Millersville University Archives & Special Collections

As part of the Archives’s efforts to engage our community with historical research, we’re leading a small group of Millersville students to visit the For the Peoples: Native Voices & Beyond symposium in Carlisle, Pennsylvania! We’re learning all about Lancaster’s Indigenous past and present, among many other interesting, important, and powerful topics!

Archives & Special Collections recently partnered with the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, funded by Amateur Radio Digital Communications and hosted on the Internet Archive, to digitize and make accessible early records from WIXQ FM and its precursor, WMSR AM. Enjoy perusing through early aspects of college radio at Millersville: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22WIXQ%22&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22collegeradio%22.

Millersville’s Archives & Special Collections is hiring students for the Fall 2025 semester! We have open positions to join our team of student employees as Archives Student Assistants. The Archives Student Assistant position offers hands-on experience assisting with projects in the Archives. To learn more about the position and how to apply, please see the Archives & Special Collections Student Jobs page: https://library.millersville.edu/archives/hiring.

This month's President's Updates from Millersville University includes a piece highlighting the work of research interns working with Archives & Special Collections at Millersville University Library. Read about the work of the Millersville Institutional Legacy Initiative in uncovering and sharing more about the University's past!

President's Updates Reflecting on the past few winters at the 'Ville, we've enjoyed rather mild and stable weather. Unfortunately, the trend has turned, and the weather of the past two months has been less predictable and rapidly changing.  Snowstorms, ice storms and bitter cold snaps have been the norm...

Help us preserve Millersville's history for today, tomorrow, and the future with a gift to the Archives & Special Collections Discretionary Fund! On this One Day Give for University, you can help us as we continue to support student learning and alumni memories. Your gift helps us defray the costs of our fantastic collections, and provides more opportunities for the University community and beyond to learn and explore!

We're participating in the Valentine's Day Trail! Students, stop by the Reading Room on the 8th floor of McNairy Library to grab some candy and see our pop-up exhibit celebrating items of love from our collections!

Join Archivist Frank Vitale and Dr. Nicole Pfannenstiel for the Exploring Challenging Legacies series' Spring 2025 book club! We will be reading "Braiding Sweetgrass," and early registrants will receive a free copy of the book along with some additional materials!

Zoom meetings Feb 25th and March 18th 6-7:30pm. Register: https://forms.office.com/r/6M6gqa7kWK.

Join Dr Nicole Pfannenstiel and Professor Frank Vitale for a Spring 2025 ECL Book Club. Students, faculty, staff welcome to join the Book Club. Together we will read ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’. Zoom meetings Feb 25th and March 18th 6-7:30pm. Register: https://forms.office.com/r/6M6gqa7kWK. Books will be provided to the first 20 who register.

Our Archivist, Frank, just published an article in the InterAgency Journal, published by the Arthur D. Simons Center for Ethical Leadership and Interagency Cooperation! The article, co-authored with Dr. Reznick at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), discusses how federal grant-making agencies and research libraries can partner to further their shared goals and enhance their public impact. You can find it available via open access here:https://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IAJ-14-2-pg17-31.pdf

The Millersville Institutional Legacy Initiative, part of the Archives & Special Collections, held a documentary screening of Matt Barcaro's "The Lost Children of Carlisle" along with a Q&A discussion of the University's links to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School - important work all around!

Come see some of the research work that the Archives & Special Collections has been supporting at this documentary screening on Saturday!

What a cool opportunity! 🎥

I’m looking forward to screening my documentary, “The Lost Children of Carlisle” THIS SATURDAY at Millersville University.

It’s free and open to the public, so please stop by!