Historical Resources

Alumni Association

The SIU Alumni Association was formed in 1896 to serve the University, graduates, and former students. There are approximately 213,000 alumni in the United States and around the world. Communication with our alumni is crucial to the organization's mission, and there are several vehicles in place to stay connected to our vast audience. Southern Alumni magazine provides four issues per year to all Association members, with the December issue sent to all alumni of record. Also in the communication family is Saluki Pride, an informational newsletter sent twice each year to all members of the Association. Timely events, news releases, basic information on the organization, and on-line registration is offered at siualumni.com, plugging Southern alumni into the World Wide Web.

Center for Dewey Studies

The Center for Dewey Studies is the home of projects and resources that focus on the life and work of the American philosopher and educator John Dewey.  On this Web site you will find information about the Center and its resources, and about recent and forthcoming events related to Dewey studies

Institutional Research and Studies

Institutional Research and Studies’ mission is to provide the University management with information that supports institutional planning, policy formation and decision making. In addition, our unit is in charge of reporting data about the University to a myriad of external constituencies.

The Institutional Research unit at SIUC had its beginnings in the late 1960s. The Unit Cost Study was one of the first processes that the office was responsible. Our web site is a comprehensive source of information and provides current as well as historical data about the University’s enrollments, student demographics, faculty and staff, budget and finance, academic programs, and the library.

Morris Library

Morris Library is the main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Library holds more than 2.4 million volumes, 3.1 million microform units, and over 12,500 current periodicals and serials.

Library users have access to I-Share (the statewide automated system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files.

As the campus center for access to academic information and collaborative academic technology projects, the Library provides a wide range of services, including reference assistance, instructional and technical support, distance learning, geographic information systems (GIS), and multimedia courseware development.  

Morris Library is a member of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) , Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA).

Special Collections Research Center—Morris Library

The Special Collections Research Center of the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale collects and preserves unique and rare historical materials in selected subject areas, and promotes the use of these materials by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and further the educational, research, and service missions of the university.

SCRC University Archives—Morris Library

University Archives preserve the academic, athletic and administrative legacy of the university from 1874 to the present. The Archives collect administrative files, reports from the academic colleges and administrative units, announcements, correspondence, flyers, event programs, brochures, broadcast media, photographic negatives and news clippings. The Archives also retain preservation copies of course offerings, historical campus directories, yearbooks such as the Obelisk, student dissertations and theses, and publications of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale University Press

The University Museum

Since 1874, the University Museum has presented educational and engaging research, exhibitions and programming in the arts, humanities and sciences. Today, the Museum houses over 100,000 artifacts making visible a worldwide heritage for both the University and Southern Illinois. We will fulfill our Mission by providing our audience with access to diverse collections, dynamic exhibits, a strong Museum Studies Program, and effective educational programs.

U. S. Grant Association

Victories in the Civil War made Ulysses S. Grant a national figure and propelled him into the White House. Until recently, however, historians and biographers have found him to be an elusive and controversial subject. For decades, basic documents necessary to understand this complex figure--Grant's correspondence, military and government papers, and other important materials--remained scattered in libraries, archives, and private collections. Now, the Ulysses S. Grant Association is assembling these documents in an edition that presents authentic texts to the general public as well as to specialists.