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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about UNC Libraries, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Biographical study of the playwright Paul Green by Agatha Boyd Adams, edited by Richard Walser and issued by the university library in 1951 in its Library Extension Publication series. Topics include his drama at Chapel Hill and his writing on slavery. A slim book of 116 pages with a portrait.
Reviewed in American Literature (1952).
Louis Round Wilson's 40-page review of the University of North Carolina library, subtitled on the cover a review of its past and a look at its future. Wilson had directed the library for three decades before leaving for Chicago, and the university's main library carries his name. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill in 1960, with illustrations.
Judith M. Panitch's illustrated account of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1992 and 2004, published by the library in 2004. It is a history of the academic library, and the notes point out its references to the Aldo P. Magi collection of Thomas Wolfe material. 50 pages with color illustrations in an oblong format.
Edward G. Holley's twelfth Hanes Lecture, given in Wilson Library on 11 April 1995, on how the library, philanthropy and publishing helped the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill become a major American university. Printed by the Hanes Foundation, 28 pages.
Exhibition booklet from the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in 1996, recording the benefactors whose gifts built the collection and the items they gave. The cover reads Selections from the Rare Book Collection, and Henry Pearson, 1914 to 2006, is among the people it covers. 32 pages with illustrations.
A 12-page illustrated case statement for the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, attributed to the library's development office and dated 1992, written in support of fundraising for the library.
Paper by Louis Round Wilson on the university library's resources and the Philological Club at the University of North Carolina from 1901 to 1932. He read it before the club in Chapel Hill on 16 March 1943, and it was reprinted from the Graduate School's 'Research in Progress' later that year. Nineteen pages.
Joe A. Hewitt's paper for the symposium marking the thousandth title in Documenting the American South, the UNC Library's digital collection, held in Chapel Hill on March 1, 2002. It reports on a study of some 1,500 email messages sent by the collection's users from January 1999 through June 2001, showing who was reading the online texts and why; a selection of the messages was printed in a commemorative booklet whose title quotes a reader's encouragement. Issued online by the university libraries.
Louis Round Wilson writes on the library of the University of North Carolina in a piece reprinted from The Library Journal for December 1909 and signed at the end with his name. A single folded sheet of three pages with one illustration, 26 cm.
Hsi-Chu Bolick's 2010 account of the East Asian collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed as an article running from page 280 to page 292 with illustrations and portraits. Topics include East Asian libraries in Chapel Hill, library resources for East Asia, and the university's cooperation with Duke in building the collection.
April S. Brewer's master's paper in library science, submitted at Chapel Hill in 2007, lists and analyzes the Robert Frost first editions in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina. Thirty-nine leaves, with attention to how a special collection develops around a single poet.
A 2005 study by Robin S. D. Chen tracing the principal library buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1853 to 1984: Smith Hall, the Carnegie Library, the Louis Round Wilson Library and the Walter Royal Davis Library. Academic library architecture is the subject throughout, set against buildings elsewhere in the United States. 65 leaves.
Kristen L. Bowen surveyed the fiction published between 2000 and 2014 that the North Carolina Collection at Chapel Hill acquired, a library school paper written under the advising of Claudia J. Gollop. Topics include special collections in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in literature, and research through blogs. Forty-three leaves with illustrations, some in color, dated 2004.
Short illustrated article by Rebecca Leanne Morphis, printed on pages 50 to 55 of a periodical in 2002 and issued as an offprint. Subjects include the North Carolina Collection Gallery in Chapel Hill and the history of the University of North Carolina, so the piece concerns curiosities from the university's past and the gallery that shows them.
Recorded program first aired on 9 February 1999 and connected with the North Carolina Collection Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the gallery of the library's North Carolina Collection.
Alexander Heard's remarks at the rededication of the Louis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 29, 1988, printed in 1990. The address also concerns J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, founder of the Southern Historical Collection housed there. Issued together with pieces by Roberta Engleman on the Rare Book Collection, H. G. Jones on the North Carolina Collection and Michael R. McVaugh on Elisha Mitchell's books.
Margaret Gaskie's article on library buildings, taken from Architectural Record of August 1985 and signed at the end by the author. It treats the Walter Royal Davis Library in Chapel Hill together with the Broward County Library and the John Crerar Library, with photographs of the buildings accompanying the text.
A collection of articles marking the opening of the Walter Royal Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 7, 1984, taken from the University Gazette of January 31, 1984. The pieces cover the arrangement and architecture of the new academic library, including one on the banners that decorated it.
Guide to a 1976 exhibit in Wilson Library marking the hundredth year since the birth of Louis Round Wilson, the librarian whose name the building carries. Prepared by the Southern Historical Collection and printed on a single sheet folded to two pages. Topics include librarians of Chapel Hill and exhibitions mounted by the University of North Carolina library.
