SCRC Blog Posts
List of blog posts
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror..."
![Woman in a hooded black coat wearing red gloves](/media/images/Homecoming1-768x1024.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 22, 2019, 9:07 a.m.
Selection of spooky materials from SCRC.
Shedding Light on Illuminated Manuscripts
![Tan page of vellum with red, black, and blue text and decorations](/media/images/antiphoner1-768x1024.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 15, 2019, 9:55 a.m.
Illuminated manuscripts are handwritten books that have been adorned with vibrant colors, artwork, and even gold.
Ninth Street Women and New Books at SCRC
![Yellow book cover with a woman creating art above the title.](/media/images/ninthstreet2-e1570714637905-768x10.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 10, 2019, 11:12 a.m.
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel, an immersive look at the post-war modern art movement from the viewpoint of the women who helped shape it.
September 2019 News Wrap Up
![“A white sweatshirt with an embroidered orange letter ‘S’ and an orange textile stating “Syracuse” on top of a brown table.](/media/images/Preservation-Fair-e1569953784537.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 1, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
New exhibits, new acquisitions and recent events.
New Acquisition: Josef Albers' Interaction of Color
![Paper with orange, yellow, dark blue, light blue, gray, and purple squares of paper attached inside, surrounded by black boxes and books on a wood table](/media/images/IMG_0870-e1569332440278-1024x768_1.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Sept. 25, 2019, 11:47 a.m.
Acquisition of a 1963 copy of The Interaction of Color by Josef Albers.
It's No Wonder...That They're Called Little Wonders!
![Black record with a yellow and green center](/media/images/LittleWonder.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Sept. 17, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
Little Wonders are 5 ½ inches in diameter and carry sound on a single side.
American and Soviet "Truth": Pravda in Special Collections
![Tan colored paper with black Russian text and a photograph of Russian state officials](/media/images/Pravda-landscape-e1569851251819-10.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Sept. 10, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
20th century American cartoonists' take on the Soviet Union.
150 Years of Tradition at Syracuse University
![Orange and blue beanie](/media/images/sua_memorabilia_00011-e15698513452.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Sept. 3, 2019, 1:18 p.m.
University Archives’ most historically rich collections, including the Photograph Collection and Memorabilia Collection
August 2019 News Wrap Up
![Exhibition wall that has Syracuse flag and beginning of letters that will read "150 Years of Tradition](/media/images/IMG-0781-e1569851388937-1024x768.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Aug. 29, 2019, 1:36 p.m.
August 2019 updates include new acquisitions and new oven.
Andre Norton: Creator and Guardian of Fantastic Worlds
![Pink and blue colored fantasy scenes](/media/images/Amra-crop-rs-1024x728.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Aug. 20, 2019, 2:50 p.m.
Pulp Literature and Science Fiction Collections is home to the papers of Andre Norton
Voices from Attica
![Yellow book cover with illustration of prison bars](/media/images/Betcha-Aint-cover-e1565625420224.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Aug. 13, 2019, 3:06 p.m.
The book of poetry Betcha Ain’t: Poems from Attica exemplifies the press’s commitment to publishing voices that may not otherwise exist.
A Perfect Pair of Graduate Student Summer Projects
![Two graduate students standing together in Belfer Audio Archives](/media/images/DSC0041-Edit-e1569851492802-1024x6.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Aug. 6, 2019, 3:14 p.m.
Two students working this summer in the Belfer Audio Archive
Virtual Plastic: SCRC as Creative Laboratory
![Students gesturing towards plastic objects](/media/images/Plastics2-e1569851721821-1024x684.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on July 23, 2019, 9:51 a.m.
Professor Jacob Riddle, a faculty member of Transmedia and the School of Art used Plastics Artifacts Collection for Digital Fabrication and Transmedia courses.
New Acquisition: Jantzen Swimwear Advertising Portfolio
![Two models standing on a waterfront deck wearing 1930s Jantzen swimsuits](/media/images/Jantzen-Portfolio.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on July 16, 2019, 10:09 a.m.
Jantzen Swimwear advertising photographs from the 1930s and 1940s.
Blake's Prints: 1789 Songs of Innocence by William Blake
![A woman is seated on a chair with two young people leaning over a book held in her lap, while whimsical tree branches curl and twist up from the right of the page forming the title, “Songs of Innocence."](/media/images/BlakeTitlePage-e1569851828801-614x.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on July 9, 2019, 10:28 a.m.
1789 edition of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
Q&A with SCRC's New Director Petrina Jackson
![Petrina Jackson](/media/images/JacksonPetrina-240x300.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on July 2, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Get to know the new Director of SCRC.
From Clay Tablet to Cyber Space: A Semester Full of Library and Archives History
![Sebastian Modrow highlighting collection materials to students](/media/images/Modrow_Teaching1_Smaller.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on June 18, 2019, 11:29 a.m.
Course called “The History of Libraries and Archives in the Western World.”
My Year with Tolley
![Dane Flansburgh standing next to archival boxes in a warehouse](/media/images/Tolley1-e1559930791530.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on June 11, 2019, 11:40 a.m.
Processing the Chancellor William P. Tolley Records and William P. Tolley Papers.