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To all friends of the Franklin D. Schurz Library and Wiekamp Educational Resource Commons, we thank you.

Your support has repeatedly contributed to our success in providing outstanding collections, services, programs and scholarships for students at IU South Bend.

We are proud to have you among our friends and treasure your generosity.

This photo of Dr. Bernard Streets and friends, circa 1950, is just one of many historical photos from the Dr. Bernard Streets collection, part of the South Bend African American historical materials digitized and soon to be made available online, as part of a 2014 Indiana Memory Digitization grant.

Michiana Memories Website Launch Event
February 3 at Civil Rights Heritage Center

Website part of 2014 Indiana Memory Digitization Grant

By Julie Elliott

In May 2014, University Archivist and Associate Librarian, Alison Stankrauff, Joe Sipocz, Manager of Local & Family History Services at the St. Joseph County Public Library, and George Garner, Tours and Collections Coordinator of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, received a 2014 Indiana Memory Digitization Grant for their project proposal entitled, St. Joseph County African American History Collection.

As part of this project, the website Michiana Memories has been created and will debut on February 3 at a special launch event at the Civil Rights Heritage Center, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Attendees will have a chance to use the website and enjoy community and academic presenters such as Ball State University's Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History, Dr. Nicole Etcheson speaking on Southern Indiana's soldiers of color during the Civil War.

"There was great variation in how local communities reacted to national events such as emancipation," said Dr. Etcheson. "The northern Indiana/southern Michigan region was very different in its population from southern Indiana, for example, and had a very different experience of race relations. So the Michiana Memories website is a wonderful way, not only for people to explore the local history, but to get a sense of the diversity of parts of the state and the country as they see how local history fit in or did not fit in with the national narratives we've all been taught."

"The Michiana Memories website of photographs and memories of the civil rights movement is a treasure, " said Dr. Monica Tetzlaff, Associate Professor of History at IU South Bend. "It is so important to see the faces and remember the stories of those who worked to make this a more inclusive community in terms of access to employment, equal housing and public facilities."

This event is also part of the South Bend 150th anniversary celebration. Click here to learn more about the event, or to RSVP.

Some of the items available on the website include photographs from the Dr. Bernard Streets Collection, which includes photos from the 1880s until 1999; a nearly complete run of The Reformer; an African American newspaper printed 1967-1971; and historical documents and studies on race and housing in South Bend. A more detailed list of items included in the website is available here.

Stankrauff, who is active in local history and a member of the Civil Rights Heritage Center faculty advisory committee, is excited by the impact this collection will have on the community.

"This project helps to tell the full story of Michiana," she notes. "It adds the voices and stories of local African Americans and activists to show the amazing and important history we all share."

The project began in January 2014, when Sipocz contacted Stankrauff and Garner about applying for the grant. The fact that the three organizations were working together and combining their resources and skills was an important part of the proposal's success.

"Digitally scanned, cataloged, and presented together online, our combined archives document the history more completely than each of our institutions could do on our own," said Sipocz.

Stankrauff concurs. "Institutions partnering really help make history more representative and rich. This partnership helps to make that happen."

The Michiana Memories collection will also be included in the Indiana Memory and Digital Public Library of America collections.

"African American and civil rights history get lost all too often," said Garner. "To have a state-of-the-art website that allows easy access to this history for Michiana's schools, for its Universities, and for researchers across the United States is a huge accomplishment. When we honor the history of all our communities, we prove that South Bend is a city that honors its diversity."

Dean of Library Services Vicki Bloom agrees that this website is an exciting addition to researchers and our community.

"By unifying these collections and making them accessible online, researchers, students, and the general public will be able to easily discover and delve into the history and impact of African Americans in our region," said Bloom.

To learn more about the Michiana Memories project, contact Alison Stankrauff at 547-520-4392 or astankra@iusb.edu

Three WiFi Networks Around You

Head of Library IT Services explains the three types of WiFi found on campus

By Kirby Cheng

Do you know there are three WiFi networks available on this campus? They are IU Secure, eduroam and attwifi. Each has its own unique features. If you are an Indiana University community member, IU Secure should be the first choice for your mobile device because it provides WiFi WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access) for authentication and encryption. In addition, it allows you to utilize some IU resources, such as IUanyWare. However, before you can surf the Internet, you need to register your device's MAC address. For a windows-based laptop or tablet, you can register via Get Connected. For devices of other platforms (iOS, Linus, Android), the easy way is to register is at IU DHCP site.

Yet be aware, IU Secure only encrypts your authentication credentials, not your network content. To have all your network data protected, you may need to configure your mobile device to use IU's SSL VPN service.

The second wireless network is eduroam (education roaming). It is a secure, worldwide wireless network. The system allows faculty and students to access the Internet using their home university credentials while visiting other participating institutions. If you only want to access the Internet, not certain protected IU resources, eduroam is a convenient network to use, as it does not require registering your device's MAC address.

The third wireless network is attwifi, which aims to provide courtesy access for IU visitors; nevertheless, it does not exclude IU members. Like the other two networks, it encrypts your log-in credentials and provides campus-wide wireless access to the Internet. The service is free for AT&T users as well as non-AT&T users. The authentication for AT&T users is automatic; there is no need to type in your user ID or password.

Giving to the Library

Donations help with collections, student scholarships, digitization, and more

Please consider a gift to the Franklin D. Schurz Library.

The faculty and staff of the Franklin D. Schurz Library take great pride in the resources and services we offer to meet our mission. We can only maintain this high quality through the additional support from individuals and organizations like you. Please visit https://www.iusb.edu/library/about/donation.php to learn more about how to donate to the library.

Interested in collections? Select the Franklin D. Schurz Library Fund (32RR04205), Schurz Library Endowment (37RR04279), and/or Wiekamp Educational Resource Commons Fund (32RR04CT1).

Interested in scholarships? Select the Endowed Russo Library Worker Scholarship (37RR04782) and/or the Franklin D. Schurz Library Fund, which supports the Library Prize for Undergraduate

Research.

Interested in digitization? Select the Franklin D. Schurz Library Fund.

Tax Advantages: Gifts to Indiana University are deductible as charitable contributions within the limits of the Internal Revenue Code. Indiana taxpayers are eligible for a 50% tax credit for gifts up to $400 on joint returns, or $200 on individual returns.

For questions, contact: Vicki Bloom, Dean of Library Services at (574) 520-4448 or Dina Harris, Director of Development at (574) 520-4131.