Tag Archives: digital

Why Archive?

When we think of archives, we tend to think of collections of documents, photographs, or records which have been permanently preserved for historical or research reasons. Out of the millions of pieces of material we human beings create yearly, only certain items are chosen to represent the value of an age or a group or an organization we wish to preserve. Someone must decide whether a grocery list jotted down on a napkin by a famous person will one day offer insight into that famous person’s life or the times in which he or she lived. This is heady stuff and not taken lightly by archivists....

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Digital Special Collections Process , , , , Updated: January 4, 2016

The Digital Archives

Digital archives are a valuable resource. Digitized items are more accessible to researchers than non-digitized materials, and digitized documents and images can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. Using this resources helps students and researches save time and reduce or eliminate the need to visit the library and/or spend time pouring through hard copy originals....

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Digital Special Collections , , , , , Updated: December 23, 2015

Print Theses Bibliography Now Available

This month, we introduce a new section of our Special Collections page where users can easily locate the call numbers and location of any of these print theses by searching through an easy to use digital bibliography of these print theses. Searches can be made by author, degree, program, year, or title. It’s really worth a look, even if you aren’t doing research....

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Thesis Collections , , , , , Updated: December 3, 2015

Introducing the University of Detroit Chorus Collection

The UDM Libraries/Instructional Design Studio is pleased to announce the addition of the University of Detroit Chorus Collection to our digital archives. Materials from the collection of former Chorus member, Gerald Gruska (1959-1963) are now available in digital format dedicated to the legacy of the University of Detroit Chorus and Choral Society/Club. The archive spans the early years of the Chorus from 1949 to 1970, and focuses on Chorus Directors George McLeod and Don Large. Additional material will be added as it becomes available....

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University of Detroit Chorus Collection , , , , , , , Updated: October 29, 2015

Commencement Collection

Graduation is arguably the best time in any student’s educational experience. It’s not so much a “finish” line as it is a “starting point”; not so much a door that’s closing but one that’s standing wide open. The beginning of any student’s college career may be exciting and challenging, but that moment when the hard won diploma is handed to him or her has got to be the most meaningful. Even sitting in that mass of gowned graduates waiting for a turn to walk across that stage is worth the necessary patience expressed on that amazing day....

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Commencement Collection , , , , , , Updated: May 20, 2015

Items of College History: The Picnic of the Acolytes

Long before the world became a blurry line of activity speeding towards the future, Detroit College was a seemingly gentle place filled with the hum of academic learning in the classical sense. Students, dressed in business attire, dutifully sat in stark classrooms memorizing dates and names and theories at wooden desks lined up properly in front of filled blackboards and pacing professors. After class, the halls were likely filled with chuckles and guffaws at jokes that have become tired and boring in the century since. It’s easy to imagine these students walking to their classroom buildings through the bustling streets of the economic boom of downtown Detroit in the late 1800s. They were the future of Detroit, rowdy and driven, and it was these students who would pen the prose and poetry that would be bound and published in the Tamarack, a student publication that appeared between 1890 and 1923....

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Tamarack Archive , , , , Updated: February 5, 2015

Significant Trivia

Did you know that there are currently 112 digitized course catalogs (bulletins) (both undergraduate and graduate) from the University of Detroit, Mercy College, and the University of Detroit Mercy available in our digital archives? These range from 1928 through 2005, and represent offerings from every college, including the Law School and the Dental School. We even have the very first course catalog published for the 1889 to 1890 term. And this archive is growing! Each month, more catalogs are being published to offer visitors a wealth of history in digital format....

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Digital Special Collections , , , , , , Updated: January 29, 2015
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