Author Archives: Courtney Bailey

Update from Central Piedmont Community College

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Courtney Bailey

Contributed by Erin Allsop As part of recent changes to the Central Piedmont Community College Academic Affairs unit, the Central Piedmont Library is proud to welcome Becky White as the new assistant in the Archives department. Working alongside archivist Erin … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursdays at the New Hanover County Public Library

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

For some time, Travis Souther has been writing Throwback Thursday posts for the Facebook page of the New Hanover County Public Library (https://www.facebook.com/pg/NHCLibrary/), each of which highlights an aspect of local history and includes an image, map, link to an electronic … Continue reading →

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Archives Month: Sanitaria in Western North Carolina

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Contributed by Ashley McGhee Whittle By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sanitaria had become a health craze and in the tourist destination of Asheville. The sanitaria became a mecca for those suffering from tuberculosis and other ailments. The … Continue reading →

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Archives Month: Dorothea Dix Hospital Project

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Contributed by Leah Tams and Robert Allen Since our presentation at the 2019 SNCA Conference, the Community Histories Workshop (CHW) at UNC Chapel Hill has continued its excavation of historical records from the Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. … Continue reading →

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UNCG on The State of Things

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Part of today’s episode of The State of Things on WUNC radio featured the Unsung Heroes Project at UNC Greensboro. You can read more at http://libresearch.uncg.edu/unsung_heroes/about.html about this collaboration to conduct oral history interviews of civil rights movement veterans. Although … Continue reading →

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Archives Month: Central Piedmont Community College Nursing Program

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Contributed by Erin Allsop, Archivist at Central Piedmont Community College Central Piedmont’s nursing program is the oldest nursing program in the N.C. Community College System and has graduated more than 3,000 students since its inception. When the Associate Degree program … Continue reading →

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Archives Month: Health Alert!! Polio Outbreak on UNC Campus! UNC-NC State Football Game Cancelled!

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Here begins a series of posts celebrating SNCA’s 2020 Archives Month theme of “20th Century Health and Medicine.” This post was contributed by Dawne Lucas. This post originally appeared on the “For the Record” blog of the University of North … Continue reading →

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ECU Libraries working to document the COVID-19 pandemic in eastern North Carolina

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

East Carolina University Libraries are documenting the effects of COVID-19 on the lives of eastern North Carolina residents and on normal campus operations. Preserving this period of our local history will be beneficial to scholars for years to come, much … Continue reading →

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Raising Archival Awareness in a Regional Studies Organization: The Appalachian Studies Case

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

Please join Liz Harper and Gene Hyde for this presentation, which was originally scheduled for SNCA last March. Please contact Gene Hyde, ghyde@unca.edu, if you have any questions.  Thursday, September 24, 12 – 1 PM Via Zoom – please register at … Continue reading →

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J-SNCA call for papers

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Courtney Bailey

J-SNCA is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to support the theoretical, practical, and scholarly aspects of the archival profession. The editorial board of J-SNCA invites members of the research and archival communities to submit articles for a general issue on … Continue reading →

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