UIS Archives/Special Collections

Digital Collections

Campus Archival Documents

• SSU/UIS Commencement Programs, 1972-2005

• SSU Groundbreaking Album, 1970

• President Robert C. Spencer's "Blue Memo," 1970

• 1970-71 Guide to Sangamon State University
• Campus Photograph Collection, 1970-1985
• 2006 UIS Strategic Plan
• Thirty Years of Brookens Library, 1976-2006 (Powerpoint Presentation
• Guide to the SSU Nature Trail, 1976
• The Physical Development of Sangamon State University, 1969-1995, by Richard R. Williams
• And more...

Campus News Archives

• Student newspaper The Spectrum (1970-1971)

• Campus newsletter SSU Journal (1973-1982)

• Campus newsletter SSU/UIS Weekly (1984-2002)

• Sangamon magazine (1973-1976).

SEE ALSO: the SSU/UIS Campus News Archives.

Local History Resources

• Pictorial Souvenir of Springfield, 1890

• Clayville Rural Life Center Research Reports

• Chandler Family Letters, 1851-1872

• And more...

Manuscripts and Special Collections

• Walt Whitman Collection

• Geo. L. Mesker & Co. Architectural Iron Works, 1903 Catalog

• Don Springer Historical Financial Documents Collection, 1758-1967

Oral History Collection

• Full text of 793 volumes of memoirs from the UIS Oral History Collection.

Outstanding Student Masters' Theses

• Outstanding Thesis Award winners, runners-up, and nominees, 2005-  .