2025 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Lincoln/Net website hosted by Northern Illinois University Libraries. Originally funded by the Illinois State Library and the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services in 1998, the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project brought together a wide variety of primary source materials related to
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The Booklab draws on a tradition of accomplishment in the humanities at Northern Illinois University. “Part of the story of the Booklab is a generations-old story of the collections that previous curators of the Rare Books Room and English department worked to build — and how they had already been
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In its first ten years of existence, the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project employed approximately 50 Northern Illinois University students, many with graduate assistantships that provided tuition waivers as well as hourly wages. Project staff members also used the project to expand the boundaries of digital historical resources. These efforts
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