Additional Resources

The fragility and uniqueness of many archival materials cause them to require special care; after staff retrieves items from the storage area, they must be examined in the Archives Reading Room. Because of these limitations, we have made numerous supplementary resources available outside the Archives: books, periodicals, and licensed databases in the Hedberg Library, as well as published and public domain materials on the Internet.

Hedberg Library

Duplicate copies of some Carthage materials are housed in both archives and circulating collections:

Carthage yearbooks (LD 801 C305 C37),
Carthage M.Ed. theses (LD 801 C3k),
and Carthage faculty-written books.

Theses, books, and media can be searched on Koha, at least cursorily, by using kw = Carthage. Missing theses will be photocopied from the archives copy, bound, and replaced in the circulating section. Obtaining duplicate copies of faculty, staff, and alumni books and cataloging them for archives and circulating collections is an ongoing task of collection development staff. Feel free to report missing items to archives staff.

Directories and newspapers can also be accessed through the Hedberg Library's subscriptions.

Directories:

Marquis Who's who in America (2010)
http://www.credoreference.com/book/marquisam

Marquis Who was who in America, 1985-present
http://www.credoreference.com/book/marquiswww

Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984
http://www.credoreference.com/book/marqwas

Newspapers:

Access NewspaperARCHIVE
http://access.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.

Newspaper Source Plus
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=n5h
More than 700 full-text newspapers, providing more than 33 million full-text articles, 1975-present

LexisNexis Academic
http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/
Full text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, 1980-present

Carthage publications available through the Carthage College website

Carthage College Catalog
http://info.carthage.edu/academics/catalog/
The above menu gives access to all available issues in both PDF format and as searchable HTML
(2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10),
or the following URL can be used as model for catalogs from 2002 to 2010 by changing the date: http://info.carthage.edu/academics/catalog/tree.cfm?year=2010

The Current, newspaper of the Carthage community
http://current.carthage.edu/

Tom Noer, Heritage of Carthage
http://www.carthage.edu/college-history/ (six of eight episodes published in the Carthaginian)

Internet Resources

Numerous late nineteenth and early twentieth century Illinois books have been published on the Internet by non-profit digital libraries:

Google Books – Advanced Book Search
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
Not all Google books are free, but most are in the public domain, and many can be downloaded.

Internet Archives
http://www.archive.org/
To access a specific area or person from these collections, it helps to know both the county and the city/town:

Hancock County: Carthage, Fountain Green, Nauvoo
Montgomery County: Hillsboro, Nokomis, Litchfield
Stephenson County: Freeport, Lena
Adams County: Quincy
Champaign County: Champaign, Urbana, Philo
McLean County: Normal (Illinois State University)
Sangamon County: Springfield
Jackson County: Murphysboro

Two of the most important ebooks from “old Carthage” are Spielman’s history of the college and the 1910-11 Catalogue:

The Diamond Jubilee History of Carthage College, 1870-1945, by William Carl Spielman
http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwXAAAAIAAJ&dq=denhart+carthage&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Carthage College Bulletin, 1910-1911
http://www.archive.org/details/announcement211191011cart

Finally, there are numerous web pages which offer information on Illinois:

Illinois Genealogy Trail, History and Genealogy
http://genealogytrails.com/ill/

The ILGenWeb Project
http://ilgenweb.net/

Both the above provide Illinois historical and genealogical information, classified by counties.

Historical Society of Montgomery County
http://history.montgomeryco.com/
Extensive web page including Hillsboro Academy and an Historical Book Archive of 22 volumes.

Tina Eger
24 August 2010

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