Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of Data
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Established in 1963, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Archives (UIUC Archives) serves as the official repository for the administrative records and related documents of the University of Illinois. It is a unit of the University of Illinois Library and operates across three service locations in Urbana and Champaign, Illinois.
The Archives preserves more than 25,000 cubic feet of office records, publications, and personal papers from the University and its Urbana-Champaign campus. Holdings include personal papers of faculty and alumni, records of student organizations and associations, official administrative records, oral histories, and student publications. The University Archives also serves as the repository for the American Library Association Archives — the records of the world's oldest and largest national library association — and hosts the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, which preserves materials on American music history and culture. The Student Life and Culture Archival Program, founded in 1989, collects materials documenting student life across the United States and at Illinois specifically.
The Archives holds materials useful to researchers in journalism and media history, including records of student publications, historical newspapers such as student alternative and comedy publications, photographs, and documents relating to campus civil unrest and political activism during the Vietnam War era. The collections are described as particularly useful for research in modern American intellectual, cultural, and social history, and explicitly support research by journalists.
The Archives' reading room is located at the Main Library, Room 146, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana. Additional access points are at the Harding Band Building in Champaign and the Archives Research Center at 1707 S. Orchard Street, Urbana. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM–12:00 PM and 1:00–5:00 PM. Holdings are searchable through an online database. Registered researchers may access collections in person; some materials require advance appointment.