Shutterbugs, library fans, and proud Tar Heels are invited to participate in UNC’s first Library Snapshot Day on Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Activities will offer an opportunity to explore campus libraries and share what Carolina’s libraries mean to you.

Take a photograph of yourself with Sir Walter Raleigh in Wilson Library, your favorite children’s book in the School of Information and Library Science library, or enjoying the Samuel Hitt Medicinal Garden at the Health Sciences Library. Your photographs might help you win the Amazing UNC Libraries Race contest. Prizes include gift certificates and even a day of free parking behind Wilson Library!

Details and registration information coming soon.

Library Snapshot Day Happenings

All Day – The Amazing UNC Libraries Race contest

10 a.m. -  Story hour in the School of Information and Library Science Library, Manning Hall

11 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Photo booth at the Undergraduate Library (with snacks!)

Noon – 4 p.m. – Video booth in Davis Library (more snacks!)

1 p.m. – Behind-the-scenes tour of Davis Library (meet in the lobby)

5 p.m. - An Evening with NPR’s Carl Kasell, Friends of the Library event, GS200 Genome Sciences Building

The R.B. House Undergraduate Library has partnered with UNC Academic Advising and Campus Health Initiatives for Students’ Emerging Lifestyles (CHISEL) to create the “Week of Balance.” Other campus libraries will also offer special exam-time diversions.

Below is the full schedule for Fall 2012. Campus libraries will offer extended hours for reading and exam days.

Good luck with exams, everyone!

Thursday, Dec. 6

• Therapy dogs for students: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (212 Undergraduate Library)* and 12:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. (268 Carroll Hall)
• Take a Break; Make a Book!: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Davis Library 1st floor)
• Winter Stories for children of all ages: 5 p.m. (Wilson Library)
• Free coffee: 6 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (Music Libary)
• Meditation led by Linda C. Chupkowski: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. (205 Undergraduate Library)*
• Coffee and snack break: 10 p.m. – Midnight (205 Undergraduate Library)*

Friday, Dec. 7

• Crafting: Learn to Knit: 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Sloane Art Library)
• Learn to Make a Small Book: 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. (Sloane Art Library)
• Free coffee: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. (Music Library)

Saturday, Dec. 8

• Free tea: Noon – 6 p.m. (Sloane Art Library)

Sunday, Dec. 9

• Free tea: 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Sloane Art Library)
• Crafting: Holiday Cards: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. (205 Undergraduate library)*

Monday, Dec. 10

• Crafting: Gingerbread Houses: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. (205 Undergraduate Library)*

Tuesday, Dec. 11

• Project Sunshine: Card making for children with medical challenges: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. (205 Undergraduate Library)*

Wednesday, Dec. 12

• Therapy dogs for students: Noon – 4 p.m. (268 Carroll Hall)

* Denotes an official “Week of Balance” event, sponsored by Campus Health Initiatives for Students’ Emerging Lifestyles (CHISEL), UNC Academic Advising, and the R.B. House Undergraduate Library.

On Dec. 6 from 1 to 3 p.m., preservation staff will show you how to make a small pamphlet that you get to keep. All materials are provided. The whole process takes about ten minutes.

Look for the table in the periodicals room, to the right as you enter Davis Library.

For more information, contact Susan Griffin in the Preservation Department: (919) 962-1324, griffins@email.unc.edu.

Download event flier (pdf)

Gridiron Glory Film Showings
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (continuous 20-minute loop)
Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: (919) 962-3765 or wilsonlibrary@unc.edu

The football rivalry between UNC and North Carolina State University will be played out in the archives as well as on the field Oct. 27.

In this third annual Gridiron Glory event, great football moments from UNC’s past will again be on view in the Wilson Special Collections Library, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The 20-minute film, Gridiron Glory, will run in a continuous loop during the University’s Tar Heel Town pregame festivities.

New this year, the UNC University Archives and the NCSU University Archives will team up for an exhibit of football memorabilia from both schools. Programs from past match-ups between the two, historical photographs of both teams, and student newspapers will be on view. UNC and NCSU have been football rivals since 1894.

A special feature will be materials from the collection of Jack Hilliard, UNC class of 1963, including pennants, ticket stubs, bubble-gum cards, and sheet music for the song “All The Way Choo Choo” about UNC great Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice.

The film showings and exhibit are free and open to the public.

The archival film clips in Gridiron Glory feature highlights from 13 UNC games played between 1934 and 1985. Woody Durham, who retired last year as the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” provides the narration.

