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Special Collections and University Archives
Month: May 2023
“Chewed and Digested”: Savoring a Community Cookbook
Recently, the Southern Pines Civic Club donated a copy of their only cookbook to the North Carolina Cookbook Collection. Published ca. 1920s, this cookbook strives to live up to the founding principles of the club: On the inside cover, facing the Preface, is a full-page advertisement for the Highland Pines Inn. The connection between the […]
Student Success: Spring 2023
SCUA supports student success by providing opportunities for internships, capstone projects, practicums, student workers, and volunteers. Their projects include conducting research and archival processing, creating libguides and story maps, creating exhibits, and writing blog posts. Some of the experiences in SCUA lead to external internships and job opportunities in the field. Summer Internship: Country Music […]
New Acquisitions – Spring 2023
MANUSCRIPTS THREE WWI ERA POSTERS Three recent additions to the 20th Century Poster Collection include these World War I era posters demonstrating the role women played in supporting the war efforts. From left to right, “Women of America Work for Victory,” which depicts “Columbia” as participating in the home canning work promoted by the National […]
SCUA News: Spring 2023
SCUA Faculty and Staff are Awarded for Service The University Libraries Awards Committee announced the award winners for 2023: And Service Pins for: Preservation Services Student Worker Selected for Library Award Congratulations to Jordan Williams for winning 2023’s Outstanding Library Student Worker Award! She was nominated this year by her supervisor, Audrey Sage, for her […]
Treating George Herbert with Respect
by Audrey Sage The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries maintains a vast collection of the works of George Herbert (1593-1633) in their Special Collections division. George Herbert was a Welsh born English poet and orator. His work, The Temple, is considered one of the “best-known religious poems in the English language”. It is […]
Featured Exhibit: Amy Sacker, Artist
by Mark Schumacher In the late nineteenth century, book design in America was evolving, as single-color, embossed covers gave way to more colorful designs reflecting the aesthetics of the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements. One region of the country where women book designers and other female artists were particularly prolific was the Boston […]
Yoko Ishikawa: A Look at a Student’s Cultural Exchange Experience in the 1950’s
By Shelbi Webb Institutions of higher learning not only offer opportunities for academic knowledge, but also philosophical and cultural understanding. The “foreign exchange student” has long served as a pathway for experiencing the world. However, cultural exchange can be implicitly biased. Yoko Ishikawa, a Japanese exchange student at Woman’s College or “W.C.” (now UNCG) in […]
SCUA Instruction: Spring 2023
SCUA staff taught approximately 75 classes and workshops sessions in the Spring 2023 semester, reaching over 1500 students, and incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experience with archival materials. Some of the notable classes this quarter include: “Something Happened Here” On Thursday, April 20th, […]
Interview with Dr. William (Bill) K. Finley, former Head of Special Collections and University Archives added to UNCG Institutional Memory Collection
By Scott Hinshaw Coming at the end of our department’s fiftieth anniversary, I had a wonderful opportunity to interview Dr. William (Bill) K. Finley for the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection this spring. Dr. Finley is the former head of Special Collections and University Archives at UNCG, where he worked from 1998-2013. He is also Emeritus […]
