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The UNC Libraries are the university's library system in Chapel Hill. Housed in Smith Hall from the 1850s, the library moved to the Carnegie Library in 1907, Wilson Library in 1929 and Davis Library in 1984, and its collections grew to include the North Carolina Collection, begun with John Sprunt Hill's 1906 gift, and the Southern Historical Collection of 1930.

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People in its history

People named in events about this site, ordered by number of mentions. Each example links to an entry with a source citation.

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Sites linked through the same people

  • Memorial Hall through George Tayloe Winston, Edward Kidder Graham and 14 more
  • Gerrard Hall through Fordyce M. Hubbard, Adolphus Williamson Mangum and 13 more
  • UNC School of Medicine through Francis Preston Venable, Harry Woodburn Chase and 10 more
  • Hill Hall through John Sprunt Hill, Andrew Carnegie and 9 more
  • Old Chapel Hill Cemetery through Charles Phillips, Adolphus Williamson Mangum and 9 more
  • South Building through Charles Phillips, Fordyce M. Hubbard and 7 more

Indexed works

Books, articles, records, and images about UNC Libraries. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

Held at OCPL

Paul Green of Chapel Hill

Adams, Agatha Boyd ; Walser, Richard Gaither · 1951 · University of North Carolina Library

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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Reviewed in American Literature (1952).

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The Library of the First State University

Wilson, Louis Round · 1960 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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Reflections: the University Library, 1992-2004 : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Panitch, Judith M. · 2004

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.

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The library, philanthropy, publications, & UNC's emergence as a major American university

Holley, Edward G. · 1998

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.

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A celebration of donors: the benefactors and their gifts to the Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1996 · The Collection

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.

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The Heart & core: Carolina's library

1992

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.

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Library Resources and the Philological Club, 1901-1932

Wilson, Louis Round · 1943 · University of North Carolina 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.

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Doc South 1000th Title Symposium, March 1, 2002

Hewitt, Joe A. · 2002 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries

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.

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Library of the University of North Carolina.

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1909

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.

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The East Asian collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bolick, Hsi-Chu · 2010

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.

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The first editions of Robert Frost : a bibliography and analysis of Robert Frost monographs in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brewer, April S. · 2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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The principle [sic] library buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in context

Chen, Robin S. D. · 2005

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.

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UNC-Chapel Hill North Carolina Collection fiction from 2000-2014

Bowen, Kristen L. · 2004 · Kristen L. Bowen

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.

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Carolina's curios

Morphis, Rebecca Leanne · 2002

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.

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History of money.

1999

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.

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Remarks at the rededication of the Louis Round Wilson Library

Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009 · 1990

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.

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Books and people

Gaskie, Margaret · 1985

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.

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Davis Library opens Feb. 7

1984 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Louis Round Wilson, one hundred years.

1976 · Southern Historical Collection

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.

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A guide to research in the North Carolina collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lowry, Charles B., 1942- · 1974 · Louis Round Wilson 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.

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Scholarly books and frolicsome blades : A.J. Davis designs a library-ballroom

Allcott, John V., 1905-1989 · 1974 · Society of Architectural Historians

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.

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The new Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ebert, Myrl, 1913-2001 · 1969 · Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Robert B. House Undergraduate Library : University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1968 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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A study of the use of carrels in the Louis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anderson, Arlene L. · 1967

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.

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A study of graduate students' understanding of the filing rules used in the public catalog of the University of North Carolina Library

Quinn, Linda Simmons · 1966

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.

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The Documents Collection of the University of North Carolina Library from its beginning through 1963

Cranford, Janet Parrish · 1965

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.

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The Friends of the University of North Carolina Library, 1932-1962

List, Barbara Turner · 1965

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.

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Robert B. House Undergraduate Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Associates, Cameron · 1965 · Cameron Associates

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.

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A survey of the use of the University of North Carolina Undergraduate library spoken word record collection

Durrance, Raymond E. · 1965

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.

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Current administrative practices in library photographic services

Boone, Samuel Moyle · 1964

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.

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Collections in the University of North Carolina Library before 1830

Bahnsen, Jane Cutler · 1959 · Association of College and Research Libarries

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.

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The Southern Historical Collection in the Louis Round Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina, from the beginning of the collection through 1948

Moore, Gay Garrigan · 1958

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.

