SCRC Blog Posts
List of blog posts
Getting into the Groove: A Student’s Perspective on Audio Preservation
Posted on Dec. 11, 2025, noon
Part two of the Lacquer Disc project collaboration, which began in early 2024, featuring staff from both the SCRC and DDS.
Lacquer Disc Preservation Project: Development and Progress
Posted on Dec. 9, 2025, 11 a.m.
Two-part post from SCRC’s Media Preservation Archivist and the former graduate student media assistant about developing the Lacquer Disc Preservation Project between SCRC and DDS.
Reviving the Seemingly Overlooked: The Well of Loneliness and its Subsequent Materials
Posted on Dec. 1, 2025, 2 p.m.
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall centers around an Englishwoman named Stephen Gordon and their journey finding love with Mary Llewellyn, and the social isolation and rejection they face as a result.
A Halloween Anthology from the Student Staff Members of SCRC
Posted on Oct. 30, 2025, 11 a.m.
Selections from the graduate student employees of Special Collections Research Center (SCRC).
Women in Medicine and the Joan C. Levison Scrapbook
Posted on Oct. 14, 2025, 2 p.m.
In 2021, the University Archives purchased the Joan Levison Scrapbook; Levison was a premedical student at SU.
Architectural Origins: Installing an SCRC Exhibition
Posted on Sept. 16, 2025, 1 p.m.
Installation of the Fall 2025 exhibition on the 6th floor of Bird Library.
Campus Life Through the Archives: SU Student Publications Collection
Posted on Sept. 12, 2025, 11 a.m.
Through the collections within SCRC, one can see diverse expression materialized in the artifacts of student life; in particular, the Syracuse University Student Publications Collection.
Black Information, Memory and Justice: Tracing Historical Relational Networks
Posted on Sept. 2, 2025, 10 a.m.
For the fall 2024 semester, a group of undergraduate and graduate students from African American Studies and Information Studies were brought together for a unique learning experience with Dr. LaVerne Gray.
“Vacation & recreation without humiliation”: Travelling through Segregated America
Posted on July 22, 2025, 10 a.m.
A piece of Black history housed at SCRC called the Travelguide: Vacation & recreation without humiliation acts as a cultural artifact of rebellion leading up to the Civil Rights Movement.
Conserving Banalité
Posted on July 14, 2025, 10 a.m.
A walk-through the process of conserving and repairing Banalité for loan for the Spring 2025 Syracuse University Art Museum exhibition, Surrealism and Photography.
SCRC Was Abuzz with Spring 2025 Events
Posted on May 27, 2025, 11 a.m.
(SCRC) had a busy spring full of programs and events—from our main exhibition, to pop-up displays, to panels and workshops that centered smart speakers in conversation with archives and special collections.
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 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.