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NEWSLETTER FOR THE DAVID L. RICE LIBRARY Editor: Mona Meyer
Treasures in the Archives In the summer of 1972, the Lilly Endowment, Inc. awarded the then Indiana State University Evansville a three-year grant to establish an archival project for the acquisition, preservation and processing of regional material. At the end of the third year, the University was to assume responsibility for continuing to collect, preserve, and make these materials accessible. This early grant project was the beginning of what is now the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) unit at USI’s David L. Rice Library. It started with just a few regional history books from the general collection of the library; today the UASC consists of 408 personal collections, over 700 audio/video tapes, and 5,435 monographs. We’d like to bring three individual collections to your attention here— something new, something little known, and an “oldie but a goodie.” What’s new is our Oral History Collection, recently made available online. The collection includes 514 interviews with local citizens about World War II, including soldiers who were involved in battle and citizens who were here on the homefront. The interviews cover such topics as local
history, education, and what it meant to be a black American living in this region, dealing with segregation, race relations, the Ku Klux Klan, African-American schools, and more. A large number of these interviews were conducted by local historian Dr. Richard Litov, and others were completed by those affiliated with the University of Southern Indiana, such as Dr. Darrel Bigham (professor emeritus of History), Dr. Thomas Rodgers (History department adjunct), Dr. David L. Rice (USI president 1967-1994), Dr. Leigh Ann Howard (professor of Communication Studies), and Jon Carl ’95 M.S.E.’98, history teacher at Reitz High School. Items in this collection include transcripts, video recordings, audio recordings, or some combination thereof. Caveat: these recordings were not done by professionals, so quality may vary, and some videos must be downloaded to view. Listen to Ada McClurkin and Anna Johnson, both of whom worked at Republic Aviation during WWII, talk about what it was like to be a “Rosie the Riveter.” Read about the time Dr. Charles E. Rochelle, an educator in Evansville for 41 years and the principal of Lincoln High School, met Booker T. Washington. Listen to Dr. Alan Rankin, (continued on page 3)
Spring 2018
Streaming Video Options Rice Library now offers expanded streaming video options for USI faculty members. You will find complete information on the library’s webpage under "Services for Faculty/Streaming Video Options." Here’s a brief overview of the options available. According to its website, Filmmakers Library Online “provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.” You may be familiar with this Alexander Street/ ProQuest product as it has been available for some time. You can search the database if you know what you’re looking for, or browse by title, discipline, publisher, or people. Kanopy is broader in scope, offering 26,000+ films, about one half of them (continued on page 3)