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Celebrate National Library Week (April 19-25) with Hunter Library remotely! Play our Bingo card and discover the treasures in our library’s digital collections. Let us know how you did by tagging us on Instagram or Twitter #HLBingo. Each block has a link to help you complete the task. Try filling… Read more »
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Hunter Library fire that started Sunday morning, February 26, 1989. The fire originated in the Media Center, which housed the library’s audiovisual equipment as well as the film, video, and compact disc collections. This area is now the HL 186 library classroom… Read more »
The film Green Book won 3 Golden Globe awards this week. The movie title refers to an essential guide for African-American travelers, who often encountered segregation and discrimination throughout their journeys. The guide was created by a postal worker named Victor H. Green (the covers of the books were also… Read more »
Hunter Library’s newest digital collection highlights Champion Fibre Company and the town of Canton in Haywood County, N.C. The growing collection includes over 1,100 photographs of the plant facilities and workforce as well as everyday life for community members. The archive also include oral histories of former mill workers and… Read more »
The newest digital collection focuses on World War II materials from Hunter Library’s Special Collections department. Current highlights of the collection come from the Carr and Ruth Hooper collection and the Venoy and Elizabeth Reed collection. Carr Hooper was born in the Cowarts community of Jackson County, North Carolina and… Read more »
Check out the new digital collection, Western North Carolina Regional Maps. This collection allows you to view maps based on location or by type, such as road maps, topographic maps and plat maps. Maps in this collection span from the 1800s to the 1970s. The images can be downloaded, shared… Read more »