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University of North Carolina Library.

London, Lawrence Foushee · 1952 · Duke University Press

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.

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The Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina

Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961 · 1945 · University of North Carolina

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.

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The history of the Library of North Carolina

Pugh, J. F. (Jesse Forbes), 1891-1976 · 1914 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina

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.

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The Walter Davis story : one man who made a difference

Cline, Ned. · 2009

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.

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A half century with rare books

London, Lawrence Foushee · 1991 · North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and North Carolina Collection

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.

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Library resources of the University of North Carolina : a summary of facilities for study and research

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library · 1945 · The University of North Carolina Press

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.

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Southern sources : an exhibition celebrating seventy-five years of the Southern Historical Collection, 1930-2005

Capell, Laura · 2005

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.

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The Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2004 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Job satisfaction of professional and paraprofessional library staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Murray, Richard A. · 1999 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Perspectives on the past : an autobiography

Downs, Robert B. (Robert Bingham), 1903-1991 · 1984 · Scarecrow Press

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.

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One million books; proceedings of a convocation honoring the acquisition of the one millionth volume by the Library of the University of North Carolina, University Day, October 12, 1960.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1960

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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Health Sciences Library, Historical Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Manuscript boxes on the shelves of the Wilson Library stacks at UNC in Chapel Hill. An NC ECHO project photograph, 29 May 2002.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Microfilm stored in the Wilson Library stacks at UNC in Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Manuscripts Department

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

The North Carolina Collection reading room in Wilson Library at UNC, Chapel Hill, photographed on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Second view of the North Carolina Collection reading room in Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, taken on 6 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Exterior of Wilson Library on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, photographed on 29 May 2002 for the NC ECHO project.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, Rare Book Collection

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Honoring James F. Govan and celebrating the four-millionth volume.

1992 · Friends of the Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Fiftieth anniversary, Southern Historical Collection.

1981

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.

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Southern Historical Collection, 1930-1980

1981

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.

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A study of the organizational and administrative behavior of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marchant, Maurice P. · 1975

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.

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The University of North Carolina Library, 1957-1964.

1964 · The Library

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.

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Opportunities And Plans For The Present And Future Of The University Library At Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1953 · The Friends

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.

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The enlarged library building at Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, opening of the addition, 18 April 1952.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library · 1952 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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Archiving a Community In Crisis: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Archives' Carolina Covid-19 Collection

2024 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Veuve, Viuda, Viduam and other Representations of Women’s Bibliographic Labor Recovered in Wilson Library’s Rare Book Collection

2023 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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The campaign for Carolina, University Libraries.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library · 2017 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries

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.

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[Mary Lindsay Thornton materials from Elizabeth P. Fowler]

Thornton, Mary Lindsay · 2016 · Elizabeth P. Fowler

Materials gathered in 2016 by Elizabeth P. Fowler of San Francisco about her great-aunt Mary Lindsay Thornton, who became the North Carolina Collection's first curator at UNC. The title was supplied by the cataloger. Subjects include librarians in Chapel Hill, the university library and the collection Thornton curated.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library and the sciences, 1795-1902

Burk, William R. · 2014 · Privately issued by William R. Burk

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.

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An Analysis of the Holdings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Published Works, 1955-1975, in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Rare Book Collection

2013 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Ransack Roulhac and racism : Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton and Dunning's questions of institution building and Jim Crow

Roper, John Herbert, 1948- · 2013

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.

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Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy

Brown, Laura Clark; Kaiser, Nancy · 2012

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.

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The great depression and its impact on an emerging research library : the University of North Carolina Library, 1929-1941

McGrath, Eileen L.; Jacobson, Linda A. · 2011

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.

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North Carolina people with William Friday : [featuring Robert Anthony]

2011 · UNC Center for Public Television

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.

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A view to A view to Hugh : reflections on the creation of a processing blog

Fletcher, Stephen J. · 2011

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.

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Understanding the users of a large research university's library's information commons

Treneman, Gardner · 2010 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Поздравления из Северной Каролины : музей почтовых открыток Университета Северной Каролины в Чапел Хилле / Pozdravlenii︠a︡ iz Severnoĭ Karoliny : muzeĭ pochtovykh otkrytok Universiteta Severnoĭ Karoliny v Chapel Khille

Makhov, A. M. · 2009

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.

