This collection contains materials that document Dr. Betty N. Smith’s long career as a musician, an educator, and an author. It includes information about awards Dr. Smith received, as well as specific documentation of aspects of her work. Posters, promotional materials, and recordings offer a window into Betty Smith’s work as a musician. Books, lesson plans, song lyrics, dulcimer tablature, and course outlines speak to her extensive experience as an educator of students from pre-school to senior citizen. The collection also features Betty Smith’s writings in a variety of genres, from song lyrics and poems to academic essays and her book and play about Jane Hicks Gentry. Research materials that supported Betty Smith’s teaching and writing are also part of this collection, as is extensive correspondence that offers insight into the breadth of her contacts and interactions in the music and Appalachian Studies world. The objects in the collection are plaques Betty Smith received as awards in music competitions, as well as weavings that she made.