Question Box: What does the Special Collections & Archives department do?

C2M's Alicia Thayer talks to the Special Collections & Archives unit about their Mason Memorabilia Exhibit and GMU History Project (Alicia Thayer).

Have you ever wondered what the George Mason University Special Collections & Archives department was? The SC & A is a unit within the University Library system that collects items of interest, such as documents dissertations, theses and more, and compiles them into exhibits, archives them, and preserves them.

Recently, C2M's Alicia Thayer sat down with Robert Vay, the digital collections archivist for SC & A, and discussed the projects.

One project that the SC & A has been working recently is the Mason Memorabilia Exhibit. The exhibit collects items such as photographs, yearbooks, spirit wear and many other pieces of interest related to Mason and displays them for the university community to view.

Additionally, another project being worked on is the GMU History Project, an undertaking within the unit “to create a online history of the university,” said Vay, “it’s sort of a living history of the university told through archives, through material, through original documents.”

Special Collections & Archives is located in room C-204 in Fenwick Library.
 

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