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Southern Fried Research: Scholarly Use and Non-Use of the Manuscript Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2009 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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An Analysis of Holdings of Selected Works of Seamus Heaney from 1965 to 1995 in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Rare Book Collection

2008 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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An Analysis of the Holdings of Certain Lady Gregory Monographs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Rare Book Collection

2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Planning for Retrospective Conversion of Legacy Finding Aids in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: A Case Study

2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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An Analysis of the Holdings of W.H. Auden Monographs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Rare Book Collection

2006 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Published by or for this institution

Battlelines: World War I Posters From The Bowman Gray Collection

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1988 · Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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I raised my hand to volunteer: students protest in 1960s Chapel Hill : an exhibit of the Manuscripts Department in the Wilson Library

Hollingsworth, Biff · 2007

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.

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Slavery and the making of the University: celebrating our unsung heroes, bond and free

2005

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.

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Windows.

1991 · Friends of the Library, Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Annual report of the University Library, University of North Carolina for the fiscal year . . .

1958

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.

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The library and the mission of university, 2013-2018

2013

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.

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American posters of the Great War

Chenault, Libby · 2002 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Staff handbook

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1979

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.

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Guide to the libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1976

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.

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North Carolina's literary heritage

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1970

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.

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[Posters for events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries]

2007 · UNC University Library

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.

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Guest register, 1988-1995 : North Caroliniana Gallery, University of North Carolina Library

1995

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.

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Dust jackets received in the North Carolina Collection, December 1977 through June 1989.

1993 · North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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.

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Guest register, 1990-1992, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina.

1992

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.

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Technical Services information bulletin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library · 1989 · The Library

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.

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Bernard Shaw's Constable correspondence : a descriptive essay

Synder, Phillip A. · 1985

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.

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Information for staff tours of Davis Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library; Ivins, October; Seibert, Karen S., 1944- · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library

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.

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Introduction to the Health Sciences Library

1983 · MSTL Television, School of Medicine UNC-CH in collaboration with the University of North Carolina

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.

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The early American tunebooks in the Annabel Morris Buchanan Collection : valued heirlooms, then as now

Lospinuso, Margaret Frishe, 1944- · 1980 · University of North Carolina Library for the Friends of the Library

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.

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Wilson Library stacks maps (1978).

1978 · s. l.

A volume of blueprint technical drawings showing the stacks layout of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated 1978.

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Guide to the libraries for graduate students and faculty.

1969 · University of North Carolina

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.

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A guide to the Robert Burton House Undergraduate Library : University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1969.

1969 · R.B. House Undergraduate Library

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.

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WWI propaganda posters: a selection from the Bowman Gray collection of materials related to WWI & WWII

1969 · Ackland Art Center

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.

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The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. Reader's Miscellany [1958]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1958 · The University of North Carolina Press

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.

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The southern garden : a study course for garden clubs

Hunt, William Lanier · 1934 · University of North Carolina Press

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.

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Library notes.

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.

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UNC electronic theses and dissertations

UNC University Library

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's electronic theses and dissertations, issued by the UNC University Library as a continuing resource.

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The North Carolina Collection : examples of recent acquisitions

H.G. Jones · 1990

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.

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The Bernard J. Flatow collection of Latin American cronistas in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : an annotated catalogue

Ilgen, William D. · 2005 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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African Americana in North Carolina and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Pyatt, Timothy D. · 1995

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.

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Annual Reports Of The North Caroliniana Society, Inc. And The North Carolina Collection.

North Caroliniana Society · 1975

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.

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Annual report of the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the fiscal year ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1977

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.

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The Southern Historical Collection : a guide to manuscripts

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1970 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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William Richardson Davie : soldier, statesman, and founder of the University of North Carolina : 1756-2006 semiquincentennial

Fulghum, Neil · 2006

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.

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The invisible process : ingenuity and cooperation in finding women's lives

Paris, Jan. · 1997 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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A guide to the archives of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1995 · Issued by the University Archives and Records Service

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.

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Women's voices in the Southern Oral History Program Collection

Southern Oral History Program · 1992 · Southern Oral History Program and Manuscripts Dept., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Periodicals and other serials held by the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1972 · The Library

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.