Charles B. Lowry, born 1942, wrote this guide to doing research in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina, published in 1974 by the Louis Round Wilson Library. Four preliminary and 23 leaves. Topics include archives, manuscripts, rare books and government publications in Chapel Hill. A starting point for anyone working the collection in the 1970s.
John V. Allcott's article on Alexander Jackson Davis and the library and ballroom he designed for the University of North Carolina, the building known since as Playmakers Theatre. An offprint from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians for May 1974, pages 145 to 154, with illustrations and plans of the Chapel Hill building.
Myrl Ebert describes the new Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by that library itself in 1969. Six illustrated leaves. A brief printed account of a building and a collection at the point when both were new.
A short account of the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library at the University of North Carolina, issued in 1968 by the university library, five pages and a further two with three unnumbered leaves of plans. Topics include undergraduate libraries in Chapel Hill and the university library, so the pamphlet documents the building and its purpose soon after it opened.
A 1967 master's research paper submitted to the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying how readers used the carrels in Louis Round Wilson Library. Arlene L. Anderson wrote it for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. It concerns library buildings in Chapel Hill and Wilson Library itself.
Linda Simmons Quinn's 1966 master's research paper for the School of Library Science, testing how well graduate students understood the filing rules that governed the public catalog of the University of North Carolina Library. It is a use study of library catalogs and their readers in Chapel Hill. Forty-five leaves, submitted toward the degree of Master of Library Science.
Janet Parrish Cranford's 1965 history of the documents collection in the University of North Carolina Library, traced from its beginning through 1963. Topics include documents libraries and the history of the Chapel Hill library. A short study closing with a bibliography on leaves 45 to 47, of use to readers working on library history and government publications at the university.
Barbara Turner List traces the first three decades of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina, from the group's founding in 1932 through 1962. A 1965 typescript of 65 leaves with a bibliography on leaves 51 to 54.
Blueprints for the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drawn in 1965 by Cameron Associates of Charlotte. Forty-four technical drawings set out the design of the campus undergraduate library.
Raymond E. Durrance surveyed how readers used the spoken word record collection in the undergraduate library at the University of North Carolina, the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library in Chapel Hill. Written in April 1965 as a research paper for Library Science 201, it is a short use study with material on academic library acquisitions.
Samuel Moyle Boone's 1964 survey of administrative practice in library photographic services, with the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library among the services studied. Eighty one leaves of typescript at 29 cm, closing with a bibliography, it is a working document of photocopying and photographic work in an academic library.
Jane Cutler Bahnsen surveys what the University of North Carolina library held before 1830, in an article detached from College and Research Libraries, volume 20, number 2, for March 1959. Five pages published by the Association of College and Research Libraries at Fulton, Missouri.
Gay Garrigan Moore traced the growth of the Southern Historical Collection in the Louis Round Wilson Library at Chapel Hill from the beginning of the collection through 1948, in a 1958 paper of 83 leaves ending with a bibliography. Topics include manuscripts in Chapel Hill and sources for southern history, making the study a record of how the collection was built.
Lawrence Foushee London's short account of the University of North Carolina Library, signed at the end with his name and his post at that library. Two pages detached from the South Atlantic Bulletin for May 1952 and printed by Duke University Press at Durham. Topics include academic libraries and library buildings in Chapel Hill.
Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton's short account of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, reprinted in 1945 from a survey of the university's library resources. Twelve unnumbered pages at 15 centimeters describe the manuscripts gathered from across the southern states.
J. F. Pugh's history of the University of North Carolina library, printed in 1914 by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies as part of the University of North Carolina Magazine, new series volume 31, number 4, for March of that year. Seven pages, numbered 207 to 213, detached from the issue. Topics include academic libraries in Chapel Hill and the history of the university library.
Ned Cline's biography of Walter Royal Davis, 1920 to 2008, the North Carolina businessman who made his fortune in the Texas petroleum trade and became a philanthropist and benefactor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its library. Privately printed for Jo Ann Davis in Chapel Hill in 2009, 297 pages with sixteen pages of plates, some illustrations in color.
Lawrence Foushee London on his fifty years with rare books at the University of North Carolina library in Chapel Hill, published in 1991 together with the proceedings of the banquet at which he received the North Caroliniana Society Award. An interview with London by Roberta A. Engleman is included. Thirty four pages with portraits, in an edition limited to four hundred signed copies.
A 1945 survey from the University of North Carolina Press describing the study and research facilities of the university library at Chapel Hill, prepared by the library staff with help from faculty members according to the foreword. It runs to 264 pages. Topics include academic libraries and library resources in Chapel Hill.
