SCUA News
Special Collections and University Archives
Month: November 2008
2008 Women Veterans Luncheon
The 10th Anniversary Women Veterans Luncheon of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project was held on Saturday November 15, 2008. Approximately 160 people including 74 veterans attended the luncheon, including World War II veterans! Branches represented were the Army/WAC, Navy/WAVES, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Army Nurse Corps, Navy Nurse Corps, Army Medical […]
Roy Z. Kemp Papers donated to Manuscripts
17.75 linear feet of published and unpublished materials relating to the poet Roy Zell Kemp have been donated to SCUA. Kemp (1910-1980) was raised in Greensboro, NC and spent most of his life writing religious and inspirational poetry.Writings by Kemp include the following published items: Measure of a Heart, and Other Poems, Golden Quill, 1962. […]
Halloween Campus Tour
I gave a Halloween tour for library staff on Friday 10/31. To listen to a podcast of the tour, go here.
Women Veterans Project Podcast!
Listen to the Women Veterans Project podcast in which curator Beth Ann Koelsch discusses the collection and the annual Women Veterans Luncheon on Saturday 11/15. podcast link
Manuscript Collections on Flickr
Images from three manuscript collections have been uploaded to the library’s flickr account. You can browse scanned images featuring American suffragettes, the Leila B. Tuttle Collection of Chinese Artifacts, and the photographs of Robert Neal Adams, whose subjects include Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
New Website for Women Veterans Historical Project
The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), established at UNCG in 1998, documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I. The collection offers a wide range of source material, including photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories, military patches and insignia, uniforms, and posters, as well […]
University History Online
The University Archives has launched an online timeline featuring significant events and pictures from over 100 years of the UNCG’s history. Thanks to Collections Assistant Dean Rhoades, you can also browse an online exhibit of university postcards, and another exhibit of artifacts from UNCG’s history.
Two Research Grants Offered from Special Collections & University Archives
The University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro are pleased to offer two research grants for researchers utilizing the outstanding resources of the Special Collections and Rare Books and University Archives and Manuscripts Department. The goal of the research grants is to promote scholarly research utilizing the resources of this Department. Collections […]