Alumni Resources
Dear Alumni, We have developed this website to provide information about library resources and services tailored to the interests of you, our alumni.
I invite you to travel back in time and revisit your years in the "downtown" and "South Hill" eras through three special collections: search the historical issues of the Ithacan; view images of buildings, events, and people at the College from 1950 to the early 1970's, in the C. Hadley Smith Collection; and listen to the thoughts of retired faculty and administrators, recorded as part of the Library's Oral History project.
We welcome gifts from alumni and friends that allow the library to add to our collections and enhance our facility. For example, the Collaborative Study rooms on the 5th floor, funded through the Senior Class of 2005 gift, are a much-used resource. The Class of 2011 gift allowed the Library to open an expanded Digital Media Lab, where students are able to individually edit multimedia projects, practice and refine presentations, and work collaboratively on course projects.
I hope that you find these resources useful and engaging. Thanks for your interest in the Ithaca College Library.
Lisabeth Chabot
College Librarian
The Ithaca College Archives has a number of special collections that might be of interest to alumni:
- C. Hadley Smith Collection
Historical photographs of Ithaca College. - The Ithacan
Historical issues of the IC student newspaper, available in digital format. - Rod Serling Archives
The College Archives maintains a collection of scripts for the Twilight Zone television show. Access to these unpublished and un-produced materials requires permission from the donor. Please contact Bridget Bower, College Archivist, for more information. - Oral History Project
A project, still in the "Beta" stage, to collect oral histories of Ithaca College Faculty and Staff. - IC Stories Project
We recently launched our IC Stories Project - we are posting images from the Smith Collection and inviting alumni and IC friends to share their memories about the people and places in the photos. - IC Then & Now
An ongoing series of videos about the history of campus buildings, including material about IC's downtown era.
The Ithaca College Library has selected a group of online resources for our alumni:
- IC Library Alumni Databases
Note: Due to licensing and copyright restrictions, IC Alumni do not have access to several licensed library databases. - JSTOR has made nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals, published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere, freely available to the public for reading and downloading. Watch for “FREE” badge
icons throughout the JSTOR site. The Early Journal Content will be released on a rolling basis. A quick tutorial about how to access this content is also available.
Several states provide access to selected online resources. Contact your state library or local public library for more information. For example, the NOVELny project (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library) provides New York state residents with online access to a group of full-text resources. Connect to NOVELny resources via your local public library, using your library card, NY State Driver's License, or obtain a card from the New York State Library.
Alumni who reside in Tompkins County should access the NOVEL resources via the Tompkins County Public Library databases.
Additionally, anyone residing in New York State can get a borrowers card from the New York Public Library, which will allow you access to their licensed databases. Go to http://www.nypl.org/ and select the "How to Get a Library Card" dropdown in the upper right. Follow the instructions on the subsequent page.
Graduating Students: Ithaca College's Policy on Account Expiration: Access to most Ithaca College accounts is terminated upon an IC community member's official date of separation from the college (e.g. graduation). The college does provide a 90-day grace period for accessing ones personal IC e-mail account for all users who leave the college. As licensed library databases are accessed via Netpass, access to these resources expires after the 90-day period.
Scene from "The Court is Naked", group view of performers, taken March 2, 1970. Photo courtesy of C. Hadley Smith Collection
Interview with Art Ostrander, Professor Emeritus and Forner Dean, School of Music
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Our first video celebrates the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Campus Center.
For a current listing of the latest "Then and Now" videos, see the comprehensive list of IC Library-produced videos.
We invite alumni to post comments and share memories associated with the buildings depicted in the videos.
Ithaca College Alumni are welcome to become Library Affiliates and borrow selected materials from the Library's Collections.
For people considering making a gift to the Ithaca College Library, the Library has developed a Gifts-in-Kind Policy in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Advancement.