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Reflecting Forward: The Digital Underground Series
![Brittany Bertazon in Reading Room](/media/images/Brittany_Bertazon_in_Reading_Room.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.png)
Posted on Feb. 23, 2021, 11:17 a.m.
Visualizing our past in the context of our future as a library and community.
Inside SCRC | Abolitionist Materials
![black woman wearing mask standing next to materials from archives](/media/images/abolitionist.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 22, 2021, 4 p.m.
Petrina Jackson spotlights anti-slavery and abolitionist collection items.
Bento-box Focus Group
![NCSU Libraries' bento box search results for systematic review](/media/images/NCSU-Bento-Box.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 19, 2021, 12:36 p.m.
NCSU Libraries’ bento-style search interface
Researching Stenogravures, Crystopal and Armand Winfield
![Blue-green sample of Crystopal. Plastics Artifacts Collection.](/media/images/Blue-green_sample_of_Crystopal._Pl.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 17, 2021, 7:12 p.m.
Stenogravures are very strong and are akin to stone carvings
Film and Media Roundtable Announces 2021 Notable Films
![orange video camera icon over blue overlaid photo of Bird Library](/media/images/Video-Guide_cover.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 15, 2021, 9:34 a.m.
Movie clapper icon by Shmector is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Reconstructing Racial Equality in Syracuse
![Description of CORE from the first issue of their newsletter “In the Wind.”](/media/images/Reconstructing-Racial-Equality.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 10, 2021, 7 p.m.
Syracuse’s Interstate 81 has played a major role in the racial, social, and economic landscape of the city.
Black History Month Resources 2021
![Black History](/media/images/History.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 10, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
Although not comprehensive, highlights from our collections in celebration of Black History Month include:
Research Starting Points
![student working on a laptop with stacks of books](/media/images/Research-Starting-Points-student-l.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 8, 2021, 10:03 a.m.
Explore the Syracuse Universities Libraries website
75 Years of Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Parenting
![Spock talking with a patient at the health center. Benjamin Spock and Mary Morgan Papers.](/media/images/Spock.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 3, 2021, 6:32 p.m.
2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Marcel Breuer auf Deutsch
![A handwritten digitized Breuer letter in German that proved hard to read when I first opened it. Marcel Breuer Papers.](/media/images/A_handwritten_digitized_Breuer_let.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 14, 2021, 4:08 p.m.
Letters from the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive.
Inside SCRC | World War I American Red Cross Posters
![poster illustration of person wearing red cross uniform with arm around another person](/media/images/red_cross.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
World War I-era American Red Cross posters
Everyone Wants the Libraries to Acquire Textbooks for Student Use
![stacks of textbooks](/media/images/textbooks.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 7, 2021, 12:09 p.m.
Acquiring textbooks at the Libraries is a complex issue.
Animals in the Stacks
![Ink drawings of whales with the unit of measurement “barrels,” in this case oil. Barzillai Pease Journals.](/media/images/Ink_drawings_of_whales_with_the_un.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 6, 2021, 6:41 p.m.
Inspired by the Getty Collection, materials from our archives for animals within our own collection.
2020 Year in Review
![A happay new century to you](/media/images/A_happay_new_century_to_you.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 23, 2020, 4:40 p.m.
As we reach the end of a decidedly unprecedented and unusual year, let’s look back on some of the topics we researched, discussed, and discovered in SCRC’s collections this year.
Inside SCRC | Pan Am Flight 103 Archives: Shannon Davis
![handwritten postcard](/media/images/shannon_davis.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Postcard, written by Shannon Davis, victim of the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster, detailing her travels.
Tempering Virtue, Prohibiting Vice
![parker banner](/media/images/parker_banner.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 17, 2020, 4:16 p.m.
When the Volstead Act came into effect on January 17, 1920, it ushered in a 13-year period where alcohol’s production, sale, and distribution was prohibited by constitutional law.
In the Beginning of the Year and When it Ends: Memorials to Pan Am Flight 103
![Garden of Remembrance](/media/images/Garden_of_Remembrance_.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 9, 2020, 2:24 p.m.
December 21 will mark the 32nd anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 individuals from 21 countries.
Hail Librarians!: Reflecting on SU Library Service
![Students studying in Carnegie Library](/media/images/Students_studying_in_Carnegie_Libr.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 2, 2020, 3:18 p.m.
“Hail, Librarians, holders o’ the golden keys!”, wrote poet Frank Elijah Dudley in 1955.
November 2020 Wrap Up: Native American Heritage Month
![SUA Onondagan](/media/images/sua_onondagan.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Nov. 25, 2020, 6:50 p.m.
Researching Audrey “Gonwaiahhih” Shenandoah.