

{"id":4445,"date":"2019-08-02T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:02:14","slug":"wheres-scrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2019\/08\/02\/wheres-scrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s SCRC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/12\/Charles-late-july-2019-300x225-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5664\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since you&#8217;ve heard from us in the Special Collections Research Center&#8230;because of our move to the new Charles Library.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/12\/UL-crane-and-boxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5663\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the interim, we&#8217;ve learned how to use the &#8220;Boxbot&#8221; and loaded over 12,000 boxes into it. We&#8217;ve shifted over 5000 feet of materials into the Library Depository. And we&#8217;re hoping to start moving the final 7000 feet of materials, including the contents of the rare book vault, into basement storage in Charles in early August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve been answering your questions as best we can, given the periodic inaccessibility of parts of the collection.&nbsp; Thanks to so many of you who are waiting patiently for us to reopen and answer your questions or who have changed your research schedule to allow for our closure.&nbsp; Thanks, too, to our patient donors who have held collections until we are ready to receive them this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now is the time for faculty members who want to schedule instruction sessions with us to start sending us those requests.&nbsp; We very much look forward to hosting you in our new instruction room and working with you and your students.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/12\/SCRC-reading-room-new-builidng-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/files\/2025\/12\/SCRC-reading-room-new-builidng-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5662\" style=\"width:459px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SCRC reading room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Please don&#8217;t hesitate to be in touch with questions:&nbsp; 215-204-8257 or scrc@temple.edu .&nbsp; We look forward to serving you in our new space in late August\/early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;SCRC staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since you&#8217;ve heard from us in the Special Collections Research Center&#8230;because of our move to the new Charles Library. In the interim, we&#8217;ve learned how to use the &#8220;Boxbot&#8221; and loaded over 12,000 boxes into it. We&#8217;ve shifted over 5000 feet of materials into the Library Depository. And we&#8217;re hoping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2019\/08\/02\/wheres-scrc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where&#8217;s SCRC?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,6],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-history-news","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}