Exhibition catalog for Southern Sources, shown January to March 2005 in Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill to mark 75 years of the Southern Historical Collection. Laura Capell compiled it, with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits over 127 pages.
Sixteen page illustrated booklet on Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the university in 2004. Topics include the library's history and its resources, so the booklet introduces both the building and the collections inside it to readers and campus visitors.
Richard A. Murray's 1999 thesis on job satisfaction among professional and paraprofessional staff in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, based on a questionnaire survey of library employees. Fifty-eight leaves with four preliminary pages, issued as a PDF file. It is a case study in academic library administration.
Autobiography of the academic librarian Robert B. Downs (1903-1991), published by Scarecrow Press in 1984. Downs discusses academic librarianship, the philosophy of library science and the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The volume runs xiii, 225 pages with one plate and a bibliography on pages 213 to 218.
Record of the convocation held on University Day, October 12, 1960, when the Library of the University of North Carolina marked its one millionth volume. Nineteen pages. The note describes the academic procession into Memorial Hall, the audience, and close views of Frank Borden Hanes and Nathan M. Pusey, with a separate text of the proceedings.
The Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill, home of its historical collection, seen from the front while under renovation. Taken 8 September 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Reading room shared by the Manuscripts Department and the Southern Historical Collection in UNC's Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for NC ECHO.
Manuscript boxes on the shelves of the Wilson Library stacks at UNC in Chapel Hill. An NC ECHO project photograph, 29 May 2002.
The closed section of the manuscripts reading room in UNC's Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Stacks in Wilson Library just outside the area used by the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, Chapel Hill. Photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Close view of a drawer of Southern Oral History Program records in the Wilson Library stacks at UNC, Chapel Hill. NC ECHO photograph taken on 29 May 2002.
Microfilm stored in the Wilson Library stacks at UNC in Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Portrait of Cornelia Spencer (1825 to 1908) hanging in the manuscripts reading room of UNC's Wilson Library. Photographed in Chapel Hill on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Rows of the finding aids researchers use to locate material in UNC's manuscript collections, in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill. NC ECHO photograph, 29 May 2002.
Inventories and finding aids for UNC's manuscript collections, shelved for researchers in the Wilson Library reading room. Photographed in Chapel Hill on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Shelves of reference works and other books kept in the Wilson Library manuscripts reading room to support work with UNC's manuscript collections. NC ECHO photograph, Chapel Hill, 29 May 2002.
John White, reference librarian for UNC Manuscripts, on the left, with Donna Baker, librarian for the NC ECHO project, at the desk of the Wilson Library reading room in Chapel Hill. Taken on 29 May 2002.
Part of the Gail Godwin exhibit set up in the lobby of the Manuscripts Department reading room in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill. Photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Wilson Library exhibit on the life and career of the novelist Gail Godwin, mounted after her papers came to the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. NC ECHO photograph taken in Chapel Hill on 29 May 2002.
Architectural drawing of Hayes Plantation in Edenton that singles out its library, the room reproduced in the North Carolina Collection Gallery at UNC's Wilson Library. Photographed on 6 May 2002 for NC ECHO.
Ceiling detail in the Hayes Library room of the North Carolina Collection Gallery at UNC. The room reproduces the library at Hayes Plantation in Edenton, whose house went up from 1814 to 1817 for the planter James Cathcart Johnston, son of Governor Samuel Johnston. NC ECHO photograph, 6 May 2002.
Doorway into the North Carolina Collection Gallery in UNC's Wilson Library, photographed in Chapel Hill on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Card catalog in the reading room of the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC. Photographed in Chapel Hill on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
The North Carolina Collection reading room in Wilson Library at UNC, Chapel Hill, photographed on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
View into the Sir Walter Raleigh Rooms of the gallery in Wilson Library's North Carolina Collection at UNC, Chapel Hill. NC ECHO photograph, 6 May 2002.
Bob Anthony, curator of the North Carolina Collection, holding the Durant Bible of 1599, which the university uses when a new chancellor takes the oath of office. NC ECHO photograph taken in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, 6 May 2002.
Exhibit in honor of John Sprunt Hill in the North Carolina Collection at UNC's Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, photographed on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Portrait of Dr. H. G. Jones, historian and longtime curator of the North Carolina Collection at UNC, photographed in Wilson Library on 6 May 2002 for NC ECHO.
Second view of the North Carolina Collection reading room in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, taken on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Exhibit of manuscripts and photographs about Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese twins, in the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library, UNC. Photographed on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Ornithological prints from the Mangum and Josephine Weeks collection on view in the North Carolina Collection at UNC's Wilson Library, Chapel Hill. NC ECHO photograph, 6 May 2002.
