Announcing the Monmouth College Digital Collections!

Hewes Library is pleased to announce that online access to the Monmouth College Digital Collections.  The MC Digital Collections is an ongoing project, and to begin, Hewes Library has started with some of the archival publications of Monmouth College.  Hewes Library was awarded a grant to digitize two individual titles and two multi-volume series of college publications through the 2011 Book Digitization Grant provided by the Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI).  These materials have been scanned and currently hosted at the Internet Archive.

The Monmouth College Digital Collections is currently available through the Hewes Library website and links to digital publications can also be found in the Hewes Library catalog.  Titles currently available are:

• Monmouth College Ravelings, Student Yearbook, 1892 - 2002: Digital copies of all available years of the student yearbooks.  Ravelings ceased publication in 2002.
• Monmouth College Catalogs, 1857 - 2010: Digital copies of the catalogs contain course information, college information, and early documentation of the school.
• Monmouth College in the War of the Rebellion, 1911: A souvenir edition of the May 30, 1911, Monmouth College Oracle chronicling the parts of Monmouth College students and faculty during the Civil War.
• Diary of Alexander Blaikie, 1804 - 1885: Alexander Blaikie chronicled his travels as a missionary in Western Illinois and Chicago. The diary contains his observations on Presbyterians, accommodations, religious climate, plague and pioneer society. It was donated to Monmouth College by Alexander Blaikie on June 16, 1876.

Check back in the coming months!  We'll have the Monmouth College student newspapers available later this year.