September 15, 2025 • 11:52 am | Special Collections Research Center
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,...
September 15, 2025 • 11:32 am | Special Collections Research Center
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,...
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September 11, 2025 • 12:25 pm | Special Collections Research Center
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...
September 9, 2025 • 8:35 am | Special Collections Research Center
This semester, students in the First Year Seminar course, “The Life and Music of Doc Watson,” visited the Special Collections Research Center on August 27 and 29 to learn about the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection’s resources related to Doc Watson. The course...
August 8, 2025 • 12:53 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Hannah is joining the Special Collections Research Center as the Public Services Lecturer Librarian, where she will focus on instruction, research support, and outreach. She previously worked as the Associate Archivist at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville and as an...
July 23, 2025 • 9:27 am | Special Collections Research Center
Who is Michael B. Reilly? In 1974, a man from Hampton, Virginia named Michael B. Reilly wandered around McDowell County, West Virginia with a camera on his shoulder. He found McDowell county to be an intriguing place with citizens of various backgrounds. Every time he...
July 15, 2025 • 9:45 am | Special Collections Research Center
Emily Kader is the Anne Belk Distinguished Professor and Curator for Distinctive Collections. She started her new position in September and oversees collection development and engagement for the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection and the Stock Car Racing Collection....
May 1, 2025 • 12:41 pm | Special Collections Research Center
The end of Fall 2024 the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) hosted a sticker contest. You may have even seen the flyers or digital signage around campus. We had an amazing turnout and so many beautiful and creative designs. The anonymous images were given to 3...
March 31, 2025 • 1:18 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Bill Rhinehart, of the Bill and Maureen Rhinehart Rare Book Collection on British History, passed away on March 18, 2025. You may not have had the chance to meet Bill during his visits to campus, but if you are familiar with the room bearing his name in the alcove at...
November 25, 2024 • 12:31 pm | Special Collections Research Center
App State students are invited to submit original design entries to the Special Collections Research Center’s sticker design contest! Winning entries will be printed into stickers to promote the Special Collections Research Center and our unique collections. Up...
September 5, 2024 • 2:00 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Stop by the fourth floor of the Belk Library and Information Commons and check out an exhibit featuring 125 years of Appalachian State University history. The exhibit surveys a small portion of historical events and how global and social changes driven by university...
December 13, 2017 • 2:58 pm | Special Collections Research Center
A guest post by Liv Winnicki, a rare books and archives reference student assistant in Special Collections. She is a second year anthropology major with a specialization in archaeology and a member of Watauga Residential College. Don’t judge a book by its cover, but...