Part of an exhibit of bird prints from the Mangum and Josephine Weeks Ornithological Collection, shown in the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library, UNC. Photographed on 6 May 2002 for NC ECHO.
A book of verse by George Moses Horton, billed on its title page as the colored bard of North Carolina and printed in Hillsborough, shown from the North Carolina Collection. Horton was an enslaved poet who sold verses to UNC students in Chapel Hill. NC ECHO photograph, 6 May 2002.
Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' from the Walker Percy Collection in UNC's Rare Book Collection, photographed in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Exterior of Wilson Library on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
Second view of the reading room of the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library at UNC, Chapel Hill, taken on 29 May 2002 for NC ECHO.
Exhibit on the Walker Percy Collection in UNC's Rare Book Collection, with pages from the original manuscript of John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces', a novel Percy helped bring into print. NC ECHO photograph, Wilson Library, 29 May 2002.
Interior of the ornate Rare Book Collection reading room in UNC's Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.
A single folded sheet printed by the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a program on December 9, 1992, honoring James F. Govan and marking the library's four millionth volume. Three illustrated pages.
Commemorative volume for the fiftieth anniversary of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering the years 1930 to 1980. Published in 1981 by the Academic Affairs Library and the Friends of the Library as a special issue of The bookmark, 84 pages with portraits.
A history of the Southern Historical Collection's first fifty years, 1930 to 1980, published in 1981 with the subtitle the pursuit of history. It concerns the collection at the university library in Chapel Hill, southern historiography and historian Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, 1878 to 1961.
Maurice P. Marchant's study of how the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was organized and run, dated 1975 and surviving as a photocopied typescript of seventy one pages and five leaves with graphs. The School of Library Science at Chapel Hill produced the copy in 1976. Topics include academic library administration.
A report on the University of North Carolina Library covering 1957 to 1964, prepared for the thirty second annual meeting of the Friends of the library and printed at Chapel Hill in 1964. Fourteen pages in a wide format of 16 by 23 centimeters. It concerns academic libraries in North Carolina.
A 1953 statement of opportunities and plans for the University Library at Chapel Hill, setting out its needs and prospects. Published by the Friends of the library, 32 pages with illustrations.
Issued for the opening of the library addition at Chapel Hill on 18 April 1952, this booklet of twenty one pages carries illustrations and floor plans of the enlarged building. Topics include library buildings in Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina library, so the item documents a single day in the campus building record.
An account of the Carolina Covid-19 Collection, the documentation effort the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill built around the pandemic that began in 2020. Issued by the university in 2024.
Veuve, viuda and viduam, the French, Spanish and Latin words for widow, give this 2023 study its title and its starting point: the traces of women's bibliographic labor in the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library. Published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with material on academic libraries, feminism and rare books.
Thirteen pages in color from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries, published in 2017 for the Campaign for Carolina. Portraits and illustrations run throughout. Topics include academic libraries in Chapel Hill and the university library itself, which is the piece's tie to Orange County.
Materials about Mary Lindsay Thornton, the first curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina, brought together in 2016 by her great-niece Elizabeth P. Fowler of San Francisco. The cataloger supplied the title. Topics include librarians in Chapel Hill, the university library and the North Carolina Collection that Thornton curated.
William R. Burk traces the place of science and scientific literature in the growth of the University of North Carolina library from 1795 to 1902. Extracted from North Carolina Libraries, volume 67, spring and summer 2009, and privately issued at Chapel Hill in 2014 with four appendices of tables listing science collections already in the library and others to be added.
Between 1955 and 1975 Lawrence Ferlinghetti published the books this 2013 paper checks against the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Issued by the university.
John Herbert Roper's study of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, the University of North Carolina historian who built the Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill by gathering manuscripts across the South. The piece concerns the historiography of Reconstruction in North Carolina between 1865 and 1877 and in the Dunning school's handling of race and Jim Crow. Dated 2013.
Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser take up the conflict between opening recent archival collections to researchers and protecting the privacy of the people named in them. The discussion concerns archival access control and the right of privacy, with the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina library in Chapel Hill as the working setting. Dated 2012.
Eileen McGrath and Linda Jacobson write on the University of North Carolina library between 1929 and 1941 and what the Great Depression meant for a research library still taking shape. Dated 2011. Topics include research library acquisitions in Chapel Hill and the library's history, and include Louis Round Wilson.
An episode of North Carolina People, William Friday's interview program from UNC Center for Public Television, first broadcast on November 4, 2011. Friday's guest is Robert G. Anthony, Jr., curator of the North Carolina Collection in the university library at Chapel Hill, and the interview also concerns the North Carolina Writers Conference. One videodisc, about 27 minutes, sound and color.
