June 19, 2026 • 11:44 am | Special Collections Research Center
On May 22, members of Special Collections traveled to Western Regional Archives to attend the North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) workshop, Book Repair Basics: Practical Repairs for Library and Archives Collections. Sai Estep, Hannah Helmey, Kari Salisbury,...
June 17, 2026 • 2:50 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Friday, May 15th, marked the end of my term working as a Graduate Assistant in Belk Library’s Special Collections Research Center this Spring, and I am left with a great appreciation for the value that this experience has afforded me. Surprisingly, I never visited...
March 5, 2026 • 10:13 am | Special Collections Research Center
On Monday, March 2nd, Special Collections held our second Rhinehart Rare Book Room Open House. While some have heard about the stately room lined with shelves of old and rare books, few have had the opportunity to see inside. Special Collections staff hopes to dispel...
February 21, 2026 • 10:28 am | Special Collections Research Center
Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Greta Browning, had the opportunity to attend the Tenth Biennial International CODEX Book Art Fair & Symposium, February 7-9, 2026, in Oakland, California. She also was accepted to the Pre-Symposium Seminar led by Wellesley...
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...
January 30, 2026 • 2:11 pm | Special Collections Research Center
Public Services Librarian Hannah Helmey recently had the opportunity to attend Bibliography Week, a yearly event held in New York City at the end of January. Centered around the annual meetings of “several national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the...
November 24, 2025 • 10:30 am | Special Collections Research Center
As the semester winds down, Special Collections staff are looking back and taking account of our instruction activity this fall. We welcomed 26 classes from a variety of departments to the Special Collections Research Center for a library instruction session. The...
October 8, 2025 • 10:59 am | Special Collections Research Center
On Saturday, September 27, the Special Collections Research Center participated in the American Conference for Irish Studies’ Southern Regional Meeting, held at App State. History professor Dr. Mary Valante organized a hands-on workshop, “The Past in the...
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,...
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...
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...
