Meet our newest librarian!

Please join us in welcoming Meredith Sommers, our new Information Resources Librarian/College Archvist, who began work with us on July 13th.
Meredith is a recent graduate of the School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also received her BA, in Classics (while she, like Librarian Assistant Jack Weinbender, counts the Greek language [...]

What we did on your summer vacation, Part 1

“So, what do you, like, DO at the library all summer?” is one the most frequent questions students and faculty ask library staff as one school year ends and another begins.  I mean, it’s only reasonable to expect that library staff  play Scrabulous and Minesweeper in an empty library all summer while kindergartener-sized tumbleweeds roll [...]

Library staff member promoted to administrative faculty

It is our pleasure to announce the promotion of Ginger Dillon to full-time professional status on the staff of the Milligan College Library, effective January 1, 2009. Ginger will carry the title of Archives and Technical Services Librarian, with the rank of administrative faculty. Ginger is a Milligan College alumnus (Bachelor of Arts [...]

Founders’ papers now open for research!

The Milligan Archives has just completed processing work on the Josephus and Sarah Eleanor La Rue Hopwood Collection and is excited to announce that it is open for research!
The Hopwood Collection contains financial paperwork, correspondence, student assignments, and artifacts spanning from 1865 to 1935 – the majority of the Hopwood’s lifetimes and the entirety of [...]

Living history: Navy V-12 alumni share their stories

Tuesday afternoon I joined members of the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society for a luncheon with local alumni of Milligan’s Navy V-12 program. These men came to Milligan between summer 1943 and summer 1945 as part of the Navy’s WWII officer training program. During those two years, the Milligan student body was composed [...]