Among the highlights are:

• UNC’s first game against #1-ranked Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium in 1949, with a brief appearance by an injured Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice (#22);
• Justice passing, running, and kicking in the 1950 Cotton Bowl game against Rice University;
• All-America #85 Bob Lacey in the 1963 UNC vs. University of Virginia game;
• #20 “Famous Amos” Lawrence rushing against East Carolina in 1978.

Gridiron Glory films are drawn from the University Archives in Wilson Library, where they are part of the records of the UNC Football Office. Most are original 16mm recordings and are badly in need of repair.

To learn more about the University Archives’ football collections and the efforts to preserve UNC’s football films, contact Jay Gaidmore, University Archivist, gaidmore@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-6402.

Related Links

• Gridiron Glory preview (video selections only, no voice-over)
• Photos of Woody Durham recording sound for Gridiron Glory

Download event flier (pdf)

Researching African American Family History Workshop
Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012
Wilson Special Collections Library
9:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries | Main Lobby
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Program | Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Register by emailing Biff Hollingsworth at biff@unc.edu

Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

Researching and preserving African American family history will be the topic of a workshop at UNC on Saturday, Apr. 14.

The workshop will focus on resources and methods for genealogical research; preservation of African American family collections; and use of primary sources in library collections.

The free public event, set for 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Wilson Special Collections Library, is being sponsored by the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) and the Friends of the Library. Due to space limitations, attendees are requested to register by emailing Biff Hollingsworth at biff@unc.edu.

Coffee and pastries will be available for workshop participants at 9:30 a.m.

Speakers:

• Dorothy Spruill Redford, former manager of the Somerset Place State Historic Site and the author of Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage, will discuss use of primary resources such as the Southern Historical Collection’s Pettigrew Family Papers,  Anne Cameron Collins Papers, and Cupola House Papers to document her enslaved ancestors at Somerset Plantation.

• Holly Smith and Biff Hollingsworth, UNC librarians in the Southern Historical Collection, will discuss how to preserve personal collections of archival material and how to use library resources to conduct genealogical research on African Americans.

• Joey Fink of the Southern Oral History Program will share tips for conducting oral history projects.

The workshop is part the African American Family Documentation Initiative, an effort to acquire and make available for research a wide range of archival materials (letters, journals, photographs, and the like) to document the experiences of black North Carolinians and their families.

Also included in the initiative is the exhibit Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina, on view in the Southern Historical Collection (4th floor) through July 1, 2012.

The exhibit tells the stories of black families and communities in the South, and encourages African American families to partner with the Library in preserving their family history.

To learn more about the African American Family Documentation Initiative, contact Holly Smith in the Southern Historical Collection at (919) 962-1345 or email wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Related Links:

• Southern Historical Collection (SHC)

• Exhibit Encourages African American Families to Preserve Their History

• African American Family Documentation Initiative

• UNC Press page for Dorothy Spruill Redford’s Somerset Homecoming

Download event flier (pdf)

UPDATE: The exhibit of Ronald Searle illustrations in Wilson Library has been extended through Oct. 31, 2011.

Let’s Have a Bite! A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes
A reading by children’s author Bob Forbes
Saturday, May 7, 2011
1 – 5 p.m. Wilson Library Open House (Treasures from the special collections | Exhibition of Ronald Searle illustrations | Refreshments)
3 p.m. Program
Wilson Special Collections Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

All ages are invited to “a banquet of beastly rhymes” with author Bob Forbes, as he reads from his newest collection of poetry for children, on Saturday, May 7, at 3 p.m., in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Let’s Have a Bite! A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes (Overlook Press) features thirty-three “delectable rhymes about animals naughty and nice.” Characters including a photogenic buffalo, a color-changing emu, and a well-dressed narwhal are illustrated by British artist Ronald Searle, famous for his book series about St. Trinian’s School and for work appearing in The New Yorker, Le Monde, and other publications.

The reading will take place as part of an open house in Wilson Library from 1 to 5 p.m., during which visitors will be able to see treasures from the special collections, view an exhibition of thirty-eight original Searle illustrations for Forbes’s book Beastly Feasts! A Mischievous Menagerie in Rhyme (Overlook Juvenile, 2007), and enjoy refreshments. All activities  are free and open to the public.

Forbes (UNC class of 1971) is the president of the magazine ForbesLife, the luxury lifestyle and culture publication of Forbes magazine.