Stephen J. Fletcher reflects on running a processing blog while archivists worked through the Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Films at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dated 2011, concerning archives processing in the town and on photograph collections, which makes it a professional account of archival work carried out in public.
Gardner Treneman's 2010 master's paper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a needs assessment of the people who use the information commons in a large research university library. Topics include learning commons, the evaluation of college and university libraries, and needs assessment, with the university's own libraries in Chapel Hill as the setting for the study.
A Russian language piece by A. M. Makhov on the postcard collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, its title given in Cyrillic and in romanized form. Dated 2009 and issued in folio format, concerning postcards in North Carolina and for the North Carolina Collection in the university library.
Survey of scholarly use and non-use of the manuscript collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the university in 2009. It works from internet questionnaires and covers the Manuscripts Department, the Southern Folklife Collection and the University Archives and Records Service.
Selected works by Seamus Heaney published between 1965 and 1995 are checked here against the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in a paper dated 2008 and issued by the university. Heaney visited that same collection in 1996, an occasion recorded elsewhere in this index by three photographs.
Lady Gregory comes up again in this 2007 paper on the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering bibliography of the Irish dramatist who died in 1932 and collection development in special collections. Published by the university.
Case study from 2007 on planning the retrospective conversion of legacy finding aids in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It concerns Encoded Archival Description and special collections practice. Published by the university.
W. H. Auden's monographs in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are weighed here against what the poet actually published. Dated 2006 and issued by the university, the paper concerns Auden bibliography and special collections development.
A guide to the World War I posters in the Bowman Gray Collection of the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the library in 1988. Its 210 pages reproduce posters of 1914 to 1918, some in color, and end with a four-page bibliography. The posters were gathered by the private collector Bowman Gray.
Catalog of an exhibit mounted by the Manuscripts Department of Wilson Library from January 23 to May 31, 2007, on student protest in Chapel Hill during the 1960s. Topics include civil rights demonstrations, the Speaker Ban Law, the Black Student Movement, restaurant strikes and Vietnam War protests at the university. Compiled by Biff Hollingsworth, 59 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, published by the university library.
A 38-page bibliography of sources in Wilson Library on slavery and the building of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the university library in 2005 with illustrations. Its subtitle honors the unsung people, enslaved and free, behind the university's making. A finding tool for researchers rather than a narrative history.
Newsletter of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the Academic Affairs Library and recorded from 1991. Topics include academic libraries and library friends groups in Chapel Hill as well as the university library itself. Illustrated volumes of 28 cm. Anyone interested in how a friends group supports a large library will find a local example here.
Annual reports of the University Library at Chapel Hill, recorded from the 1958 fiscal year, with the volume for 1959 to 1960 appearing under the shorter title Annual report for the year. A continuing series of 28 cm volumes. The reports document the library's work year by year during the era of the consolidated University of North Carolina.
Strategic plan for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library covering 2013 through 2018, issued by the university libraries in July 2013. A 12-page pamphlet with color illustrations. Its title ties the library's plans to the mission of the university as a whole.
Web exhibit from 2002 by Libby Chenault of 100 American World War I posters from the Bowman Gray collection in the UNC Rare Book Collection, grouped by theme with an essay on their history. Part of Documenting the American South, in the collection North Carolinians and the Great War.
Staff handbook issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979 for employees covered by the State Personnel Act, 63 pages in a pocket format. It includes information on fringe benefits and applies to staff of the university library. A plain administrative document showing the terms of work for the university's staff at the end of the 1970s.
Handbook to the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated January 1976, describing their collections and services, with illustrations and a map of library locations on campus. About 15 numbered pages plus a lettered appendix.
Folded eight-page leaflet issued by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill in 1970 on the state's literary heritage as represented in the library's special collections, including the North Carolina Collection. Illustrated, 23 cm.
Color posters advertising events at the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated from 2007. Sponsors include the North Carolina Collection, the Southern Historical Collection, the Rare Book Collection, the Southern Folklife Collection and the Friends of the Library. The events range from author and gallery talks to exhibits, readings and films.
The guest register of the North Caroliniana Gallery in the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill, covering visitors who signed in from 12 December 1988 to 10 September 1995. A manuscript record of visitors to the gallery over those years.
Catalog of the dust jackets that came to the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina between December 1977 and June 1989, compiled in October 1993 and running to 304 leaves at 28 cm.
Visitors to the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina signed this register between 1 July 1990 and 21 May 1992, one unpaged volume at 34 cm. As a guest book from Chapel Hill it names the people who came to use the collection in those two years.
Staff bulletin from the technical services division of the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this number dating from 1989 and published by the library. Issued as a serial, it reports on cataloging and processing work in an academic library at the end of the 1980s.
