Help Digitize a Decade of the IDS

By Indiana University Libraries General

By now, you know the drill: We are digitizing the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) and want your help! These past two years, you have helped digitize 1938 to 1989. This time, it is the 1990s, so grab your favorite CDs and your IU t-shirt that no longer fits and join the excitement of IU Day crowdfunding!

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Digitizing the student newspaper makes browsing through older editions easier, more efficient, and fun. Donating just a little goes a long way with this project! Inflation has hit, and one page now costs $1.32. We estimate it will cost $50,000 to digitize the 1990s.  

During the 1990s, IU held the first IU Dance Marathons. The Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team finished 2nd in the Big Ten Conference during the 1991-1992 season. In the summer of 1997, the Dala Lama visited IU. The School of Music graduate program tied for first place with Juilliard and Eastman in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. In 1998 and 1999, The IU men’s soccer team won the NCAA championship. The year before his death, in 1999, University Chancellor Herman B Wells was named IU’s Man of the Century.

The IDS captured it all. Despite being the most requested resource of IU history, the IDS hasn’t always been readily available to researchers. The Indiana University Archives and donors like you have come to the rescue, however, helping to provide broad access to digital copies from 1938 through the 1980s.

Campaign momentum is building thanks to a generous $1,500 gift from an anonymous donor that kicked off the campaign. The donor gave in the spirit and memory of Dr. S. Kay Burrus.

Your gift today will support the Mary Brown Craig University Archives Special Projects Fund, created in spring 2024 through a generous inaugural gift from IU alumni Fran and Don Jackson, to honor Craig, IU’s first University Archivist from 1943-1977.  The IDS digitization is the first special project the ongoing fund is supporting.

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By  Indiana University Libraries General

By now, you know the drill: We are digitizing the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) and want your help! These past two years, you have helped digitize 1938 to 1989. This time, it is the 1990s, so grab your favorite CDs and your IU t-shirt that no longer fits and join the excitement of IU Day crowdfunding!

More Info

Digitizing the student newspaper makes browsing through older editions easier, more efficient, and fun. Donating just a little goes a long way with this project! Inflation has hit, and one page now costs $1.32. We estimate it will cost $50,000 to digitize the 1990s.  

During the 1990s, IU held the first IU Dance Marathons. The Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team finished 2nd in the Big Ten Conference during the 1991-1992 season. In the summer of 1997, the Dala Lama visited IU. The School of Music graduate program tied for first place with Juilliard and Eastman in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. In 1998 and 1999, The IU men’s soccer team won the NCAA championship. The year before his death, in 1999, University Chancellor Herman B Wells was named IU’s Man of the Century.

The IDS captured it all. Despite being the most requested resource of IU history, the IDS hasn’t always been readily available to researchers. The Indiana University Archives and donors like you have come to the rescue, however, helping to provide broad access to digital copies from 1938 through the 1980s.

Campaign momentum is building thanks to a generous $1,500 gift from an anonymous donor that kicked off the campaign. The donor gave in the spirit and memory of Dr. S. Kay Burrus.

Your gift today will support the Mary Brown Craig University Archives Special Projects Fund, created in spring 2024 through a generous inaugural gift from IU alumni Fran and Don Jackson, to honor Craig, IU’s first University Archivist from 1943-1977.  The IDS digitization is the first special project the ongoing fund is supporting.

RAISED
$1,575
GOAL
$10,000
GIFTS: 3
29 days left

Recent Donors

Recent Donors
Donor name Gift amount
Christine Wagner $25.00
IU Supporter $50.00
Anonymous $1,500.00

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Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.