SCRC Blog Posts
List of blog posts
The Culture Clubs: Researching Communities of Interest cohort
Posted on May 19, 2025, 5 p.m.
Students in this year’s SOURCE Explore with SCRC cohort looked in our collections for traces of human culture, activity and ideas through archival materials.
Rolling Out the Orange Carpet for Returning Alumni
Posted on May 9, 2025, 9 a.m.
On April 4, the Special Collections Research Center joined in welcoming alumni returning to campus for their Senior Alumni Reunion, which included members of the classes of 1950 through 1975.
A Legend Returns: Carmelo Anthony and Syracuse University
Posted on May 7, 2025, 9 a.m.
Carmelo Anthony is returning to campus to speak to the Class of 2025 at the commencement ceremony on May 11th.
Students in LIT 245: Florence and the Renaissance World reflect on SCRC’s exhibit
Posted on May 5, 2025, 9 a.m.
Students from Dr. Lauren Surovi’s class, LIT 245: Florence & the Renaissance World, visited the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of Bird Library in February 2025.
Students in the Archives
Posted on April 22, 2025, 9 a.m.
Undergraduate students enrolled in ENG 407: Advanced Critical Writing had an archival adventure at the Special Collections Research Center.
An Undergraduate Researcher’s Holy Grail
Posted on April 15, 2025, 2 p.m.
The archives provide resources for research focusing on the longevity of organizations and blending that with societal issues that repeatedly have been a problem in Syracuse since the 1940s.
The Lost Art of Penmanship
Posted on April 15, 2025, 9 a.m.
SCRC’s Penmanship Collection has a wide range of manuscripts and specimens devoted to the art of penmanship.
Nightline celebrates 45 years!
Posted on April 1, 2025, 10 a.m.
ABC News' iconic news show Nightline debuted on March 24, 1980.
Special Collections Notable Acquisitions 2024-2025
Posted on March 25, 2025, 4 p.m.
New and notable acquisitions in the Special Collections Research Center.
Oates in Translation
Posted on March 17, 2025, 4 p.m.
The papers of Joyce Carol Oates, award-winning American novelist, poet and teacher.
Exploring the Legacy of Andragogy
Posted on March 3, 2025, noon
As an adult education educator, researcher, and lifelong learner, I spent two weeks in the SCRC supported by the Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Grants-in-Aid program.
Doodles Exhibit Personality of Union Colonel
Posted on Feb. 24, 2025, 10 a.m.
On one side, the name Ulric Dahlgren written in different styles covers the page surrounded by tiny, unlabeled dollar amounts.
SCRC’s 2025 Media Preservation Shipment
Posted on Feb. 14, 2025, 9 a.m.
The SCRC team consists of multiple functional specialists who collaborate to choose and carefully package selected media assets for our ongoing preservation and digitization efforts.
Research at SCRC by the Numbers, 2024 Edition
Posted on Jan. 31, 2025, 9 a.m.
Get an up-close view of the research work that went on in SCRC in 2024.
SCRC Fall 2024 Events Galore!
Posted on Jan. 22, 2025, 11 a.m.
SCRC had a fall full of programs and events that centered smart speakers in conversation with archives and special collections as material sites of discovery and creative-critical inquiry.
Welcome to Our New Assistant Director!
Posted on Dec. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
SCRC welcomed our new Assistant Director, Lindy Smith.
Retired Otto the Orange Gets TLC
Posted on Nov. 18, 2024, 10 a.m.
The University Archives has a wide range of objects that capture the history of the University, including three Otto the Orange mascots.
In the Aftermath: Documenting and Researching Victims Support Groups
Posted on Nov. 12, 2024, 1 p.m.
As part of Remembrance Week 2024, the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives hosted the hybrid discussion “In the Aftermath: Documenting and Researching Victims Support Groups."
The Oneida Community Communicate with the Dead
Posted on Oct. 30, 2024, 10 a.m.
Situated in Oneida, New York, the Oneida Community was a utopian commune active from 1848 to about 1916.
Changing Hands: Ownership Erasures in Rare Books
Posted on May 31, 2024, 2 p.m.
Many books at the SCRC showcase layers of ownership marks; but in some cases, the distinctive marks left by earlier owners were erased by the subsequent keepers.