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Banned Books Week is a week at the end of September when libraries and schools celebrate the right to read materials that have been challenged or censored. We don't "ban" books in Special Collections, but some conditions require us to restrict access to materials in our digital collections.

In the days before agricultural mechanization in North Carolina, the tobacco harvesting and curing frequently included communal meals to feed all the workers, relatives, and neighbors involved.  Brunswick stew featured pro

On Friday September 21, 2018, from 2:30-3pm in Withers Hall, the Special Collections Research Center will bring a show and tell of materials to the inaugural

The Special Collections Research Center has reopened.  The Special Collections hours today (and other days) are posted on the NCSU Libraries website.

NCSU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is happy to announce that the Rynn Berry, Jr. Papers have been fully organized and arranged, and a guide to the collection is now available to view online.

The Special Collections Research Center will be closed Sept. 13-16 because of Hurricane Florence.  We expect to reopen on Monday, Sept. 17, at 8:00 am Eastern Time.  Special Collections hours are posted on the NCSU Libraries website.

[blog post co-authored by Kris Alpi, Director, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine]

This fall, the Special Collections Research Center will partner with the NCSU Libraries Digital Scholarship Workshops Series this fall to lead a two-hour workshop working with Tropy, a free, open-source desktop application designed to help re

Eating sweet corn is a summer ritual in North Carolina (or almost anywhere else in the United States!).  Below are a few links to a variety of corn recipes from historic NC Cooperative Extension publications.

With another summer in the books, some students may be feeling a little down about returning to school for another semester of hard work.  The University Archives would like to remind them however, that they do not have to post these Regulations for Dormitories on their doors anymore, as…