Special Collections
Located on the 4th floor of Belk Library and Information Commons, the Special Collections Research Center is home to the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, the Stock Car Racing Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts, and University Archives & Records Management Services.
Check our current hours. The archives, manuscripts, and rare book collections are available by appointment. Please make an appointment 5 days or more in advance to allow for research consultation and pulling of materials.
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Artists’ Books Viewing Last Friday
On Friday, September 12, the Special Collections Research Center participated in a satellite event to the North Carolina Museum of Art’s End Paper Art Book Fair, which will take place at the museum on September 20-21. Book artists and Department of Art faculty,...
“As the Crow Flies,” Appalachian Journal’s New Open-Access Expansion
As the Crow Flies, the new open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, goes live Sept. 15. Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, roundtable discussions, interviews,...
![The Blowing Rocket Digitization Project Goes to SAA [Society of American Archivists]!](https://disc.library.appstate.edu/app/uploads/2026/07/blowingrocket_vol_09_no3_1940_0705_ac_compressed-400x250.jpg)
The Blowing Rocket Digitization Project Goes to SAA [Society of American Archivists]!
One of our Manuscripts and Archives Processors, Sai Estep, recently attended the Society of American Archivists (SAA) annual conference in Anaheim, CA, titled, “ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2025: Making it Count.” The theme of this year’s conference was all about the impact of...