Happy Summer! Campus may be quieter, but your SCRC processing team continues to keep busy (and cool) working on another group of new and updated finding aids. As usual, all of the following collections are available for use in the Special Collections Research Center and the finding aids are available on our website (or […]
One of the Special Collections Research Center’s most exciting and recent acquisitions is the Joel Snyder audio description archive. Since October 2024, I have had the privilege of processing this collection with the ultimate goal of making it accessible to researchers and the public. For decades, Dr. Joel Snyder has been a pioneer and advocate […]
The semester may be slowing down, but your SCRC processing team isn’t! This month we’re dedicating our full new finding aids blog post to a fun and detailed scrapbook compiled by a nursing student back in the 1920s. If you want to see more after checking out the below highlights, you’re in luck, as […]
When you have a new collection that contains over 760 individual photographic slides you have to dedicate a full new findings aids blog to it! The SCRC processing team is very excited that this collection is now available for use in the Special Collections Research Center and the finding aid available on our website […]
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and George Mason University (GMU) Libraries recently hosted an event celebrating the official opening of the Lavinia Scott papers. This collection consists of 33 linear feet of material created and collected by missionary educator and speaker (Clara) Lavinia Scott (1907-1997) spanning circa the 1860s-1998, with particularly rich coverage […]