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List of Chinese books and periodicals in the Far Eastern Collection of the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1965 · The Library

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.

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Strategic framework for the University Libraries : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2019 · UNC University Libraries

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.

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Reform, reconstruction and redemption : the Northern impulse to save the South : an exhibition from the Southern Historical Collection.

2007

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.

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African-Americana in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1993

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.

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The Allard K. Lowenstein papers, 1924-1985 : a guide to the collection

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection · 1985 · Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Resources for women's studies in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1984 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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The Estiennes : an annotated catalogue of 300 outstanding books from their 16th and 17th century publishing houses

Schreiber, Fred · 1982

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.

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The Southern Historical Collection : supplementary guide to manuscripts, 1970-1975

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1976 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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Medieval and Renaissance studies : a location guide to selected reference works and source collections in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Humanities Division · 1974 · University of North Carolina

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.

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Report Of The Librarian Of The University Of North Carolina.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1911

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.

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News & views.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2006 · Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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Living in print : the legacy of Sylvia Plath.

1997 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina

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.

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Welcome to the libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1997 · Academic Affairs Library of the University

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.

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Rare Book Collection : information and guidelines

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1996 · The Collection

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.

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Home page : newsletter of the House Undergraduate Library.

1995 · The Library

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.

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Southern broadcast media history initiative

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1995 · The Collections

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.

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The southern business history initiative : saving the record of southern enterprise

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1995 · The Collection

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.

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Checklist of microform collections in the libraries of Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1987 · University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

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The green rising, 1910-1977 : a supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers : a guide to the collection.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection · 1978 · Microfilming Corporation of America

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.

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Corporate and institutional headings in the clipping file of the North Carolina Collection : supplement to the Subject heading list

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1965

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.

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A guide to library resources for political science students at the University of North Carolina

Brock, Clifton · 1965 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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Medieval and renaissance studies : a location guide to selected reference works and source collections in the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1965 · University of North Carolina

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.

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The Bookmark : Friends of the University of North Carolina Library.

1961

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.

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The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. North Carolina Musicians: A Selected Handbook [1956]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1956

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.

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The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. The Conflict of Political Ideas [1943]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1943 · The University of North Carolina Press

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.

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The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. At Home with the Fine Arts [1939]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1939 · The University of North Carolina Press

'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.

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Report of the Division of Library and Library School.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1935

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.

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Report of the librarian for the year ending ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1910

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.

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News sheet

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · The Library

Periodical news sheet issued by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill. Undated.

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Windows [2022 : spring-summer, v.29 : no.1

2022

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.

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Windows [2021 : fall-winter, v.28 : no.2

2021

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.

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Windows [2021 : spring-summer, v.28 : no.1

2021

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.

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Windows [2020 : fall-winter, v.27 : no.2

2020

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.

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Windows [2020 : spring-summer, v.27 : no.1

2020

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.

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Windows [2019 : fall-winter, v.26 : no.2

2019

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.

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Windows [2019 : spring-summer, v.26 : no.1

2019

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.

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Windows [2018 : spring, v.25 : no.1

2018

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.

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Windows [2018 : winter, v.25 : no.2

2018

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.

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Windows [2017 : spring, v.24 : no.1

2017

Spring 2017 issue of Windows, volume 24, number 1, covering the libraries of UNC Chapel Hill for the Friends of the Library.

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The library and the mission of the university : progress report 2013-2016

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2016

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.

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Windows [2016 : fall, v.23 : no.2

2016

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.

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Windows [2016 : spring, v.22 : no.3

2016

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.

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Windows [2015 : fall, v.22 : no.3

2015

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.

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Windows [2015 : winter, v.22 : no.2

2015

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.

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Windows [2014 : spring, v.22 : no.2

2014

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.

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The library and the mission of the university, 2013-2018

2013

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.

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Windows [2013 : summer, v.22 : no.1

2013

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.

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Windows [2012 : fall, v.21 : no.2

2012

Windows, fall 2012, volume 21, number 2: news from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries for the Friends of the Library.

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Windows [2012 : summer, v.21 : no.1

2012

Summer 2012 issue of Windows, volume 21, number 1, the Friends of the Library periodical at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Windows [2011 : fall, v.20 : no.2

2011

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.

