Spartan Stories
Tales from the UNCG University Archives
library
The Road that Divided the Campus – Walker Avenue and its closing
by Scott Hinshaw From the earliest days of the school, Walker Avenue had bisected campus, forcing students to cross the busy street (often multiple times daily) to access buildings on both sides. The dining halls, science building, home economics building, gymnasium, and many residence halls were all located north of Walker, while the library, Curry, […]
Elizabeth “Libby” Holder: Bridging Woman’s College and UNC Greensboro in the Library
by Erin Lawrimore On August 1, 1947, Elizabeth “Libby” Holder arrived at the Woman’s College (now UNCG) campus to start work as the new Assistant Circulation Librarian. The library was housed in the Carnegie Library (now the Forney Building), which had been built in 1905. And many of the faculty members from the earliest years […]
The Library as a Hub of Learning (Part One)
Since the school’s founding in 1892, the library has played a central role in supporting faculty research and student learning. From its humble beginnings in a single classroom to its current massive holdings of physical collections and online journals and databases, the library has sought to keep pace with emerging scholarly trends, changing researcher needs, evolving […]
The College Archives Committee
by Sean Mulligan Annual Report of the College Archives Committee Prior to 1958, there was no organized method for acquiring and preserving the official records created by Woman’s College (now UNCG). The need and importance of establishing such a process was brought to the administration’s attention in August 1956 in a letter from A.F. Kuhlman, […]
The 1932 Carnegie Library Fire
by Sean Mulligan Carnegie Library after the fire On October 2, 1905, the library at the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) moved from a small room in the Main building (now the Foust building) to the newly constructed Carnegie Library (now the Forney Building). Recognizing the ever […]
Annie Petty, State Normal’s First Librarian
by Erin Lawrimore The library room in the Administration Building, circa 1895 When State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) first opened its doors in October 1892, it did not have a library or library books. Yet, founding president Charles Duncan McIver spoke adamantly of the “Library we are to have,” and he personally donated […]
