The mission of Archives and Special Collections is to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and printed materials that support the research and instructional needs of students, faculty, national and international scholars, and the general public.
Description: Provides access to Ball State's scholarly works and institutional records, including Theses and Dissertations and University Records and Publications. Note: You may need a BSU username and password to access some content.
Time Period: 1950's to present
Sources:
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Music, News, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Primary Materials: Archival Material, Audio, Citations, Dissertation and Theses
Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Ball State University
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description: The Digital Media Repository offers digitized versions of a wide range of items including photographs, letters, posters, artwork, books, newspapers, and motion pictures. It also contains the Ball State University Board of Trustees minutes, building plans, course catalogs, and many other collections of university related items.
Time Period: 1800's to present
Sources: Contains records more than 175,000 items_
Subject Headings: General, History, Humanities, News, Social Sciences (Images)
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Archival Material, Audio, Books/e-books, Images, Maps, Models, News, Other, Videos
Information Included: Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Ball State University Libraries
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
The Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections preserves a wealth of information on the history of civil rights issues and struggles in Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana. In addition to local history resources and Ball State University records, Archives and Special Collections is also home to collections with state-wide, regional, national, and even international research value. Some of these collections are included here due to their usefulness for researchers of the broader history of civil rights in Indiana and the United States. Included in these holdings are published books, dissertations, theses, manuscript collections, University Archives records, newspapers, photographs, architectural drawings, audiovisual recordings, and online digital collections.
Please note that this research guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all available civil rights resources in Archives and Special Collections, but rather a starting point for further research that may include additional relevant collections and published items not listed here.
1968 Poor People's Campaign photograph 21. Part of Ken Heinen's 1968 Poor People's Campaign Photographs, Archives and Special Collections. Available online in the Ball State University Libraries Digital Media Repository.