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    CONTACT RBC:
    919.962.1143 / rbcref@email.unc.edu
    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, jjiconJoycean 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 HoursJoyce books
    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
    Related Links:   Exhibit Honors Gift of James Joyce Collection

    Joyce portrait used by permission of the artist, Paula PohliLECTURE:
    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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