Phillip A. Snyder wrote this descriptive essay on Bernard Shaw's correspondence with his publisher Constable, issued at Chapel Hill in 1985 with a group of pieces on the university library's collections: Doris Betts on Southern writers and the Bible, Lucia A. Ciapponi on the Hanes copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Lewis Leary on Parson Weems's visit to the university, and Marshall Bullock on a portrait of Richard Bennehan.
Orientation handout prepared for staff tours of the Walter Royal Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated September 18, 1983 and credited to October Ivins and Karen S. Seibert. A map of Technical Services by Rodger Harris appears on leaf 5. Topics include academic libraries in Chapel Hill.
A nine minute orientation film introducing the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, produced in 1983 by MSTL Television in the School of Medicine. Made first on videotape and transferred to disc in January 2010, with picture quality degraded in places.
Margaret Frishe Lospinuso's short illustrated essay on the early American tunebooks in the Annabel Morris Buchanan Collection at the University of North Carolina's Music Library, occupying pages 19 to 25 of a 1980 publication of the University Library for the Friends of the Library. Buchanan (1888-1983) was a folk-music collector. A seven-page extract.
A volume of blueprint technical drawings showing the stacks layout of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated 1978.
Handbook the University of North Carolina issued in 1969 to introduce graduate students and faculty to the campus libraries and their collections. Twenty-four pages with floor plans at 28 cm.
Published by the R.B. House Undergraduate Library in 1969, a 27 page illustrated guide to the undergraduate library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It concerns works on undergraduate libraries in Chapel Hill, and it introduces the building and its collections to students.
Published by the Ackland Art Center at the University of North Carolina in 1969 for an exhibition of First World War propaganda posters, selected from the Bowman Gray collection of materials on the two world wars, part of the university library's Rare Book Collection. One unnumbered illustrated volume, 31 cm.
Reader's Miscellany, issued in 1958 as part of the University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication and printed in Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina Press. The series came out of the university's library extension program, which served readers across the state. Grouped with college publications in Chapel Hill and with Orange County.
William Lanier Hunt prepared this study course for garden clubs, published by the University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill in October 1934 and tied to the university's library extension work. It includes bibliographies for club members following the course. Topics include gardening, gardening societies and library extension in Chapel Hill.
Library notes, a serial about the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in volumes of 28 centimeters. Topics include academic libraries in Chapel Hill and the university library itself. The catalog record describes the periodical run rather than one number, and gives neither dates of publication nor a publisher.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's electronic theses and dissertations, issued by the UNC University Library as a continuing resource.
H.G. Jones's 1990 pamphlet presenting examples of recent acquisitions by the North Carolina Collection, the state history collection of the University of North Carolina library in Chapel Hill, which Jones curated.
William D. Ilgen's annotated catalogue of the Bernard J. Flatow collection of Latin American cronistas in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the early chroniclers of the Spanish Americas. The entries cover works on the discovery and exploration of America to 1600 and on Latin American history to 1830. Chapel Hill, 2005, 238 pages with a map and facsimiles.
Directory of archival and library holdings on African American history in North Carolina and at UNC Chapel Hill, which Timothy D. Pyatt edited, published 1995 by the Academic Affairs Library, 253 pages. Four parts: a statewide guide from Linda Simmons Henry and Lisa Parker, Luke Swindler with Patricia Buck Dominguez on the general collections, Robert G. Anthony Jr. on the North Carolina Collection, and a Manuscripts Department guide prepared by Lauren A. Kerr with Katrin D. Hardikar.
Yearly reports of the North Caroliniana Society and of the North Carolina Collection in the university library at Chapel Hill, beginning in 1975 and issued in illustrated volumes. Some years cover the society alone. The series documents collecting and society activity around the sources of North Carolina history.
Annual reporting from the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering each fiscal year and issued in illustrated volumes from 1977. The title shifted slightly with the volume for 1977 and 1978. The series records collections, staffing and operations year by year.
Guide to the manuscripts of the Southern Historical Collection, the manuscript archive at UNC Chapel Hill, as the collection stood in 1970, with annotated entries describing holdings that then totaled more than five million items. Published by the university library in 1970, roughly 316 pages in a large format; a supplementary guide covering acquisitions from 1970 to 1975 was compiled by Everhard H. Smith III and issued in 1976.
A booklet accompanying the exhibition on William Richardson Davie, 1756 to 1820, the soldier and statesman remembered as founder of the University of North Carolina, shown in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library from February to June 2006, his semiquincentennial year. R. Neil Fulghum researched and wrote it. Thirty-seven pages of color illustrations, portraits by Charles Willson Peale and Gilles-Louis Chrétien among them.
