ewing Family Collection
The Milner Library Digitization Center adds to a growing corpora of documents and photographs created or collected by the Ewing family, starting with records dating to the construction of their iconic Bloomington home, Sunset Hill.