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Windows [2011 : spring, v.20 : no.1

2011

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.

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Windows [2010 : fall, v.19 : no.2

2010

Volume 19, number 2 of Windows, fall 2010: the Friends of the Library periodical reporting on the libraries of UNC Chapel Hill.

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Windows [2010 : spring, v.19 : no.1

2010

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.

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Windows [2009 : fall, v.18 : no.2

2009

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.

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Windows [2009 : spring, v.18 : no.1

2009

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.

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Windows [2008 : fall, v.17 : no.2

2008

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.

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Windows [2008 : spring, v.17 : no.1

2008

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.

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Windows [2007 : fall, v.16 : no.2

2007

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.

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Windows [2007 : spring, v.16 : no.1

2007

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.

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Windows [2006 : fall, v.15 : no.2

2006

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.

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Windows [2006 : spring

2006

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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  • Start here · NC BIO GREEN ADA Paul Green of Chapel Hill Adams, Agatha Boyd · 1951

    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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  1. English Record Commission sends its publications to the university library Between 1833 and 1841 the British government's Record Commission gave the university 83 folio and 24 octavo volumes, among them a printing of the Domesday Book, with twelve books and many pamphlets by its secretary, Charles Parton Cooper. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 407 · Also: The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), April 24, 1834, p. 3
  2. Senior tutor becomes the university's librarian Until 1838 the faculty chose a librarian every half year; after that the senior tutor held the office, and in 1838 Tutor William H. Owen, librarian since 1836, was voted a salary of $100 a year. Owen had counted about 1,900 books in the library in December 1836. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 409
  3. Smith Hall is built to Alexander Jackson Davis's design as the university library and ballroom The New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis designed Smith Hall, built from 1850 to 1852 for just over $10,300 and named for the trustee and former governor Benjamin Smith. It served as library and ballroom and is now the Playmakers Theatre. People: Benjamin Smith UNC Names in Brick and Stone: PlayMakers Theater · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1982, p. 1
  4. University library moved from South Building to Smith Hall The university's books were taken from the president's lecture room in South Building to the new Smith Hall, and Hubbard, Charles Phillips and the librarian were told to prepare a catalogue. At the start of the Civil War the books were stored in a room of the East Building. People: Charles Phillips, Fordyce M. Hubbard Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 634
  5. The faculty elects Professor Mangum university librarian The university faculty chose Professor Mangum as university librarian. The same issue noted new and valuable books added to the university library. The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 22, 1879, p. 3
  6. The literary societies merge their libraries with the university's The Philanthropic Society voted almost unanimously and the Dialectic 42 to 30 to join their books to the university library in Smith Hall, to be called the Library of the University of North Carolina endowed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and opened every weekday. Borrowing rose from 3,657 books in 1885-86 to 4,761 the next year. People: George Tayloe Winston, James Lee Love Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 356
  7. A fire set on the library roof turns out the whole college On the night before examinations someone set a pile of paper alight on the roof of the university library and raised a cry of fire. Students came running with ladders, buckets and water and climbed to the roof before finding that it was a prank. The Chapel Hillian, June 2, 1891, p. 3
  8. Ralph H. Graves serves as University Librarian After graduating from the university in 1897, Ralph H. Graves served as University Librarian at Chapel Hill until he left for New York in 1899. He took his master's degree there in 1898. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 2 (Ralph Henry Graves)
  9. Edward Kidder Graham returns to Chapel Hill to manage the library After a year teaching at a Charlotte private school, Graham came back at Alderman's request to run the university library, and before the year was out Alderman made him an instructor in English at $700 a year. People: Edwin Anderson Alderman Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 40
  10. John Manning's widow gives his law library to the university The widow of John Manning, the university's late law teacher, gave his law library to the University of North Carolina. About the same time Henry Weill of Goldsboro gave the university library $1,000. People: John Manning Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 10, 1899, p. 2
