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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Women in 1917-1919 were heavily involved in the war effort. They served on the homefront sewing clothes, gathering supplies, and even went overseas to help in Europe. Julia Scott Vrooman was one of several women affiliated with Illinois State Normal University featured in ISNU’s World War I service records collection who experienced the horrors of war as she traveled from camp to camp with her jazz band.
Women in 1917-1919 were heavily involved in the war effort. They served on the homefront sewing clothes, gathering supplies, and more, and some went overseas to help in Europe. Ellen Babbitt was one of several ISNU women featured in the ISNU WWI Service Records collection who experienced the horrors of war while helping mothers and orphaned children.
John Walker Duff (1888-1974) was the second of seven children born to Peter C. and Fannie E. (Walker) Duff in Normal, Illinois. A track and football star while a student at Normal High School, Duff was drafted into World War I at the tail end of the conflict.
The World War I Illinois State Normal University Service Records collection is filled with stories of heroism from ISNU students and staff, collected by our first librarian, Ange Milner. Milner also collected files from Black students who participated in the war effort in America and in Europe, and who faced the terrors of war while not be treated as equals from their superior officers and other white soldiers.
