Special Collections and Archives

In the spring of 2020, SCA received a call from Mike Dehoff who modestly called himself a member of a “group of non-academic people following a curiosity.”  As a river runner and Moab business owner, Mike was in the process of forming a group that aspired to partner with non-profits to investigate rapids that were re- emerging in the Colorado River due to the mega drought.  Mike had discovered some Kolb film reels in our digital collections…

This month we celebrate two SCA team members for being honored with 2021 Service Awards from the Arizona Library Association.   Rich Boyd. AZLA 2021 Volunteer of the Year Award recipient.   In a future update we will learn about the projects Rich has been a part of over his many years of volunteering in Special Collections and Archives.  This time, however, we asked Sam Meier, Archivist for Discovery in SCA to tell us about an…

January 7th has been designated “Old Rock Day.”  A day to celebrate geology, fossils and geologists around the world.  We would like to honor two of our favorite ‘rock stars,” Peter Huntoon and George Billingsley who both have collections housed in Cline Library’s Special Collections and Archives.   As graduate students in 1970, these two giants of geology came together with six other geologists to complete an assignment funded by the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Grand Canyon Natural History Association…