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The Alison Stirling Collection
The cataloged material in the Stirling, or
North Carolina Room, includes books,
pamphlets, sound recordings (folk music and tales and field interviews),
videotapes, and microfilm (primarily local area newspapers).
It is classified by the Dewey system.
Most of the uncataloged materials consist of
loose clippings, brochures, leaflets and other such media in the
collection’s vertical files. A
subject guide
to the vertical files identifies general categories.
A series of box files preserves materials on topics with a
proliferating literature or of a particular interest.
Other uncataloged material includes maps and prints.
The collection contains many artifacts; these
range from an impressive hand-built lathe once used in the campus
woodworking shop to pottery by famed North Carolina master potter Ben Owen.
The collection doubles, then, as a campus museum.
The photos, artifacts, papers and many other items
related to the history of Lees-McRae College are located in the
archives of
Lees-McRae College.