Catalog of an exhibition mounted in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill library from 3 July to 30 September 1997, written by Jan Paris. The subject is how researchers find evidence of women's lives in the historical record. Sixty six illustrated pages from the Academic Affairs Library.
A handbook to the records kept by the University Archives and Records Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the university in 1995. It is both a manual and a catalog of sources for university history, describing what the archives hold and how researchers reach them. 102 pages with illustrations.
A catalog of interviews with women in the Southern Oral History Program Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in 1992 by the program and the Manuscripts Department. The entries point researchers to oral histories recorded with women across the South and in North Carolina. 178 pages at 28 cm.
Two-volume list of the periodicals and other serials in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as of June 1, 1972, arranged alphabetically with A to L in the first part and M to Z in the second, 678 pages in a large format. Published by the Library in 1972.
Regina S. Ro compiled this list of the Chinese books and periodicals in the Far Eastern Collection of the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill, published by the library in 1965. It lists the library's Chinese-language holdings. Issued in volumes.
Planning document of 2019 setting out the strategic framework of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A 14-page booklet.
Catalog of an exhibition drawn from the Southern Historical Collection and shown at Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill from April to August 2007, on the Northern impulse to reform and remake the South. Topics include antislavery movements and Southern history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eight pages with illustrations.
A seven page bibliography of African American material in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, attributed to the university library and dated 1993. It concerns African Americans and library bibliography, so it is a short guide to what the campus libraries held on the subject.
A guide to the Allard K. Lowenstein papers, 1924 to 1985, prepared by the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in 1985. The papers concern American liberalism in the twentieth century. Pages 39 to 84 carry a selected index to incoming correspondence. 84 pages with illustrations.
Guide to women's studies material in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the Academic Affairs Library in 1984. Topics include feminism, women and women's studies bibliography, including North Carolina women, so the volume points researchers to what the campus libraries kept by subject. 136 pages with a map.
Fred Schreiber's annotated catalogue of 300 books from the presses of the Estienne family, the scholar printers of sixteenth and seventeenth century Paris and Geneva. Published in 1982 by the Hanes Foundation in the Rare Book Collection of the University Library at Chapel Hill. 284 pages with facsimiles and portraits, and a bibliography at the back.
Supplement to the published guide to manuscripts in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering the years 1970 to 1975, with Southern and North Carolina manuscript sources. Sixty pages at 28 cm, issued by the University of North Carolina Library in 1976.
A 325 page location guide, compiled in 1974 by the Humanities Division of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill library, showing where reference works and source collections for medieval and Renaissance studies sit in the Chapel Hill and Duke libraries. It is a union list covering the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Annual reports by the librarian of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with issues dated from 1911. The title changed to Report of the librarian for 1921 through 1927; several of those volumes appeared in the University of North Carolina record series. 23 cm.
Newsletter of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reporting news of the library. Published by the library from 2006 in volumes, 28 cm.
Booklet for an exhibition on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes mounted in the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from October to December 1997. The material shown came from the James R. and Mary M. Patton Collection. Fifteen pages with illustrations, published by the Academic Affairs Library.
Orientation serial from the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, starting with the issue of January 15, 1997, which was also called spring 1997. Printed large at 36 centimeters with illustrations, some in color, it introduced students and staff to the campus library system.
Five page folded leaflet of information and guidelines for readers using the Rare Book Collection in the university library at Chapel Hill, issued by the collection in 1996. Topics include rare book libraries and library special collections in Chapel Hill, and the format is the short handout given to people working with restricted material.
Newsletter of the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the library and recorded here from 1995. Issued in volumes with illustrations. The title plays on the web term of the mid 1990s.
Leaflet on the southern broadcast media history initiative of the Southern Historical and Folklife Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in 1995. The project concerned the history of broadcasting in the Southern states and the business records that document it. Five pages on one folded sheet with illustrations.
Folded leaflet announcing the southern business history initiative at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in 1995. The project set out to save the record of Southern enterprise, including business records and commercial correspondence. Ten pages on one folded sheet with illustrations.
A checklist of the microform sets in the libraries of Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated June 1986 and issued on a single microfilm reel of 243 leaves.
Guide to a supplement of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers covering 1910 to 1977, prepared by the Southern Historical Collection at Chapel Hill and published in 1978 by the Microfilming Corporation of America in Glen Rock, New Jersey. It accompanies the microfilm edition of the documents. Farm tenancy in the United States is the subject. 23 pages.
List of the corporate and institutional names used in the clipping file of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina library, issued in 1965 as a supplement to the collection's list of subject terms. Forty nine leaves, a key to how the vertical files on organizations across the state were arranged.
Clifton Brock's guide for political science students to the resources of the University of North Carolina library at Chapel Hill, published by the library in 1965. Sixty nine pages of bibliography, pointing students toward the reference works and collections the library kept for their field.