Books will be available for sale and signing (by Forbes), courtesy of the Bull’s Head Bookshop.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

The Ronald Searle illustrations will be on display in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room May 2 – Oct. 31, 2011, and available for public viewing as meeting schedules allow.

Related Links

• Bob Forbes’s website

Download event flier (pdf)

Make Your Own Book at Library Preservation Event April 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
1-4 p.m
Davis Library Room 214 (behind the elevators)
Free and open to the public
Information: Ardys Weiss, (919) 962-1324

The staff of the Library’s Preservation Department invites you to make your own book.

On the afternoon of April 27, room 214 Davis Library will become a makeshift bindery. Students, faculty, staff, and visitors will be able to sew—and keep—a small pamphlet with a decorative cover. The sewing process will only take about ten minutes.

Visitors will also be able to see examples of preservation work including book repairs, binding samples, disaster response materials, and digital reproduction.

The event is in honor of national Preservation Week, sponsored by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.

For more information, contact Ardys Weiss, Preservation Department, (919) 962-1324.

Related Links

• UNC Library Preservation Book Care and Handling Guidelines

• Preservation Week

Music and Stories for Children of All Ages with Faye Stanley

An interactive performance by Faye Stanley on April 25 will feature an array of musical and multicultural games, stories, and songs for all ages. The free public program will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson Special Collections Library. Children and families are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Stanley’s performances are known for making connections across cultural boundaries and empowering groups to realize their own artistic capabilities.

Stanley directs Duke University’s Arts and Engagement Project and serves on the North Carolina Arts Council’s Arts in Education Advisory Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in voice and a master’s degree in education. Her books include The Teaching Artist Toolbox: Connecting Your Art and the School. She also wrote the JAM Guide for the North Carolina Arts Council, outlining programming for cultural music traditions in after-school programs.

This program is part of the series “Exploring Diversity Through the Cultural and Performing Arts,” sponsored by the University Library Diversity Committee, with assistance from the UNC Performing Arts and Special Activities Fund.

Related Links

• Clapping Dog (Faye Stanley’s website)

Download flier (pdf)

Mittens and a Warm Heart
18th Annual Winter Stories Program for Children of All Ages
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010
Wilson Special Collections Library
5 p.m. Refreshments, Main Lobby
5:15 p.m. Music and 5:30 p.m. Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 962-4207

Storytellers and musicians will entertain children of all ages at Friends of the Library‘s 18th annual Winter Stories program on Dec. 9 in Wilson Library.

This year’s program, with the theme “Mittens and a Warm Heart,” will feature tales from Japan, Nigeria, and other locations around the world, along with live instrumental music and sing-alongs.

Storytellers will be Brian Sturm, associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS); Amy Sayle, adult programs coordinator at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium; Dave Pcolar, systems specialist at the UNC Library; and SILS students Karen Crenshaw, Stephanie McKee, and Kimberly Hirsh.

Instrumental music will be provided by guitarist and SILS library assistant Kate Barnhart; fiddler and SILS student Beth DeBold;  guitarist Eric Martin; harpist and SILS PhD student Ericka Patillo; flutist and music library assistant Terry Patrickis; cellist and SILS student Hannah Pierce; and fiddler Steven Wiggins.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a new or gently-used children’s book to contribute to a book drive for the Book Fairy, an organization that donates children’s books to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic at UNC Hospitals. In 2009, the campus book drive gathered 2,377 books.

This year the need is especially great for English and Spanish-language board books, the sturdy picture books that can withstand repeated use by very young children.

Related Links

• Book Drive information

John Caldwell, lecturer in Hindi-Urdu in the Department of Asian Studies at UNC, will present a lecture on the Cultural Significance of Dance March 2, at 1 p.m., in Wilson Library.

Two dance performances will follow the lecture:

Sneha Samuels, a senior at Jordan High School in Durham, N.C., will perform “Desi Mix.” She choreographed the dance, which she calls “freestyle, but heavily influenced by traditional dance.”

The OPEYO! Dancers is a subgroup of the Black Student Movement at UNC. According to their Web site, the group provides “an outlet for artistic expression and community outreach through various genres of dance.”

The program is the first of a series entitled “Exploring Diversity Through the Cultural Arts,” hosted by the University Library’s Diversity Committee and supported by a grant from the University’s Performing Arts Fund.

For questions about the program or the series, contact Katelyn Ander at khander@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-2559.