  11. Henry Weil of Goldsboro gives the university library $1,000 Henry Weil of Goldsboro, a university trustee, gave the university library $1,000. The gift was listed that fall with Julian S. Carr's dormitory and James Sprunt's fund for historical monographs among recent trustee gifts. People: Julian S. Carr, James Sprunt Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1899, p. 3
  12. John Sprunt Hill endows the North Carolina Collection John Sprunt Hill gave the university library money for collecting historical and literary material about North Carolina, the start of what became the North Carolina Collection. NCpedia: Hill, John Sprunt (Roger N. Kirkman, 1988)
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  1. The university reports the Carnegie library endowment raised and the gift paid On University Day 1906 President Venable reported that the $50,000 endowment for the new library had been raised and Andrew Carnegie's $50,000 subscription paid. Construction began that month. People: Francis Preston Venable Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 660
  2. M. D. Foister wins the electrical contract for the university's Carnegie library M. D. Foister of Greensboro, who grew up in Chapel Hill, was awarded the contract for the electrical work on the new Carnegie library at the university, over competitors from other parts of the state. The News (Chapel Hill), November 15, 1906, p. 1
  3. Masons lay the cornerstone of the Carnegie library On the Saturday of the 1907 commencement the Grand Lodge of Masons, led by Grand Master Francis D. Winston, laid the cornerstone of the new library built with Andrew Carnegie's gift. Construction had begun in October 1906. People: M. C. S. Noble, Eric A. Abernethy, Francis D. Winston, Andrew Carnegie Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 664
  4. UNC's Carnegie Library opens UNC's new library, built with a gift from Andrew Carnegie first offered in 1905 as $50,000 and later raised to $55,000, was finished in the summer of 1907 and opened to students that fall once its furniture arrived. It served as the main library until Wilson Library opened in 1929 and was renamed for John Sprunt Hill in 1931. People: Andrew Carnegie UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Hill Hall
  5. Cornelia Spencer Love works as a librarian at the University of North Carolina Love came to Chapel Hill and worked in the university library from 1917 to 1948. She later wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village, published in 1976. UNC Libraries: Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, 1898-1978 finding aid
  6. Mary Lindsay Thornton becomes librarian of the North Carolina Collection Fresh out of library school, Mary Lindsay Thornton took charge of the university's North Carolina Collection, then about 1,500 items kept in a small upstairs corner room of the library building that later became Hill Music Hall. She led it for forty years. NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Thornton, Mary Lindsay
  7. The university buys Stephen B. Weeks's North Carolina library After Weeks died in May 1918, the university bought his collection of about 9,000 books and pamphlets on North Carolina. The purchase roughly doubled the North Carolina Collection's book holdings and became its nucleus. NCpedia: Historical Collections
  8. Fire destroys three fraternity houses on Fraternity Row and nearly takes the Carnegie Library Fire broke out about 2 a.m. and destroyed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pi Kappa Phi and Sigma Nu houses at the lower end of Fraternity Row, a private lane behind the Carnegie Library. The library, about thirty feet from the Sigma Nu house, lost only some window panes and had water damage. The university then bought land across South Columbia Street and swapped it with the fraternities for their old lots, which led to the fraternity courts of the 1920s. The Tar Heel, January 17, 1919, p. 1 · Also: NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975
  9. The University library ends its year with nearly 120,000 volumes At the close of the 1922-23 year the University library held nearly 120,000 volumes, received 1,005 magazines and newspapers, and lent 67,100 items, the largest circulation in its history. Its basement was floored for the extension department, and two sites were being weighed for a new library building. People: Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1923, p. 4
  10. C. Alphonso Smith leaves his library to the University The will of C. Alphonso Smith, a former head of the University's English department who had died in June at Annapolis, left the University his library of some 6,000 volumes, except for what his widow chose to keep. People: Charles Alphonso Smith The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 1
  11. Preston Davie starts the Governor William Richardson Davie Carolina Collection at the University library Preston Davie of New York gave the University of North Carolina library two rare North Carolina histories as the beginning of a collection to be known as the Governor William Richardson Davie Carolina Collection. People: William Richardson Davie Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 2 (1925), p. 545
  12. Elizabeth Janet Gray joins the UNC library staff Elizabeth Janet Gray, later Elizabeth Gray Vining, came to Chapel Hill in 1926 as an assistant cataloger at the University library, after library school at Drexel. Friends in town knew her as Betty Gray. Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections (Philadelphia Area Archives): Elizabeth Gray Vining papers · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 4, 1927, p. 1
  13. Hamilton announces plans for a manuscript collection at UNC Hamilton announced plans for what he first called the National Southern Collection of manuscripts at the university. It became the Southern Historical Collection after Sarah Graham Kenan's gift in 1930. NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
