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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...

Bill Rhinehart

Bill Rhinehart: A Remembrance
Mar 31, 2025

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 t...

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 ...

Appalachian State's 125th Anniversary
Sep 5, 2024

Stop by the fourth floor of the Belk Library and Information Commons and check out an exhibit featuring 125 years of Appalachian State University hist...

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...

Poster for the Mountain Home Music exhibit

Mountain Home Music's 30th Anniversary Exhibit at the Jones House
Jul 29, 2024

The Special Collections Research Center is partnering with Mountain Home Music on an exhibit during the month of August at the Mazie Jones Gallery to ...

Citizen Archivist Transcribe-a-thon Event

Citizen Archivist Transcribe-a-thon: March 27th from 2 - 4pm
Mar 20, 2024

All are invited to attend the Citizen Archivist Transcribe-a-thon on Wednesday, March 27th from 2:00pm - 4:00pm in Belk Library, Room 028 in the Lower...

Ohioan Farmer Diaries Collection Added
Mar 14, 2024

Fresh off the processing table is AC.935: Ohioan Farmer Diaries.  Two-page spread from the 1877 diary of William Symmes, showing daily entri...