Want to catch up on some old memories from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College? You’re in luck! The MacRae Library has digitized back issues of the Agricola News (formerly called Alumni News) to 1979. Here is the complete list of Agricola News (56 issues so far) currently available in DalSpace.
One of the oldest issues of Alumni News that the MacRae currently has, from April 1979. Do you have older issues we could scan?
Some interesting tidbits from early publications include:
- Vol.3, No.1, 1979: Construction of the Dining Hall and Alumni Theatre
- Vol.5, No.1, 1981: NSAC to get degree granting status
- Vol. 9, no.1, 1985: NSAC and Dalhousie University signed their historic agreement to grant the Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture.
- Vol. 11, no. 1, 1987: The house at 179 College Road became NSAC International.
- Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990: MacRae Library officially named
The MacRae Library is looking for issues of Alumni News prior to 1979. If you have any issues that you wish to donate to the library for digitization, please contact erin.macpherson@dal.ca
Staff at the MacRae Library are working on other digitization projects, including the NSAC calendars, that we hope to share with alumni in the near future. Stay tuned.