Postcards are defined by their small size, but recently, some have taken on a new scale. New interior wall murals at Pack Memorial Library bring these pocket-sized scenes to larger-than-life dimensions. Buncombe County Special Collections holds several thousand postcards depicting scenes of Asheville, Buncombe County, and Western North Carolina. For muralist Max Dowdle, they provided
BCSC's 2024 artist resident, photographer Eric William Carroll, recently opened a new exhibition in our reading room highlighting the rich range of scrapbooks in our public library collections. This blog post showcases favorite examples and shares his findings about the scrapbooks he encountered during the residency.
If you have visited the Special Collections reading room in the past few months, you may have noticed that there’s a new exhibition on view, featuring a variety of limited-run pamphlets, booklets, and artistic ephemera—zines! The exhibition Belonging and Non-Belonging: The History and Future of Zines in Western North Carolina is curated by Miles Lamberson,
Working in local history archives at UNCA Ramsey Library and at Pack Library’s North Carolina Room, I thought often about the many fascinating stories that remain hidden in the oral histories of both collections. Until the interview is transcribed, the story remains untold. Few people will have the time or the patience to listen to the