February Archives News

February 21, 2006

Edgewood College Present

Mid-February finds the campuses of Edgewood College busy! Monroe Street, Deming Way and Valton! Teaching, researching, learning have all moved into mid-semester gear. In the Archives of the Oscar Rennebohm Library, we are seriously engaged in evaluating and choosing the electronic tools that we will need to preserve and make available the 21st century story and the 21st century records of Edgewood College. Content DM (digital content management software) and social networking tools appear in the text of all the software and hardware that we are reviewing. One of the websites I investigated earlier today is the Digital Library of the Commons. Click, enjoy and let me know what you think!

Edgewood College Past

Our pre-Christmas Story about "Workers for the Church" that featured a full page photo of Sister Marie Stephen Reges provoked a few real time and electronic conversations with college alumnae/alumni. As the bare and frozen woods outside remind us that it is still February in Wisconsin, we spent some time today viewing slides from Sister Judine's science class of the '60's.

There is beautiful color photography (slides) of the dry, barren Badlands of North Dakota and South Dakota. Descriptive words in her handwriting are penned on each slide. Back then and now, Edgewood College students study our Earth and its: "lignite bands" and "craters" and "canyons."

How has Edgewood College -- her students and her graduates - continued to care for our Earth?

Edgewood College Future

Each day, each of us here on campus moves the college another day into its future. Each of you reading this is also a part of our change and development. This semester the college faculty are reviewing their current departmental organization with a plan to implement a new academic organizational structure for the college. Listening sessions are being held throughout the month of February. Decisions will be made an implemented beginning this summer.

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