Featured Collections
Bernard J. Flatow Collection of
Latin American Cronistas
Carl W. Gottschalk Collection on the Human
Kidney
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Collection
Edie Parker and Henri Cru Papers
George Bernard Shaw Collection
Southern Pamphlet Collection
William Butler Yeats Collection
Recent RBC Exhibitions
The ABC of Collecting Everyman's Library: Archives, Books, Collectors" (2008)
A Being More Intense: British Romantic Writers in the Rare Book Collection (2007)
Unearthing the Maya: Highlights of the Stuart Collection (2007)
Nobel times Four: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney (2006)
Digitized RBC Texts
Description of Categories
Find by category:
Biography
Literature
Religion in the South
Slavery and its Effects
Listed by Author
Digitized RBC texts related to the Civil War (by topic):
Business, Education, Govt. Documents of the Confederate States of America, Literature, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Politics, Religion, Military Life, State Documents
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RBC hours: Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM
Location: 3rd floor, Wilson Library
Effective June 9, 2008, the RBC Reading Room is closed on Saturdays.
Researchers must contact RBC staff regarding Saturday appointments:
919.962.1143 or rbcref@email.unc.edu.
The Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibition Gallery area remains accessible
9AM-1PM on Saturdays for visitors to view the current exhibit. Contact RBC:
phone 919.962.1143 / fax 919.962.4452
rbcref@email.unc.edu
RBC Announcements
CURRENT Exhibition: April 21-July 3, 2008
The Beats & Beyond
builds on successful prior exhibitions treating Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg,
and Kerouac to launch a broader examination of American counterculture poetry
between World War II and the Vietnam War.
This exhibition showcases over 100 publications and manuscript items associated
with the Black Mountain poets, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, and two generations of the New York School of Poets. Poets represented include Ginsberg, Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, and Amiri Baraka.
Time & Location: M-F 8AM-5PM; SAT 9AM-1PM. Melba Remig Saltarelli
Exhibition Gallery in Wilson Library (3rd floor). Complimentary exhibition catalog available in RBC, or by request: rbcref@email.unc.edu
NEW! Beats and Beyond opening events (April 22-23, 2008) AUDIO & PHOTOS now online!
UPCOMING: July 14-September 30, 2008
Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America "Hecho a mano" means "made by hand," and this exhibition will feature nearly 100 handmade books from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina. Preview selections from the exhibition now, or download an event flier.
Rare Book Collection
CB# 3936 Wilson Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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