HAYES-TAYLOR YMCA COMMUNITY SCANNING

On April 4th, 2024 SCUA staff volunteered to assist in a community scanning event led by Digital Projects Coordinator David Gwynn. The focus of the event was to preserve local African-American history. Community members brought their photographs, ephemera, and other materials to be scanned. The digitized files will be added to the UNCG Libraries Gateway site.

JACKSON LIBRARY CREATIVITY COMMONS

For University Libraries’ Staff Development Week, Carolyn Shankle and Suzanne Helms helped staff create their own letterpress print using the Spring Garden Press, a circa 1854 A.B. Taylor Company No. 2 Iron Hand Press, housed in Special Collections. As you can see from the photographs below, printing is hard work. The hand inked posters (and the wood type) featured the text “Exit pursued by a Beare. Act III, Scene III stage direction by William Shakespeare excerpt of the First Folio, 1623.”

“DR. GOVE: PHYSICIAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER”

In March, Kathelene McCarty Smith gave the presentation, “Dr. Anna Gove: Physician and Photographer,” to a local chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). The talk featured photographs from archival collections illustrating Gove’s tenure as campus physician at the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG), as well as her experiences as a Red Cross doctor during World War I.

UNCG PRIDE KICKOFF

UNCG held a Pride Month Kickoff event in April with table displays in Moran Commons. Stacey Krim and Melody Rood staffed the Libraries’ table. Beth Ann Koelsch and Patrick Dollar collected materials for the University Archives collections. While there, they took the opportunity to try out the 360-degree video setup. UNCG provided the pink boa and sunglasses.

QUEER CAFÉ  

This spring, SCUA staff participated in the 3^rd annual Queer Café, hosted by University Libraries as part of the greater campus PRIDE programming. SCUA created a pop-up exhibit featuring UNCG Queer History and offered a letterpress printing station for a hands-on activity.

NAOMI WISE BOOK TALK

An exciting collaborative event was held at the Alumni House in March when University Libraries and SCUA hosted a book talk with authors Hal E. Pugh and Eleanor Minnock-Pugh. The presentation featured their book Naomi “Omie” Wise: Her Life, Death and Legend. Proud North Carolina native and SCUA Archivist Scott Hinshaw (at the podium) organized the event.

WOMEN VETERANS EVENT

On April 27, 2024, Beth Ann Koelsch attended the 2^nd Annual “Morning with the Mustangs” Women Veterans Event in Orange County, North Carolina. Sponsored by Mustangs and Patriots, women veterans connected with each other, shared stories, and interacted with mustangs and miniature donkeys.

SCUA ON THE FACULTY SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

We are proud to announce that our own Stacey Krim has been elected as the Secretary of the UNCG Faculty Senate! Congratulations!

SCUA SWAG!

We now have eight styles of stickers for visitors to SCUA to take home and enjoy!

SCUA NEWS FINALE

And, finally…SCUA’s Audrey Sage, Beth Ann Koelsch, Stacey Krim, and Kathelene Smith (along with our fearless leader Terry Brandsma and Music Library Manager Andrea Tiffany), a.k.a. the “Jackson Ukers”, entertained library colleagues on May 6, 2024, for Staff Development Week. We played the heck out of Hank Williams’ “Hey, Good Lookin,'” The Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week,” Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” and The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.”

Upcoming SCUA Events:

• “Performing Arts on Campus” exhibit at the Greensboro Project Space: September 30-October 4.
• “The Queering of Eve: Using Poetry to Confront Compulsory Heterosexuality in the Garden of Eden” with Emilia Phillips: TBA.