Matthew B. Sellers Photograph Collection (Carter County Public Library)

The Matthew B. Sellers Photograph Collection contains photographs of aviation inventions, residential properties, and images of family members of inventor Matthew B. Sellers.

Matthew Bacon Sellers Jr., born on March 29, 1869, was a American inventor and scientist known for his pioneering work in aerodynamics and light aircrafts. On December 28, 1908, in Carter County, Kentucky, near Olive Hill, he made his first flight successful flight. It was also the first mechanized flight of an aircraft in the State of Kentucky. His innovations included patents of a retractable landing gear and several others related to aerial navigation. He contributed to numerous articles to scientific journals and magazines and was on a founding federal body that eventually became NASA. He died on April 5, 1932, in Irvington, New York after being exposed to a cold wind while flying kites with his two sons on Long Island Sound. He is buried at Ardsley-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

Morehead News Archive (Newspaper Archive)

The Morehead News was a local newspaper published in Morehead, Kentucky from 1963 to 2020 and was the successor to the Rowan County News. William Edward Crutcher was the publisher and Marvin Wilson Jr. the editor at its relaunch in 1963. The collection begins on January 17, 1963.

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection (Robert "Bob" Twiggs Spacecraft Engineering Collection)

The Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection consists of PowerPoint presentations, videos, published articles, research reports, etc. created or collected by Prof. Twiggs during his career as an aerospace engineer and professor of space systems engineering from 1984 to 2025. The collection includes materials created by Prof. Twiggs, along with selected work by other scientists and researchers, and documents small satellite education, university spacecraft projects, and efforts to make space engineering more accessible.

Known as the “Father of the CubeSat,” Prof. Robert “Bob” Twiggs is an American aerospace engineer, educator, and emeritus Professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University. He is best known as the co-inventor, with Jordi Puig-Suari, of the CubeSat reference design, a small satellite standard that helped universities, researchers, companies, and government organizations gain more affordable access to space. Twiggs was also critical in the invention and development of several other educational satellite concepts, including CanSat, PocketQube, and ThinSat. Across his career, Twiggs has focused on hands-on STEM education, using small satellites and related projects to teach students how to design, build, test, and operate real space systems.

The materials gathered include course lectures, space systems engineering presentations, student project materials, mission concepts, technical explanations, outreach resources, historical reflections, and related work by colleagues and collaborators in aerospace engineering and satellite construction. Together, the collection shows how small satellites became not only a new class of spacecraft but also a new way to teach engineering, science, teamwork, systems thinking, and innovation. For students, this collection offers a window into the practical foundations of spacecraft design and mission development. For educators, it provides examples of how complex aerospace concepts can be translated into approachable, project-based learning. For historians of spaceflight, it preserves evidence of the educational movement that helped make small satellites a global phenomenon. For engineers and entrepreneurs, it shows how standards, constraints, and simplicity can unlock new forms of participation in space.

Rowan County Histories Collection (Rowan County Public Library)

The Rowan County Histories Collection consists of histories from Rowan County and Eastern Kentucky collected and organized by the Rowan County Historical Society and housed in the Rowan County Public Library in Morehead, Kentucky. The collection includes, histories on significant historical events, people, and places associated to Rowan County, Kentucky.

The Rowan County Historical Society was established in 1977 as a group of people who shared a common interest in any phase of the history of Rowan County, Kentucky and vicinity. Members work to organize historical research and promote community awareness of all aspects of the county’s heritage, which includes publications on the history of Rowan County.

WMKY Audio Recordings Archive (Library and Archives)

The WMKY Audio Recordings Archive collection consist of digitized audio recordings of radio programs broadcasted on the National Public Radio station located on the campus of Morehead State University. WMKY, at 90.3 FM, which has served the communities of eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio and western West Virginia since 1965. The radio station offers regional news, public affairs and documentary programming, as well as a variety of regional music programs consisting of classical, jazz and Americana (bluegrass, blues, folk and traditional/old-time). Included with the collection are audio recordings acquired and retained by the radio station from events held on the Morehead State campus prior to 2005.

The quality of the audio recordings may vary considerably depending upon the method in which it was recorded and stored.

Digitization and metadata provided by Dieter Ullrich, David Ace and April Morgan