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Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Joined May 2009
Welcome back, Tar Heels! Celebrate homecoming by visiting the iconic Wilson Library, which will be open today from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Thank you to all the staff and students who made our live-action game of CLUE so much fun! ❤️👻
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Happening today starting at 3 pm! Join us at the Undergraduate Library to make book charms for e-readers! Event takes place in room 124 in the UL and it counts as a CLE. See you there!
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Do you know a University Libraries employee who has gone above and beyond? There's just one week left to nominate them for the Libraries' Annual Employee Awards!
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Help the University Libraries recognize staff who have made an impact.
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The University Libraries has named two new permanent curators at the Wilson Special Collections Library! Eileen Dewitya will be Frank Borden Hanes Curator of the Rare Book Collection, and Lisa Gregory will be curator of the North Carolina Collection.
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Eileen Dewitya will be Frank Borden Hanes Curator of the Rare Book Collection and Lisa Gregory will be curator of the North Carolina Collection, effective November 3.
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Can't wait to see all parents and families today at Wilson Library's Open House! The Library will be open today from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Halloween is finally here! Today, we’re featuring our collection of pulp novels from the Rare Book Collection. These two-in-one paperbacks are bound back-to-back, which means that you flip the book upside down to read the other title. Available from the Wilson Library!
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Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” Halloween is just a day away. Today we're featuring one of the many hauntingly beautiful illustrations of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," Illustrated by Gustav Doré. Come see this in the Wilson Library Research Room!
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Make sure to pick up our student-design bookmarks at the circulation desk at libraries across campus. These designs will only be available through the end of 2025, so get them while you can!
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Happy Anniversary to us! Wilson Library was dedicated on October 19 in 1929. At the ceremony, Governor. O. Max Gardner declared, "the heart of a true university is in its library." 📸 1920's-era photo of Wilson Library, from the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
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Do you know a University Libraries employee who has gone above and beyond? Make sure they get the recognition they deserve by nominating them for a University Libraries Employee Award! The final day for nominations is November 11, 2025. Learn more:
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Help the University Libraries recognize staff who have made an impact.
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Calling all students: apply for the Artists in the Archives Fellowship! The fellowship gives you both financial and research help for your creative work. Learn more and apply on our website by 10/23:
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Award Overview Calling All Student Artists! Are you working on an arts-related project and looking for support? The University Libraries invites undergraduate and graduate students to apply for the...
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October is finally here! We'll be posting some of the spookiest items from our collections. Up first, we're featuring a photo of "The Witches Club" from the 1910 yearbook of the Presbyterian College for Women.
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Thank you to everyone who made it out to our Book Crafts: E-Reader and Phone Charms event a couple of weeks ago! We had so much fun! We'll be hosting another Book Craft event with more cozy charms later this semester. Stay tuned here and on our website for more details!
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While many students at Carolina rely on modern technology to complete assignments, those in Professor Ruth von Bernuth’s GERM 227 class took a more old-school approach: a hands-on experience with the University Libraries’ 19th-century printing press. https://t.co/6ZV7kfAEjS
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Today is the fall equinox! The sun is positioned directly over the equator, resulting in roughly equal amounts of day and night. To celebrate the beginning of fall, we've pulled a couple of vintage fall images from the 1974 edition of UNC's yearbook, Yackety Yack.
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Happening today from 2 to 4 pm! Stop by the Sloane Art Library in Hanes Hall for our Artists' Books Open House! A selection of artists’ books from our special collection will be available for people to handle and read.
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Read vintage and current magazines through the Library! All UNC students, faculty, and staff have access to our OverDrive collection of magazines, which includes titles like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and much more! Browse the full collection here: https://t.co/U03Dua5gdy
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Tonight is opening night for our new exhibition, Parallel Visions: The Photographic Legacies of Burk Uzzle and Roland Freeman in Wilson Special Collections Library! Join us for a free preview event at 6:30 p.m. See you there!
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Carolina researchers interested in text and data mining have access to a new tool! Learn more and register for a TDM Studio training session:
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The Libraries now provides access to ProQuest’s tool for text and data mining. No coding knowledge required.
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