SCUA News
Special Collections and University Archives
Month: July 2021
A Custom Enclosure for a Special Book
by Audrey Sage The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Special Collections division recently acquired a copy from the limited edition of Louise Levergneux’s book “Surveillance” to add to their artist book collection. This unique work questions the prevalence and abundance of security devices that track our movements and actions, every hour, around the world. […]
Current Exhibit: Out for the Evening: A Taste of Gay Nightlife in Greensboro
Bars and clubs have been important social, cultural, and political spaces for the LGBTQ+ community for many years. In addition to providing a (relatively) safe space for meeting new people and socializing with friends in an era when open socializing had many potential negative consequences, bars also provided a palace for sharing of political and […]
Faith, Food, Fellowship, and Female Identity: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Current Church Cookbooks in the NC Cookbook Collection
By Katherine Widner *Katherine Widner was a UNC Greensboro Library and Information Science Student who wrote this article in conjunction with her final Capstone Project, the North Carolina Cookbook Storymap. In my work with the NC Cookbook Collection of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives here at UNC Greensboro, I’ve come to […]
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Patrick Dollar Acknowledged with the Martha Ransley Staff Service Award The University Libraries Staff Service Award was established in 1997 upon the retirement of Martha Ransley, former Head of the Circulation Department, “To recognize and reward members of the SHRA Libraries Staff who provide outstanding leadership and service in furthering the accomplishment of the mission […]
High Impact Learning through Exhibits
High impact student learning is crucial to the academic and professional success of our students. In UNCG Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), we work closely with various academic departments on our campus to provide opportunities for students to gain real world experience as part of Capstone projects, practicums, and internships. During the Spring semester […]
New Acquisitions
RARE BOOKS Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez (2018) Indigenous Woman marries the traditional to the contemporary, the native to the post-colonial, and the marginalized to the mainstream in the pursuit of genuine selfhood, revealing cultural inequities along the way. This is a quest for identity. Of my own specifically, yes, but by digging my pretty, […]
Claire Kelleher Bequeaths Rare Books
by Carolyn Shankle Claire Kelleher, emeritus faculty and loyal supporter of UNCG in many areas, passed in January 2021. Kelleher spent her formative years in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, earning her B.A. from the University of Toronto and her M.A. from the University of Chicago. She continued to pursue her Ph. D. at the Courtauld […]
UNCG Institutional Memory Collection documents early African American professionals and the pandemic experience at UNCG
by Scott Hinshaw For the year 2020, the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection interviewed two African American pioneers on UNCG’s campus. In 1967, Dr. Ernestine Small became the first African American professor hired by UNCG. She was instrumental in the creation of the School of Nursing and its new BSN program, having been one of the […]
