Happy Birthday, Carlow!
In conjunction with Carlow’s 95th birthday and Homecoming, we officially launched our new platform for聽, as announced in our聽r. The new site is hosted on Hyku Commons鈥攁n open source, collaborative institutional repository system made accessible by academic library consortia鈥攁 move that increases our storage capacity from 20GB to 1TB, in turn increasing our ability to create and share digital collections.聽
To celebrate our 95-year legacy, we have created small historical collections, which we will continue to add to throughout the year and as we work through the Archives. These collections are:
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- Photographs of all of Carlow’s presidents, from 1929 through today.
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- A tour of our Oakland campus, as told through a historical lens. These images show us what has changed throughout the years and what has stayed the same.
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- Documents pertaining to our early history. As of this time, includes an overview of our incorporation with Duquesne University (1929鈥�1933), our original charter from 1933 (granted just in time for MMC’s first graduation), sketches of the original MMC seal, the first academic course catalog, and 鈥淭he Collected Memoirs of the Class of 1933.鈥�
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- Contains photographs of and documents about the first graduates from Mount Mercy College, including Sarah McQuade Connell, who graduated in 1932, and the Class of 1933.
We are in the process of uploading content to other collections you will see on the site, including the Carlow Scholars’ Day collection and the Faculty and Staff Scholarship Repository鈥攚hich will highlight student and faculty/staff research and publications鈥攁nd the International Poetry Forum collection. We will continue to add content continuously, so check back often!