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The 1927 Report of the Comptroller featured a detailed outline of the University’s General Accounting System, including a description of how tabulating or punch cards are used.

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The Power of the Punch Card (and the Punch Card Operator)

Machines and people have been working together for decades, perhaps more than you had thought,…

University LibrariesNovember 28, 2018

Wilson Library card catalog, 1968, http://purl.umn.edu/226242

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Wilson Library – a valued facility

Plans for a library on the West Bank campus had been discussed and debated for…

University LibrariesSeptember 23, 2018

Construction of the Social Sciences Tower and School of Business Administration Tower (now known as Heller Hall), circa 1961, http://purl.umn.edu/81313.

From the Archivist News University Archives

The West Bank rises

The West Bank we know today on the Twin Cities campus looked quite different five…

University LibrariesSeptember 18, 2018

From the Archivist News University Archives

Northrop Field rediscovered

Long before TCF Bank Stadium became home to Golden Gopher football, there was Northrop Field…

University LibrariesSeptember 6, 2018

Children attending the University Nursery School play in a wading pool while being observed, 1939.

From the Archivist University Archives

Ideas of the week

Materials documenting a department’s, college’s, or center’s history can be found in a variety of…

University LibrariesAugust 10, 2018

Digital panel from the exhibit "Gone Into History: 90 Years of the University of Minnesota Archives" displayed in the Elmer L. Andersen Library, January 19 through April 27, 2018.

From the Archivist Past Exhibits University Archives

Gone into history online exhibit

2018 marks the 90th anniversary of the University of Minnesota Archives, giving us a prime…

University LibrariesJuly 10, 2018

Photograph of the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry faculty in 1936. Lillian Cohen is pictured front row center.

From the Archivist News University Archives

Meeting Professor Cohen

While working with the University Archives collections to research a recent exhibit, I learned about…

University LibrariesApril 20, 2018

The dedication program extolled the financing of the Field House, which had been “erected without a cent of cost to the taxpayers for construction purposes.”

From the Archivist News University Archives

Happy 90 years, Williams Arena!

From its dedication as the Field House in 1928 to its remodeling and re-naming as…

University LibrariesFebruary 6, 2018

Ski-U-Mah, 1921-1949, a magazine “of the University in the fullest sense of the word” with emphasis on humor, fashion, and campus social news

From the Archivist News University Archives

Student publications over the years

Students at the University have been writing — and publishing — opinions and short stories…

University LibrariesNovember 2, 2017

From the Archivist News University Archives

Welcome (back) to campus!

With the beginning of September, the start of the fall semester at the University of…

University LibrariesSeptember 1, 2017

UMN Libraries news and events have moved to www.lib.umn.edu/news

The Power of the Punch Card (and the Punch Card Operator)

Wilson Library – a valued facility

The West Bank rises

Northrop Field rediscovered

Ideas of the week

Gone into history online exhibit

Meeting Professor Cohen

Happy 90 years, Williams Arena!

Student publications over the years

Welcome (back) to campus!

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