Guide to Archives and Special Collections 

This page is designed to help you use the Archives and Special Collections.  For information on hours and access, please refer to the box on the right -->

We are in the process of adding several new online access features: 

• We have added a new Archives Blog that features online exhibits and displays, featured collections, and news from the Archives: http://mozart.radford.edu/archives/

• We're adding new software to create and display finding aids - or information lists about what's in each of our collections. We hope to have this up and running in the fall of 2009.

• We are also updating and revising many of the archives webpages.

• Finally, we're adding a great software program called CONTENTdm. This will let us post photos, college yearbooks, and documents online in a format that's easy to search. We are currently testing this software and should be able to use it in the fall semester 2009.  Our first projects are 1) to post issues of the college yearbook, The Beehive, from 1961 up through 2005; and 2) to post historic photographs from RU's history. 

Our mission: The Radford University Archives and Special Collections supports the teaching, research and public service missions of McConnell Library by collecting, preserving, organizing, and making accessible materials that document the history of Radford University, Southwest Virginia, and Appalachia.  You can access the Archives website by clicking on this link: http://lib.radford.edu/Archives/

We welcome and encourage use of McConnell Library's Archives and Special Collections! 

Access is by appointment only during hours when the Archives are open.

Please contact Gene Hyde to make an appointment: 

wehyde@radford.edu

540-831-5692

Archives hours:

Monday - 12 noon - 8 PM

Tuesday - 9 AM - 5 PM

Wednesday - 9 AM - 5 PM

Thursday - 9 AM - 5 PM

Friday - 9 AM - 5 PM

(Hours may vary in the Summer - please call or email to make an appointment)