KIN Ed Students Visit SCUA

In June, SCUA hosted a group of KIN Ed students who were visiting campus for their in-person orientation. They viewed a pop-up exhibit and heard a presentation by Kathelene McCarty Smith related to the history of physical education at UNC Greensboro. The exhibit included early gym suits, artifacts, and images, as well as several important books selected by Rare Books Curator Carolyn Shankle from SCUA’s collections; De Arte Gymnastica, written by Giovanni Mercuriali (1530-1606), which is one of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports, and several books on the history of physical education and dance for women and girls, originally part of the Amy Morris Homans Collection at Wellesley College, which was purchased in the 1940s by the University Libraries. They also toured several archives spaces, including the Preservation Lab where they had their picture taken with the famous Bindery Doughnut!

First year Art MFA students visited SCUA this summer, where they had some hands-on time with several artists’ manuscript collections which document their creative process and also a selection from the Zines and Newsletters Collection! After their SCUA visit, they toured the Digital Media Commons.

LIS 683: Preservation Management in Libraries/Archives

Beth Ann Koelsch, Audrey Sage, and Carolyn Shankle joined Kathelene Smith’s LIS 688 class to share information about all aspects of archival preservation, including bookbinding and papermaking, as well as book, photo, and scrapbook preservation. They also discussed the role of digitization in archival preservation efforts.