{"id":16389,"date":"2022-09-28T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:35:44","slug":"women-and-leadership-archives-to-digitize-mundelein-college-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2022\/09\/28\/women-and-leadership-archives-to-digitize-mundelein-college-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Leadership Archives to Digitize Mundelein College Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago to Digitize Mundelein College Materials with Illinois History Digital Imaging Grant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Women and Leadership Archives\n(WLA) at Loyola University Chicago completed the first year of the Mundelein\nat 90<\/em> digitization project in July 2022 after receiving an Illinois History\nDigital Imaging grant of $84,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mundelein at 90<\/em>\nproject, named in honor of Mundelein College\u2019s 90-plus years of existence, aims\nto digitize and provide online access to unique historical records from\nMundelein College previously only available in person at the WLA.  Items will be available through the Illinois\nDigital Archives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary of State and\nIllinois State Library administer the Illinois History Digital Imaging grant\nprogram, which provides funding for eligible libraries to carry out projects\ninvolving the digitization and provision of web access to their important\nhistorical and cultural collections. Digital Imaging grants support the\ncreation of digital collections while expanding access to those collections\nthrough the Illinois Digital Archives, a repository for digital collections of\nthe Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions\nin the State of Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grant project includes the hiring\nof student Digitization and Metadata Assistants, who began scanning and\ncreating metadata for photos in the Mundelein College Photograph Collection in\nspring 2022. Over 4,000 photographs, slides, and negatives have been digitized\nto date. This collection contains photographs of Mundelein College\u2019s students,\nfaculty, architecture, and special events. These photographs document the many\nchanges in women\u2019s education, Catholicism, and American culture throughout the\nschool\u2019s history. Student Digitization and Metadata Assistants will continue\nthroughout the next academic year to prepare these digitized images to be\npublished online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An archival digitization vendor\nis working to digitize a selection of 18 scrapbooks and 748 issues of student\npublications and other unique materials from the Mundelein College Records.\nThese items, which contain photographs, writings, and artwork created by\nMundelein students, require additional care and expertise in the scanning\nprocess due to their fragile and complex nature. These digitized materials will\nbe available online for the first time on the Illinois Digital Archives in\n2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WLA will continue to share the progress of the project on their website, LUC.edu\/WLA<\/a>, and through posts on Facebook<\/a>. A video detailing how to view the items online will be shared on the WLA\u2019s YouTube channel at the end of the project in summer 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Women and Leadership Archives<\/strong>
Established in 1994, the WLA collects, preserves, and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women\u2019s organizations, which document women\u2019s lives, roles, and contributions. The WLA grew out of the need to care for the records of Mundelein College and expanded to collect papers of women leaders and women\u2019s organizations. Mundelein at 90<\/em> directly supports the WLA\u2019s mission to make these records available.

The WLA is part of the\u00a0Gannon Center<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Loyola University Chicago Libraries<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and serves a wide variety of users, ranging from students and scholars to the general public. The WLA makes records available at the Archives in Loyola\u2019s Piper Hall, offers remote reference services, presents programs, and provides online resources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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