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.
The survey was distributed in October 2023, and asked about general satisfaction, user confidence completing library-related tasks, amenities, services, library instruction, and collections. Milner Library’s Data Services team developed the survey and received 1,001 full and partial responses.
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.
Students who are accepted for an internship or are current interns at Milner Library are eligible to apply for the Kinzinger Scholarship for Milner Library Interns. Interested students should submit their application by July 15.
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.
Milner Library has entered into an agreement with the publishers Elsevier and Wiley to provide access to large collections of eBooks
Women in 1912-19 were heavily involved in the war effort. They served on the homefront sewing clothes, gathering supplies, etc., and some went overseas to help in Europe. Ada Adcock was one of several Illinois State Normal University women featured in ISNU’s World War I service records collection who experienced the horrors of war from the front lines.
Explore the World War I experiences of Illinois State Normal University (ISNU) students, faculty, staff, and alumni through letters, photographs, questionnaires, news clippings, postcards, and other primary sources preserved by Milner Library’s namesake, Angeline “Ange” Vernon Milner (1856-1928) in the World War I Illinois State Normal University Service Records.
