March 12, 2026 • 1:14 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Dr. Emily Kader, Curator for Distinctive Collections, shared a selection of unusual and revealing items from the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University. Together, these objects demonstrate how physical artifacts can open unexpected windows into the past.
February 6, 2026 • 12:58 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Hello, Special Collections blogroll readers! This is a guest submission by Ross Cooper, Public Services Associate, a member of the Public Services team staffing the “front end” of our Reading Room and research space. A colleague came up with the idea of asking each...
![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.jpg)
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...
