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Author Archives: Claudia Funke
It’s Spring Again
We’ve been hibernating for a few weeks, but now it truly is Spring – and time to reappear! Indeed, Chapel Hill is covered in a dusting of yellow pollen. And at the Rare Book Collection, we’ve turned to our shelves … Continue reading
The Adjective “Aframerican”
February has one extra day this year, and that gives us the chance to do one last post for Black History Month. While Christina Moody’s Tiny Spark is a favorite recent purchase, this inscribed copy of Claude McKay’s A Long … Continue reading
The Electrifying Tiny Spark
In recognition of Black History Month, we highlight one of our favorite RBC purchases of 2010-2011, Christina Moody’s Tiny Spark. Imagine a sixteen-year old African-American girl publishing a book of poetry in 1910: some of it in dialect, some of … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections, Events
Tagged African-American literature, Black History Month, Christina Moody, poetry
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Love Hidden Between Two Covers
Libraries often appear to be lonely-hearts clubs. Look around one most any day, not just Valentine’s Day. The act of silent reading is a solitary one. Sometimes, it can seem a bit sad. But there can be love in libraries … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!
February 7, 2012, is truly a hallowed date for the history of English literature, marking as it does, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great writer Charles Dickens. We could not forget, because the RBC includes a wonderful … Continue reading
Happy Holidays from the Rare Book Collection!
Best wishes to our friends and all book lovers for a happy and healthy New Year!
Fashion Sense and Beardsley Prints
Noted collector Mark Samuels Lasner closed the RBC’s fall season of events with a wonderfully informative and well-presented lecture on “Aubrey Beardsley and His Publishers.” Thursday evening November 10th, some seventy-five people listened to Samuels Lasner explain how three London … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Events
Tagged Aubrey Beardsley; Graphic Arts; Publishing; Mark Samuels Lasner
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Official Documents vs. Truth
UNC Professor of History Kathryn Burns delivered the RBC/ISA 2nd annual Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture last evening to an engaged and enthusiastic audience. Discussing her archival experiences in Cuzco that resulted in her recent book Into the Archive: Writing and Power … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Events
Tagged Archives, Colonial Peru, Hispanic Heritage Month, Kathryn Burns, Notarial Practice
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Banned and in the Rare Book Collection
One way that a book can become rare is to be banned. Banned books – the Rare Book Collection, it has them! A week ago, Tuesday evening, as part of the University-wide First Amendment Day, the Rare Book Collection sponsored … Continue reading
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