Special Collections Research Center
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The SCRC's mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible primary resources and rare or unique materials, including archives, books, images, manuscripts, maps, microforms, directories, theses, dissertations, faculty publications, periodicals, and ephemera to all researchers regardless of institutional affiliation.
The Special Collections Research Center is located on the seventh
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NEWS AND NOTES
Special Collections Closed Monday, May 25
The Special Collections Research Center will be closed on Monday, May 25 for the Memorial Day holiday. Regular hours will resume Tuesday, May 26.
New Primary Source Database: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
Gelman Library now subscribes to the database "Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970," which provides access to primary sources held by the British National Archives.
New Labor Journal, Books Strengthen Labor Studies Resources
Gelman Library now provides access for GW patrons to the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, published by Duke University Press. The journal complements a growing body of materials on labor history in Special Collections.
Mass Transit: Take a Trip through DC’s 1970s Avant-garde Poetry Scene!
The Special Collections Research Center holds a complete run of Mass Transit, an avant-garde poetry publication from 1973-74 that serves as a written record of an open reading series that met weekly in the Community Book Shop in Dupont Circle.
Light of Day: Stephen on the Best Job in the World
Light of Day is a regular feature in which our student workers share some of the cool, strange, or interesting things they have found when working in Special Collections.
