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BLOG: Visit our Chapel Hill Rare Book Blog!
Learn more about the fascinating items in our collection, recent acquisitions, and other RBC news and events.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Encyclopedic Impulse
Feb. 27 - May 26, 2013
Selected volumes document the human impulse to collect and organize knowledge.
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UPCOMING EVENT:
Recent Acquisitions Evening
A not-under-glass display of additions to the Rare Book Collection from the past two years.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
5:00 pm | Wilson Library
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HOURS: NCC/RBC Reading Room
2nd floor, Wilson
M-F 9:00am-5:00pm
Sat 9:00am-1:00pm
Sun 1:00pm-5:00pm
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu
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WELCOME TO THE RARE BOOK COLLECTION
The Rare Book Collection at UNC Chapel Hill began in 1929, when the University acquired nearly 400 books printed in Europe before 1501. Today, the collection includes over 160,000 printed volumes, as well as substantial holdings of original graphics, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and literary and historical papers.
The RBC's diverse materials sustain the study of such varied topics as the New World cronistas, English and Irish literature, French history, fine printing, Spanish and Catalan drama, World Wars I and II, the Beat movement, the Russian Diaspora, Mayan archaeology, the Greek and Latin classics, as well as American popular culture.
Materials may be located using the UNC Library online catalog, as well as other finding aids:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/wilson/research/search.html
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