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Beginnings : GOOD GROWING PAINS: THE 1980S AND 1990S
by Emilie Mills Thinking about the Special Collections Division as it was then known in the 1970s, I realize that is was the decade of “figuring it all out”. We had to bring together a variety of uncataloged book collections secured in a variety of locations (or, as it turned out, not so secure for […]
Dr. Anna Gove Goes West!
by Kathelene McCarty Smith Photographs taken by Dr. Anna Gove, the second resident “lady doctress” at the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNC Greensboro), have proved a rich source of both campus and local history. A native of New Hampshire, Gove arrived in North Carolina at 26 years of age, becoming one of the […]
Flashback to 1921!
by Beth Ann Koelsch SCUA has an amazing collection of over 75 scrapbooks made by students and “classes of” . These scrapbooks range from from the late 1800s through the twentieth century. I love scrapbooks and yearbooks and have had to restrain myself from going anywhere near them because I know if I start paging […]
New Acquisitions
RARE BOOKS Final proof of Morris Cox’s unpublished collage novel, March Demon (1938) Morris Cox as an artist defies simple definition. While he trained as a commercial artist, during his lifetime he was a sculptor, puppeteer, print maker, and a book artist as well. Born in 1903, Cox was too young to join the effort […]
The Triad COVID-19 Web Archive
By Jessica Dame As part of its ongoing work to document the history of UNCG, University Archives has been archiving campus websites since 2015. Following the University’s early announcements and response regarding the monitoring of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in March 2020, the University Archives began archiving the University’s COVID-19 related web content. Shortly thereafter, […]
Spotlight on Students
by Patrick Dollar Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has an extensive student worker, intern/practicum, and volunteer student worker program. Although the volunteer program has been temporarily suspended due to COVID-19, the department continues to employ 6-10 student workers and supervise several interns. Our students work on a variety of important projects, such as arranging […]
Staff and Students
Hinshaw and Dollar earn DAS Certificates SCUA is very proud to announce that Patrick Dollar and Scott Hinshaw have both earned the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certificate from the Society of American Archivists. The DAS Certificate requires passing prescribed coursework and a comprehensive examination. “Building Partnerships for Student Success” grant received Kathelene McCarty Smith, Interim Head […]
Instruction and Student Success
by Erin Lawrimore As with all other work at UNCG (and elsewhere), our instructional work in SCUA has adapted to current restrictions in place to stem the spread of COVID-19. We are unable to host class visits in our reading room, thus limiting our ability to provide students with the ability to physically handle materials […]
New Digital Exhibit Curated by Natalie Branson (M.A. in History with a concentration in Museum Studies)
Natalie Branson, a second-year graduate student working on an M.A. in History with a concentration in Museum Studies, researched and developed an online exhibit focused on the work of the Women’s Association for the Betterment of Public Schoolhouses, an organization of women advocating for public education in North Carolina in the first quarter of the […]
New Exhibit!: “UNC Greensboro Back to the Future: The Story of the 1960s”
On March 14, 2019, more than thirty people stopped by Hodges Reading Room for an open house event to celebrate our new student-curated exhibit “UNC Greensboro Back to the Future: The Story of the 1960s.” Student curators provided visitors with personalized tours of the exhibit and provided reflections on their experiences researching campus history.This exhibit […]