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: Milner Library
New collections add international primary sources
Milner Library recently acquired four collections of digital primary sources to support teaching and learning in history and throughout the humanities.
Digital scholarship needs at Illinois State
Feedback from survey participants will inform Milner Library’s support for digital scholarship.
Graduating Redbirds: Bone Scholar arrived a ‘teenager,’ leaving an ‘adult’
Jayden Wilburn-Johnson is among the Redbirds graduating this December.
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 announces applications for its next Circus and Allied Arts Fellowship
Milner Library at Illinois State University is accepting applications for the 2025 Circus and Allied Arts Collection Fellowship.
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.
Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS) notice of funding opportunity and call for Letters of Intent
A pilot program will support interdisciplinary research and creative scholarship teams.
This month in Illinois State University history: December
From the night Jackie Robinson played Illinois State to the birth of an ISU Athletics legend, historian Tom Emery explores this month in Illinois State University history.
An abolitionist view against slavery in the form of an ABC book in Special Collections
Children’s literature offers a window into the social and cultural values of a given time and place by revealing what children were meant to learn. Sometimes the messages conflict with one another, giving us a glimpse into the varying ideals that circulated (and of the adults who were vying to spread their version of ethical behavior to the younger generation). Children’s literature produced during the Abolitionist movement provides an excellent example of these schisms in values.
