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
2008 RBC Exhibitions
Digitized RBC Texts
Description of Categories
Find by category:
Biography
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Slavery and its Effects
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Digitized RBC texts related to the Civil War (by topic):
Business, Education, Govt. Documents of the Confederate States of America, Literature, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Politics, Religion, Military Life, State Documents
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HOURS (excluding CLOSINGS as noted below)
RBC Reading Room: Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM
Saturday Hours: Please contact RBC staff regarding access to RBC materials and/or current hours of the Rare Book Reading Room on Saturdays:
919.962.1143 or rbcref@email.unc.edu
Location: 3rd floor, Wilson Library
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibition Gallery:
Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM &
9AM-1PM on Saturdays for visitors to view the current exhibit (excluding CLOSINGS as noted below).
Location: 3rd floor, Wilson Library
Contact RBC: 919.962.1143 / fax 919.962.4452
rbcref@email.unc.edu
RBC Announcements
All events are free & open to the public.
CURRENT EXHIBIT:
Nov. 20, 2008 - Mar. 15, 2009
Presenting John Keats
A first edition of John Keats's Poems (1817) marks the milestone 6-millionth volume to be acquired by UNC-CH's Libraries' collections. Presenting John Keats highlights the newly-acquired 500-item Keats Collection, purchased with support from the John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation of Winston-Salem. The strength of the Library's current collection holdings by English Romantic writers the late-18th and early-19th centuries, as well as other selections from the new Keats collection, will be on display to provide context for Keats and his works.
Location: Melba Remig Saltarelli Gallery, 3rd floor, Wilson Library. Gallery hours: M-F 8-5PM, Sat. 9AM-1PM, excluding CLOSINGS as noted below.
GALLERY TALK: December 12, 2008
3:30-4:30 PM
Dr. Libby Chenault, Exhibition Curator, will discuss the process of preparing and selecting the materials for the current RBC exhibition, Presenting John Keats.
RBC CLOSINGS, FALL 2008-JAN. 2009:
Thanksgiving Recess: 11/27-11/29; hours resume M 12/1.
Reading Room Maintenance: 12/20; hours resume M 12/22.
Winter Break Closing: 12/23-12/28; hours resume M 12/29.
New Year's Holiday: 1/1-1/2/2009; hours resume M 1/5/2009.
Rare Book Collection
CB# 3936 Wilson Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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