Institution Bios

Illinois State University

Illinois State University serves 20,502 graduate and undergraduate students, 1,180 faculty, 1,142 civil service staff and 792 administrative/professional employees. Hundreds of international students bring their global perspectives to Illinois State. We serve the citizens of Illinois and beyond. Illinois State University will continue to occupy a unique position of strength and visibility among the institutions of higher education in Illinois, the nation, and the world.

Illinois Wesleyan University

Founded in 1850, Illinois Wesleyan has grown to become one of the nation's leading liberal arts institutions. The University enrolls just over 2,000 undergraduates from across the nation and around the globe and our graduates can be found in all 50 states and 52 countries.

The Ames Library opened in 2002 and is staffed by eight tenure track librarians, nine paraprofessionals, and 75 undergraduate student assistants.

Northern Illinois University

The Regional History Center at Northern Illinois totals 10,900 linear feet and encompasses 3 collections: The University Archives, Regional Collections, and the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD). These first two collections are actively growing and continue to receive an ever-increasing number of donations in electronic form. Currently, the majority of these electronic media are printed, and both the storage device and the analog copy are added to the collection. If the material is a born-digital record it is stored on a library's server in a loosely systematic method. We recognize that these is not sustainable practices, but have not yet implemented new policies.

Existing audio-visual content is slowly being digitized as a DVD or stored on a library server. We also continue to digitize our own photographs and parts of collections to share with our patrons, yet we only have the library's server and a disjointed file naming structure. Nearly all are in JGP or TIFF formats.

Content digitized through our library's Digital Initiatives Department are available for patrons via their website. Most digitized photographs are available for viewing on Flickr, but the archived copy, as well as any other collected born-digital material, is not available for public access.