Like other repositories, the Louisa H. Bowen University Archives & Unique Collections department is engaged in digitizing many of its unique paper format holdings to make them available to researchers across the world at any time. This cumulative effort will allow persons living at a considerable distance from Edwardsville to gain convenient access to many of the materials we preserve. It will also benefit those who are unable to visit in person during our regular hours. Researchers interested in conducting, or at least initiating their work remotely, may consult each of the links listed below for information about our present digital holdings.
Researchers are encouraged to review the various collections and publications that have been digitized and published online to date by clicking on Digital Collections and Exhibits.
Lovejoy Library’s digital institutional repository, SPARK, contains additional digitized and born-digital resources. Researchers may view these by clicking on Local SIUE Institutional Repository (SPARK).
This guide serves as a short cut to locating multiple digitized resources that contain essential information about the history of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It is intended primarily to empower SIUE teaching faculty to assign research projects related to institutional history and to assist their students to succeed in those research assignments. To investigate the history of SIUE, click on Researching SIUE History Online.
