Interlude Student Newspaper is LIVE!

Hello again. This week an exciting addition to the Brown Library Archive Online Collections went live! Online collections, you say? Tell me more, you say? Absolutely!

Front page of the Interlude 
Vol.13 No.11; April 27, 1941
The University of St. Francis Archive currently has eight online collections on various topics related to the institution. The newest is The Interlude Student Newspaper Collection. It contains digital images of the first student newspaper for the College of St. Francis. The first issue was published December 25, 1925 and ran continuously until 1969. The Interlude offers a unique perspective of life in a Franciscan organization during the first half of the 20th century.

At the time, CSF was an all-girls school in a growing suburban community. The paper focused on student driven activities, including: social gatherings, clubs, sports, and community outreach. Graduating class photographs, curriculum changes, and marriage announcements were also prominent features. In the 1960s, the newspaper highlighted the developments of campus life with articles on the new dormitory (Marian Hall) and library (currently LaVerne and Dorothy Brown Library).

Digitizing and publishing the newspapers has been a long process. With 429 total issues in the collection, the first step was to scan the newspapers page by page. This was accomplished with assistance from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), which provides federal funding for libraries. Scanning was completed in 2009.

Bound editions of various volumes of the Interlude
In order for the collection to be accessible online, metadata needed to be added for each issue. Metadata is typically described as “data about data,” which means descriptive information, such as: who, what, where, and when. For the Interlude Student Newspaper Collection this means the date, volume, issue number, and names found within each issue. The last item is still an ongoing project, with a little less than half of the collection to go.



This collection, along with the other seven, is hosted by CARLI (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois). You can find a list of all our online records here. I encourage you to check out each one and send questions to libraryarchives@stfrancis.edu.

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