NC State’s history

Henry Stover, a fourth-year studying art and design, was responsible for the design and layout of the exhibit. He said his intention was to make the exhibit different from previous ones done to celebrate women at NC State by using sources obtained by Arnold that haven’t previously been displayed.

“If there was a lot of material in the archives that Kelly found a lot of, like of one person who has all this stuff in the archives and we haven’t talked about them, then we put that out there,” Stover said. “As the library’s exhibit, we should show what’s in the archives, that’s sort of what makes our exhibit, we’re the people telling that story so we should use the resources that we have.”

The 15 exhibit cases are primarily divided into categories such as “Student Government and Activism” and “Women in WWII.” In addition to short biographies, photos and primary sources, many of the cases also contain QR codes to scan, leading to more information relevant to the corresponding category. Some of this online information includes oral histories, which Arnold said were vital to her research.

“Oral histories played such a big role in all the research that I did; it would have been fantastic to actually have some of those playing,” Arnold said. “They have a lot of really good information

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