The Vidette Newspaper Archives at Milner Library holds the digitized pages of Illinois State University’s campus newspaper. The Vidette Archives is a joint project made possible by University Archives and Milner Library’s Digitization Center, along with help from an outside company Veridian. The archives currently contains 4,622 issues with 47,055 pages ranging from 1888 to 1980. The Vidette Archives is used for a variety of purposes including research, class projects, and by alumni wanting to find classmates or relieve memories of their time on campus.
There are many reasons the current digitized issues stop at 1980. The amount of content, the size of issues, and the frequency of publications increased greatly beginning in 1981, which makes the digitization process more complex. For these reasons, the next phases of the project will be broken up by decades.
Unfortunately, newspaper material wasn't made to last much longer than the time it took to read the paper. While University Archives has the physical and microfilm copies of all Vidette issues, these physical copies suffer from wear and tear, and are not as acccessible as their online counterparts. During Birds Give Back 2021, help us raise funds to digitize issues from 1981 to 1990!
Rank | Area of Support | Gifts |
---|---|---|
1 | Multicultural Center | 390 |
2 | Athletics | 355 |
3 | LGBTQ+ Student Support | 284 |
4 | Communication | 215 |
5 | Redbird Esports | 117 |
6 | Accounting | 79 |
7 | Student Engagement | 77 |
8 | WGLT | 73 |
9 | Student Affairs Scholarships | 72 |
10 | Center for Civic Engagement | 66 |
11 | Support MCN priorities | 60 |
12 | Family and Consumer Sciences | 59 |
13 | Illinois Shakespeare Festival | 59 |
14 | School of Teaching and Learning | 59 |
15 | U-High | 52 |
16 | Student Scholarships | 51 |
17 | Alumni Association Scholarship | 50 |
18 | ISUPD Community Engagement Unit | 50 |
19 | College of Business Excellence Fund | 47 |
20 | Special Education | 47 |
21 | Ewing Cultural Center | 44 |
22 | School of Music | 42 |
23 | Black Colleagues Association Scholarship | 39 |
24 | Gamma Phi Circus | 38 |
25 | School of Theatre and Dance | 38 |
26 | Kinesiology and Recreation | 35 |
27 | CAST Student Persistence Fund | 34 |
28 | Vidette Digitization Project | 34 |
29 | Chemistry | 32 |
30 | Criminal Justice Sciences | 30 |
31 | Politics and Government | 28 |
32 | Finance, Insurance, and Law | 28 |
33 | Horticulture Center | 27 |
34 | Agriculture | 25 |
35 | Wonsook Kim CFA General Fund | 25 |
36 | Metcalf | 24 |
37 | Friends of the Arts | 24 |
38 | Educational Administration & Foundations | 23 |
39 | Technology | 22 |
40 | Information Technology | 22 |
41 | Marketing | 21 |
42 | Health Sciences | 21 |
43 | College of Arts and Sciences Funds | 20 |
44 | Biological Sciences | 19 |
45 | Wonsook Kim School of Art | 18 |
46 | Military Science - ROTC | 18 |
47 | International House | 18 |
48 | Pay it Forward Business Scholarship | 17 |
49 | History | 17 |
50 | More ways to support Milner Library | 17 |
51 | College of Education Persistence Awards | 16 |
52 | Creative Technologies Program | 16 |
53 | Mathematics | 14 |
54 | Sociology and Anthropology | 13 |
55 | CAST additional priorities | 12 |
56 | Communication Sciences and Disorders | 12 |
57 | Geography, Geology and the Environment | 11 |
58 | Latinx Alumni Network Scholarship | 11 |
59 | Physics | 9 |
60 | Social Work | 9 |
61 | Psychology | 9 |
62 | Management and Quantitative Methods | 9 |
63 | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | 8 |
64 | English | 8 |
65 | The Graduate School | 8 |
66 | University Galleries | 6 |
67 | Economics | 4 |
68 | International Business | 3 |
69 | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 2 |
70 | Latin American and Latino/a Studies | 1 |
71 | Marian H. Dean Legacy Scholarship | 0 |
72 | Philosophy | 0 |
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