Presidential History
Learn about ISU’s nineteen presidents, their diverse backgrounds, and the paths they took to become the leaders of Illinois’s first public university
Featured Collections
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Teaching Materials Center
The Teaching Materials Center is a “school library” within the larger academic library. It serves the needs of preservice teachers and the faculty who work with teacher education.
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ISU ReD
ISU ReD collects and provides open access to the scholarly and creative output of faculty, students, and staff at Illinois State University.
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Circus & Allied Arts
In addition to over 8,000 books, this collection includes photographs, posters, assorted media, and realia of circuses, sideshows, carousels, conjuring, music halls, and vaudeville.
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The Vidette Digital Archive
The Vidette Digital Archive holds the digitized pages of the campus newspaper covering issues from the first edition in February 1888 to May 1963.
All Collections by Topic
- Arts & Culture
- History & Education
- Science & Government
- Circus
- Illinois State University
- Answering the Call
- Art & Culture
- Browsing Books Collection
- Children’s Literature & Historical Textbook Collection
- Dissertations & Theses
- Ethnology Teaching Collection
- International Collection of Child Art
- ISU ReD: Research and eData
- Ken-Way Studio Collection
- Lois Lenski Doll Collection
- Multimedia Center DVD Collection
- Niiyama Poetic Japanese Pottery
- Normal Editions Workshop Archive
- Rare & Fine Collection
- A Seaman's Diary of World War I
- Anna Ropp Diaries
- Answering the Call
- Browsing Books Collection
- Buffalo Bill Letters
- Children’s Literature & Historical Textbook Collection
- Dissertations & Theses
- Ethnology Teaching Collection
- Illinois Regional Archives Depository
- Illinois State University Historical Video Series
- Illinois State University History Collection
- ISU ReD: Research and eData
- Ken-Way Studio Collection
- Lincoln Collection of H.K. Sage
- Multimedia Center DVD Collection
- Pioneer Lady: Peoria's Secret Scribe
- Presidential History
- Rare & Fine Collection
- Teaching Materials Center Collection Collection
- The Vidette Digital Archives
- Voices of Extremism
- Women of World War I
- Board Reports of Illinois State University
- Dissertations & Theses
- Faculty Research at Illinois State University: A Bibliography of Historical and Current Scholarly Works
- Gamma Phi Circus Collection
- Illinois State University Course Catalogs
- Illinois State University Historical Video Series
- Illinois State University History Collection
- Illinois State University Yearbooks
- ISU ReD: Research and eData
- Normal Editions Workshop Archive
- Presidential History
- The Vidette Digital Archives
- Women of World War I
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