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The Louis Round Wilson Library, located on Polk Place, is the home
of the University Library Special Collections at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Manuscripts
Department (including the Southern
Historical Collection, the Southern
Folklife Collection, and University
Archives) and the North
Carolina Collection (including the Research
Library, Gallery,
and Photographic
Archives) provide rich primary resources, southern material,
and North Caroliniana, in a variety of formats. The Rare
Book Collection offers early manuscripts, printed books, and
visual materials covering a wide range of human endeavor. The University
Library's Digital Library, Documenting
the American South, has its offices and digital publishing center
here. The Special
Collections Conservation Lab provides treatment
for the Wilson Library collections. Each collection displays items from its holdings
through a regular program of exhibitions.
Wilson Library served as the main University Library from 1929
until the opening of the Walter Royal Davis Library in 1984 and
continues to provide temporary quarters for other library units.
Wilson Library currently provides quarters for the Music
Library, the Maps Collection,
and the Zoology Library.
Wilson Library also houses the Pleasants Family Assembly Room and
a master classroom (LG304).
The online catalog
and departmental finding aids provide bibliographic access to a
large percentage of the special collection holdings. The major exceptions
are government documents, maps, microforms, sound recordings, and
approximately ten percent of the titles in the North Carolina Collection
and Rare Book Collection. Users may find these materials by consulting
the various card catalogs and special files kept in the individual
collections, and by consulting with the reference staff. In the
spirit of the University's
mission, with its emphasis on the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill being built by the people of North Carolina and serving
all people of the state, all of the special collections in the Louis
Round Wilson Library are open to all users.
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