University History Walking Tours

The University History Walking Tour video series follows the University Archivist, Todd Kosmerick, as he walks around the NC State campus discussing the history of university buildings and spaces. The walking tour videos feature images, videos, maps, architectural drawings, and other archival collection materials curated from the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). The University History Walking Tour project was first conceptualized by members of the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center and its Learning Spaces and Services department. The project team envisioned a series of 40 short-form videos that documented the history of university buildings and spaces for publication on the Libraries’ YouTube channel. Two major goals of this project were to promote primary source research in Special Collections and to develop content about university history that campus partners and units could utilize. The bulk of each video incorporates historical documents and audiovisual materials from the Special Collections Rare and Unique Digital Collections website, which are directly linked in the YouTube description box. Some resources used in the videos are digitized 16mm film reels on the Burlington Nuclear Reactor Laboratories and NC State Basketball Highlights from the 1950s (see the Burlington Nuclear Labs and Reynolds Coliseum videos for reference).