This article appeared in the Volume 3, Issue 3 Winter 2022 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. By Gene Hyde Earlier this year, UNC Asheville’s Special Collections received the largest private donation in their history when Bill and Alice Hart donated their extensive private library to UNC Asheville. Containing more than 1200 monographs and 26 linear feet of ephemera and other materials, the William A. Hart, Jr. and Alice Huff Hart Western North Carolina Regional Library, known as the Bill and Alice Hart Collection, is the crown jewel of UNC Asheville’s Special Collections. Bill and Alice Hart curated and developed their collection…
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Collections at the University of Tennessee: Great Smoky Mountains, Wilma Dykeman, Marilou Awiakta and others
By Jennifer Benedetto Beals This article appeared in the Volume 3, Issue 2 Fall 2021 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. The Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives includes rare books collections, manuscript collections, the university archives, and the Modern Political Archive (housed in the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy). In 2017, the department was renamed in honor of a long time and generous supporter of special collections. Acquisition efforts are focused on topics of global interest with regional significance. Priorities continue to evolve in order to support changing academic needs and the goals of the University…
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Featured Collection: The Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN
By Steve Cotham, McClung Collection Manager This article appeared in the Volume 1, Issue 2 Fall 2019 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. The Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection was created in 1919 with the donation of Calvin McClung’s personal library to Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville’s public library. McClung carefully built his outstanding private collection of local and regional history over the course of his lifetime, and the new library department became a significant resource for the community and researchers interested in East Tennessee subjects. The McClung Collection will celebrate its centennial on June 15, 2021. Today the collection has 75,000 books; 25,000 reels…
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Featured Collection: The National Park Service Collections Preservation Center at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
By Michael Aday, Librarian-Archivist at the Collections Preservation Center at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park This article appeared in the Volume 1, Issue 2 Fall 2019 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. In May 2016 representatives of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the National Park Service Southeastern Regional Office, Senator Lamar Alexander, and local dignitaries gathered in Townsend, Tennessee to cut the ribbon on a project that had been over 10 years in the making. That project, The National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, officially opened that day, though it would be several months before collection items would be moved…
