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Greenways Archive
The Greenways Archive is a collecting program the NCSU Libraries, in collaboration with the Landscape Architecture Department at NC State’s School of Design, developed in 1991 to bring together environmental materials for research. NC State, with strong programs in Parks and Recreation, Landscape Design, Engineering, and Environmental Sciences, is a fitting repository for such an archive. The university is also located in Raleigh, a leading supporter of greenway-making in the southeast. With extensive materials relating to the development of the greenway movement in the U.S., the Charles E. Little Collection currently represents the core assemblage of the archive. Little wished to make his files available to the public in an effort to increase awareness of greenways and raise environmental consciousness. The NCSU Libraries intends to build on that vision by forming a comprehensive archive that supports research into greenways, as well as other topics in landscape architecture and environmental studies. The goal of the Greenways Archive is to centralize resources and make them available to researchers nationwide.
If you or your organization would like to discuss donating materials to the Greenways Archive please contact the Special Collections Research Center, NCSU Libraries, Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695 - 919-515-2273 or visit the web site at:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/greenways/
The Evergreen Foundation has generously funded a grant to strengthen NCSU Libraries’ collections that relate to greenways programs throughout the nation. The grant supports a two-year project consisting of three areas: a National Collections Survey, Collection Development, and Publicity.
In order to develop the Greenways Archive, The NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center will conduct a preliminary survey to locate collections at the national level, as well as other resources related to the greenways movement. Special Collections staff is currently creating a website for organizations to report the results of the preliminary survey online.
The collection development process will begin with a review of the preliminary survey. The department will then conduct detailed investigations of resources and information that the preliminary survey does not cover. Web site enhancements will include a map that indicates existing greenways, as well as information on their funding as feasible.
The web site, flyers, and a future brochure represent examples of ways to explain the Greenways Archive to a broad audience, and to continue to promote the archive after the library completes the survey project.
In 1988, the Conservation Fund of Washington, D.C. commissioned author Charles E. Little to write a book about the greenway movement, a grass-roots effort to preserve outdoor space. Since scant published information existed about greenways, Little placed a query in several periodicals requesting information about active greenway projects. He received over one hundred replies. Little responded by visiting many sites, and amassed an abundance of information in the process. His extensive research resulted in Greenways for America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), which not only defines and traces the history of greenways, but also documents various greenway projects throughout the United States.
Little, an author, journalist, and policy analyst, donated his research materials to NC State. His donation resulted in the Charles E. Little Collection, which houses information about greenways, parkways, rivers, streams, and related environmental and conservation matters. The collection is composed of correspondence, news clippings, plans, studies, reports, newsletters, brochures, proposals, assessments, maps, publications, and videocassette tapes.
The collection is divided into three main series. Chapter Files contain drafts of Greenways for America; Project Files contain information on greenways across the country from California to Maine; and Reference Files contain various publications about green spaces and the environment.
The Charles E. Little Collection is open to interested individuals for research.
The Charles E. Little Collection
Special Collections Research Center
1) Design is from the cover of Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know, by Frederic William Stack, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
2) Charles E. Little, photo from The Charles E. Little Collection.
3) Frontispiece from The Sylva Americana, by D. J. Browne, Boston: Published by William Hyde & Co., 1832.
4) Pamphlets from The Charles E. Little Collection, NCSU Special Collections Research Center.
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