Rare Book Collection News & Events:
All posted events are free & open to the public.
WORKSHOP: Comic Book Collector's Workshop
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11 am - 1 pm
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a Comic Book Collector's Workshop! Join the Rare Book Collection for a panel discussion about Collecting Comic Books on November 21, 2009 from 11am - 1pm in the Rare Book Reading Room. Don't miss this opportunity to interact with the experts, get information on developing and preserving your collection, and look at dozens of rare, unique, and popular comics. Panelists will include: Dr. Libby Chenault, Rare Book Librarian; Daniel Breen, collector and donor; Andrew Neal, owner of Chapel Hill Comics; Ben Bolling, PhD. student in the English department; and April Brewer, Public Services Librarian.
Workshop flier (PDF)
Also featured in: UNC Libraries News and Events
DIGITAL PROJECT: World War I Postcards from the Bowman Gray Collection
Available November 11, 2009
About 2,000 postcards from the First World War will make their Internet debut on Veterans Day on the Web site of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
The site, available on November 11, will be http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/graypc/. The postcards are the first of nearly 6,400 that the library plans to digitize by June 2010.
They are drawn from the Bowman Gray Collection of World Wars I and II in the Rare Book Collection of the Wilson Special Collections Library. The Bowman Gray Collection features 16,000 graphic images from the wars including prints, postcards and posters. The digitized postcard collection, when completed, will be the largest such presentation on the Web.
Also featured in: UNC News
RBC Closings—Winter 2009-2010:
December 24 - December 27, 2009: CLOSED. Regular hours resume Monday, December 28.
December 31 - January 3, 2010: CLOSED. Regular hours resume Monday, January 4.
January 16 - January 18, 2010: CLOSED. Regular hours resume Tuesday, January 19.