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Staff Members and Addresses

Introduction

Access and Availability of Materials

General List of Collections

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 Acquisitions

    Publications

    Past Exhibitions

  • Celebrating Five Million Volumes: Materials from the William Butler Yeats Collection
  • A Collector's Passion: The Kidney in the History of Medicine
  • Walker Percy: From Pen to Print
  • Geniuses Together: Literary Expatriates in Paris from Gertrude Stein & James Joyce to Samuel Beckett & the Beats
  • Lines Drawn in the Sand: The Life & Writings of Allen Ginsberg
  • Jack Kerouac: The Road Revisited
  • Nobel times Four: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney
  • Unearthing the Maya: Highlights of the Stuart Collection
  • A Being More Intense: British Romantic Writers in the Rare Book Collection
  • Digitized RBC TextsDescription of Categories

  • Biography
  • Literature
  • Religion in the South
  • Slavery and its Effects

  • Listed by Author

    Digitized RBC texts related to the Civil War (by topic):
    BusinessEducationGovt. Documents of the Confederate States of AmericaLiteratureMedicineMiscellaneousPoliticsReligionMilitary LifeState Documents

    RBC hours:
    Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM
    Saturday, 9AM-1PM.
    Telephone: 919.962.1143
    rbcref@email.unc.edu

    Location:3rd floor, Wilson Library

    RBC Announcements

    NEW Exhibition: April 21-July 3, 2008
    The Beats & Beyond
    builds on successful prior exhibitions treating Ferlinghetti (2002), Ginsberg (2004), and Kerouac (2005) to launch a broader examination of American counterculture poetry between World War II and the Vietnam War. Beats & BeyondThis exhibition showcases over 100 publications and manuscript items associated with writers from the Black Mountain poets, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, and two generations of the New York School of Poets. It also examines the literary counterculture's engagement with censorship, feminism, Black nationalism, and the Vietnam War. Poets represented include Ginsberg, Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, and Amiri Baraka.
    Time & Location: Open during regular RBC hours. Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibition Gallery in Wilson Library (3rd floor). Complimentary copies of this exhibition's catalog available in RBC, or by request: rbcref@email.unc.edu

    RBC mailing address:
    Rare Book Collection
    CB# 3936 Wilson Library
    University of North Carolina
    Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

    Questions?
    919.962.1143 / rbcref@email.unc.edu

     
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