  14. The legislature allows $625,000 for a new university library Plans had called for a library costing as much as $862,000. After Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, just over half of all the capital money for the campus. Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, R. B. House Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 371 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1927, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 19, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 17, 1928, p. 1
  15. Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building. The Tar Heel, February 12, 1927, p. 1
  16. UNC library worker Elizabeth Janet Gray sells her first book Gray, a member of the University library staff, signed a contract with Doubleday, Page & Co. for Meredith's Ann, a story for girls set in the New Hampshire mountains. She went on to write several more books while living in Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 4, 1927, p. 1
  17. University library receives an art collection from the Carnegie foundation The University was one of twenty institutions chosen to receive an art library from the Carnegie foundation: about 225 volumes on art history, criticism and appreciation, more than 2,000 fine prints, and samples of textiles, embroidery, wood-cuts and engravings, valued at $5,000 to $10,000 and housed in the librarian's office. People: Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 23, 1928, p. 1
  18. Hanes family establishes the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Book at UNC In memory of their parents John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes, the Hanes children set up at the University a foundation for the study of the origin and development of the book, with an initial gift of $30,000. Dr. Fred M. Hanes announced it in an address to the Graduate Club; the collection was to range from rare volumes to tablets, papyri and manuscripts. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1929, p. 4
  19. Trustees approve a library school paid for by a $100,000 Carnegie grant At commencement Chase won the trustees' permission to set up a school to train librarians in the new library, with its first five years funded by a $100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 398 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1929, p. 3
  20. The new University Library opens for use By the summer school of 1929 the university's new library was in use, with Librarian L. R. Wilson and his staff in their offices and hundreds of students at its tables. The Weekly noted its electric book conveyor, which carried books down from the stacks to the delivery desk. People: Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 1
  21. The new University Library, later Wilson Library, is dedicated UNC dedicated its new University Library, planned by Arthur Cleveland Nash and William Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, on October 19, 1929, weeks after students began using the building that fall. It served as the main campus library for decades, was named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, and after a 1984 to 1987 renovation became the home of UNC's special collections. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Louis Round Wilson Library; with North Carolina Architects and Builders (NCSU Libraries): McKim, Mead and White · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1929, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1981, p. 6
  22. The Southern Historical Collection is established In May 1930 Sarah Graham Kenan of Wilmington gave UNC $25,000 to buy books, periodicals, letters and diaries for the Southern Historical Collection being gathered by history professor J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, who became its first director. The Chapel Hill Weekly called the giver Mrs. Graham Kenan of Wilmington, who had earlier endowed a philosophy fellowship in her husband's memory. Kept in the new library, the collection grew into a leading repository of manuscripts on the American South. People: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 4
  23. The old Carnegie Library is dedicated as the music building After the library moved to its new building, the Carnegie Library was remodeled for the music department with an auditorium and a Reuter organ, most of the cost given by the Hill family. It was dedicated on November 14, 1930, and named Hill Music Hall by trustee resolution in the summer of 1931. People: Harold S. Dyer Names in Brick and Stone: Hill Hall · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 14, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1930, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 5
  24. The University library receives a Siamese Buddhist canon from the King of Siam King Prajadhipok of Siam gave the University library the latest Siamese edition of the Buddhist canon, the Phra Tripitaka, in forty-five volumes, as a memorial to an earlier king. The gift came through the Siamese legation in Washington with three volumes of another religious work. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 31, 1931, p. 1
  25. Elizabeth Henderson Cotten becomes assistant to J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton at the Southern Historical Collection Six years after moving to Chapel Hill as a widow, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten began work as J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton's assistant in building the Southern Historical Collection in the university library, and became its first curator. People: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton NCpedia: Cotten, Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, C. Sylvester Green)
  26. The university library counts 236,162 volumes The survey committee reported 236,162 volumes in the library at Chapel Hill, 41,432 of them bound periodicals, with strong holdings in chemistry, zoology and botany. It credited two decades of building by the librarian and contrasted State College's 29,023 volumes in 1930. Commission on University Consolidation, