ISU Special Collections

10/18/2024

Hi, . Do your residents know the building is haunted? Find out what happened to previous students. Ask for filing cabinet 4, drawer 12: Blumberg Hall in the Folklore Collection. [Image is of text superimposed on a type-written account of "The Blumberg Baby", a spooky story about the building.]

10/04/2024

In the mood for scary stories? Try the Folklore Collection. Special Collections @ Indiana State University Walk-ins 1-4 Mon-Thurs or by Appointment | 3rd floor Cunningham Memorial Library. library.indianastate.edu/special

09/20/2024

Entire Cuban refugee families came to Indiana State in the 1960s to become Spanish language teachers in Indiana.

09/13/2024

Having trouble getting started? We can help you narrow down your topic, find primary sources, and cite things correctly. Make an appointment with today, or come in during our walk-in hours (1-4PM Mon-Thurs - 3rd floor Cunningham Memorial Library). [email protected]

09/11/2024

We remember. [Items from various collections related to the destruction of the World Trade Towers on September 11th, 2001.]

09/09/2024

09/06/2024

Did you know? Indiana State started out as a Normal school, a school for educating future teachers. http://omeka.indstate.edu/exhibits/show/childrenedu

09/02/2024

08/30/2024

We will be closed on Labor Day (02 Sept 2024) but you can still learn about the history of workers' rights. Click here to browse the Eugene V. Debs Collection in the University Archives (https://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/evdc). library.indianastate.edu. [Eugene V. Debs giving a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; https://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/isulib/id/8763/rec/123]

08/21/2024

very mindful, very demure, not doing too much (images from the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Special Collections Reference Collection)

08/19/2024

"brat but it's sifting through a cart full of hollinger metal edge archival file boxes" against a background of Special Collections Reference items with covers of bright green (I know I'm late to the party but let me have this one okay thanks)

08/12/2024

Department of Special Collections. You never know what you'll find when you visit us... Medieval manuscripts were often recycled as binding material in early modern books.