Coraddi, State Normal Magazine, and Alumnae/Alumni News available online

As of this week, the full run of UNCG's State Normal Magazine and Coraddi (1897-1999) and Alumnae/Alumni News (1912-1998) are available online. These two publications provide a wealth of information about the history and culture of UNCG and the Triad area.

State Norrmal Magazine began in 1897 as a literary and news magazine published by the Cornelian and Adelphian, and later, the Dikean literary societies. In 1919, it was renamed Coraddi (the title came from the first letters of each society's name) and its focus shifted entirely to literature and the arts. Coraddi is still published today.

Alumnae News first appeared in 1912. Its names was changed to Alumni News in 1964 to reflect UNCG's new coeducational status. In 1998, the magazine was merged with another publication into the new UNCG Magazine.

Both publications are fully text-searchable. Digitization was completed in association with The Internet Archive, Lyrasis, and the Sloan Foundation.

In the News: January, 1961

From Alumae News, fifty years ago this month:

• Woman's College (now UNCG) faces the fact that increasing enrollment, combined with the requirement that students without family in the Greensboro area must live on campus, will necessitate the construction of new housing in the near future.
• The new McIver Building, erected with one million dollars in state funds over the objections of some preservationists who opposed demolition of its predecessor, is dedicated.
• The deaths of William D. Carmichael, Jr. (for whom UNCG's Carmichael Building is named) and Ione Grogan (memorialized by Grogan Residence Hall) are noted.

Goodbye, card catalog

Here's one of those interesting things you find while working on a new project. We're in the process of doing quality checks on a large amount of material digitized in a project involving Lyrasis and the Internet Archive. One of the things we're working on is the full run of the various UNCG alumni magazines from 1912 to the present. This week, we found this article from 1989 on the dismantling of Jackson Library's card catalog and its replacement by the new JACLIN system.

One thing I can say for sure is that most people below a certain age have absolutely no idea what the reference to "let your fingers do the walking" is all about.

We'll be publishing more of these interesting finds in the coming weeks. Let us know what you think.