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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER
Rare Books Unit• Scope of Collections
Scope of CollectionsThe Rare Books Unit's holdings focus principally on the areas of:
• Engineering and technology, The printed materials in the Rare Books Unit are primarily intended to supplement the unpublished materials found in the Manuscripts Unit and University Archives and reflect the collecting priorities of those two units. To that end, the curatorial staff endeavor to identify, locate, and acquire published materials which will fill in the gaps in, or provide background information to help interpret, the manuscript and archival collections of the Special Collections Research Center as a whole. MissionThe Rare Books Unit's mission is to collect, preserve and make available to NCSU students and faculty, and members of the community, rare, unique, or antiquarian materials in published form for instruction and research in support of NCSU's mission as a land grant institution. |
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qui vis cognoscere vires / huc Macer adest quo duce doctor eris. / Macer, Floridus [detail] |
Collecting Programs
The Special Collections Research Center is actively building its collections in a few specific collecting areas, including architecture and design, engineering and technology, history of science, natural resources, textiles, and the history of NC State University. To explore these collecting areas more fully, you can follow the links below:
- Architecture and Design
- Engineering and Technology
- History of Science
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Natural Resources
Het boek van PTT.
/ Zwart, Piet. [detail] - North Carolina State University History
- Textiles
- (See also: General List of Collections by Topic)
Origins of the Rare Books Unit
The Rare Books Unit was created along with the Manuscripts Unit when the Special Collections Department was established in 1993. At the same time, the University Archives, which had been established in the 1960s but with origins dating back to 1939, was integrated into the newly formed Department. In anticipation of the new facility being planned, the Department was renamed in 2004 as the Special Collections Research Center.
