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Rare Book Collection
CB# 3936 Wilson Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
HOURS: (excluding CLOSINGS as noted below)
RBC Reading Room: M-F, 8AM-5PM
Saturdays: Please contact RBC staff (in advance) to discuss possible access to
Rare Book Collection materials on Saturday.
Location: 3rd floor, Wilson Library
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibition Gallery
M-F, 8AM-5PM & Saturday 9AM-1PM
Location: 3rd floor, Wilson Library
Rare Book Collection News & Events:
All posted events are free & open to the public.
GALLERY TALK:
Friday, May 15 & Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:30-4:30PM.
Join curators Libby Chenault and Jessica Martell on an informative tour of the Rare Book Collection's current exhibition,
 Joycean Generosity, Joycean Books. They will offer behind-the-scenes details
on the exhibition,which includes the essential
publications of James Joyce and related works by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath,
and James Dickey. Event Flier (PDF)
Location: Please assemble in the Melba Remig Saltarelli
Gallery at 3:30PM on these days. Gallery Location
& Hours
New EXHIBITION:
Joycean Generosity, Joycean Books
April 17-June 30, 2009 Gallery Hours
Joycean Generosity, Joycean Books honors gifts from James R. and Mary M. Patton
to the UNC Library. The exhibition features 30 Joyce items, as well as works
by poets Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and James Dickey—all gifts of the Pattons. Dickey's work Deliverance was made into a successful movie in 1972.
Libby Chenault, rare book collection librarian, describes the Patton books as "impeccable": "Each copy is distinctive
and the condition is almost as issued. This is the kind of collection that people
who are interested in James Joyce dream about." The Joyce collection adds to the
Rare Book Collection's strong collection of Irish literature, which includes works
by four Nobel Prize laureates, William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw
(1925), Samuel Beckett (1969), and Seamus Heaney (1995). Exhibition Flier (PDF)
Location: Melba Remig Saltarelli Gallery (Wilson Library, 3rd floor)
Gallery
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Exhibit Honors Gift of James Joyce Collection
 LECTURE:
Exhibition Opening
5:45PM, April 17, 2009
Professor Scott Klein (Wake Forest University) will present a talk to celebrate the
opening of Joycean Generosity, Joycean Books. Professor Klein is a specialist on
Joyce and the twentieth-century English novel. His talk will examine connections
between Joyce's literary complexity and his characters' (and readers') experiences as
they journey to comprehend their worlds. Event Flier (PDF)
Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room (Wilson Library, 2nd floor)
RBC Closings—Spring & Summer 2009:
Friday, July 3 & Saturday July 4 (July 4 Holiday)
Saturday, May 23-Monday, May 25 (Memorial Holiday)
Friday, April 10 & Saturday April 11(Spring Holiday)
Special Collections Conservation Lab : 919.843.8476
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