Location guide to reference works and source collections for medieval and Renaissance studies in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, published in 1965. The reference staff of the library's Humanities Division compiled it under the supervision of Louise McG. Hall. 226 pages, a union list showing which of the two campuses had what.
News of the Friends of the University of North Carolina Library, published at Chapel Hill by the library itself and issued from 1961. Issues carry illustrations and portraits at 23 cm, the title varies slightly from number to number, and some issues were given distinctive titles of their own.
North Carolina Musicians: A Selected Handbook, issued in July 1956 at Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina Press in the University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication series. Also titled as a library handbook. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
Dated May 1943, 'The Conflict of Political Ideas' appeared as a number of the University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication from the University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill. The copy comes from UNC's North Carolina Collection, in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
'At Home with the Fine Arts', an issue of the University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication dated 1 July 1939 and printed in Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina Press. Grouped with DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Reports of the Division of Library and Library School at the University of North Carolina, issued from 1935 in 23 centimeter volumes by the university library at Chapel Hill. The university's name stands at the head of the title. The reports date from the years when library and library school formed a single division.
Annual report of the University of North Carolina librarian in Chapel Hill on the library's year, issued as a series by the University Press. The run here begins about 1910.
Periodical news sheet issued by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill. Undated.
Windows, volume 29, number 1, the spring and summer 2022 newsletter of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Seventeen page images.
Windows for fall and winter 2021, volume 28, number 2, from the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with news of the university libraries. Thirty-one page images.
The Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued this spring and summer 2021 number of their newsletter, Windows, volume 28, number 1, on the campus libraries. Twenty-four page images.
Fall and winter 2020 issue of Windows, volume 27, number 2, the Friends of the Library periodical covering the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Spring and summer 2020 issue of Windows, the newsletter of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, numbered volume 27, number 1. Thirteen page images.
Combined fall and winter 2019 issue of Windows, volume 26, number 2, from the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Spring and summer 2019 issue of Windows, volume 26, number 1, a periodical about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and their Friends of the Library.
Volume 25, number 1 of Windows, spring 2018, the periodical of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Windows for winter 2018, volume 25, number 2, reporting on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries to the Friends of the Library.
Spring 2017 issue of Windows, volume 24, number 1, covering the libraries of UNC Chapel Hill for the Friends of the Library.
Progress report from the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill covering 2013 through 2016, published in 2016 as an update to the libraries' plan for 2013 to 2018. Thirty eight pages with color illustrations and portraits.
Fall 2016, volume 23, number 2 of Windows, the periodical of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reporting on the university's libraries.
Windows, spring 2016, numbered volume 22, number 3: a Friends of the Library periodical on the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Windows for fall 2015, volume 22, number 3, with news of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for the Friends of the Library.
Winter 2015 issue of Windows, numbered volume 22, number 2, the Friends of the Library periodical about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries.
Spring 2014 issue of Windows, numbered volume 22, number 2, from the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Strategic plan for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library covering 2013 to 2018, issued in July 2013. It ties the library's planning for those five years to the mission of the university.
Volume 22, number 1 of Windows, summer 2013, covering the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Friends of the Library.
Windows, fall 2012, volume 21, number 2: news from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for the Friends of the Library.
Summer 2012 issue of Windows, volume 21, number 1, the Friends of the Library periodical at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fall 2011 issue of Windows, volume 20, number 2. The Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published it on the university's libraries.
Spring 2011, volume 20, number 1 of Windows, a periodical on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for members of the Friends of the Library.
Volume 19, number 2 of Windows, fall 2010: the Friends of the Library periodical reporting on the libraries of UNC Chapel Hill.
Windows for spring 2010, volume 19, number 1, covering the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Friends of the Library there.
Windows, fall 2009, volume 18, number 2, with news of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for the Friends of the Library.
Spring 2009 issue of Windows, volume 18, number 1, a periodical of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fall 2008 issue of Windows, volume 17, number 2, on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and the Friends of the Library who support them.
Spring 2008, volume 17, number 1 of Windows, the Friends of the Library periodical covering the academic libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fall 2007 Windows, volume 16, number 2, the periodical of the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the university's libraries.
Windows for spring 2007, volume 16, number 1. Library news from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published for its Friends of the Library.
Volume 15, number 2 of Windows, dated fall 2006, covering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for their Friends of the Library.
Spring 2006 issue of Windows, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library periodical, with no volume or issue number given for it.
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Biographical study of the playwright Paul Green by Agatha Boyd Adams, edited by Richard Walser and issued by the university library in 1951 in its Library Extension Publication series. Topics include his drama at Chapel Hill and his writing on slavery. A slim book of 116 pages with a portrait.
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