Special Collections Research Center

Welcome to Hannah Helmey, Public Services Lecturer Librarian
Aug 8, 2025

Hannah is joining the Special Collections Research Center as the Public Services Lecturer Librarian, where she will focus on instruction, research sup...

Emily Kader

Meet Emily Kader, Curator for Distinctive Collections
Jul 15, 2025

Emily Kader is the Anne Belk Distinguished Professor and Curator for Distinctive Collections. She started her new position in September and oversees c...

Library Student Employee Sticker Contest Winning Design, by Katie Weekers

The Special Collections Sticker Contest Winners
May 1, 2025

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 aro...

Special Collections Research Center Sticker Contest!
Nov 25, 2024

App State students are invited to submit original design entries to the Special Collections Research Center's sticker design contest! Winning entries ...

Image of Nathan Rodney sitting at the SCRC desk

Summer Internship Reflections by Nathan Rodney
Aug 20, 2024

A guest post by Nathan Rodney, a graduate student assistant who recently finished his summer internship at the Special Collections Research Center. He...

The foreign students present in 1950. From left to right: Jutta Meyfarth, Hector Sosa, Ming Sung, and Anneliese Schroeder

International Students at Appalachian State Teachers College
Aug 9, 2024

 A guest post by Nathan Rodney, a graduate student assistant interning at the Special Collections Research Center. He is a second year graduate s...

Book Cover of The Clue of the Leaning Chimney

Nancy Drew in Special Collections
Dec 9, 2019

ASU SPEC RARE BOOKS Childrens PZ 7 .K23 Hi c.4 The Elaine O’Quinn Girls’ Studies Collection in Special Collections houses original Nancy...

Campus Aerial View, winter, 1961

Winter Pop-up with Special Collections
Dec 2, 2019

https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/8117 The winter season in the Appalachian Region is known for its beautiful snow-swept peaks. Ski l...

Belk Library

New Hires in Special Collections
Nov 6, 2019

 Ross Cooper is the new Public Services Specialist in Special Collections.Ross was born and grew up in Boone, North Carolina in a family affiliat...

Greta Browning and Shannon McCluney at Rare Book School

McCluney and Browning attend Rare Book School
Jul 25, 2019

When you think of summer camp, visions of horseback riding, swimming, and crafts may come to mind. But not for two University Libraries employees, who...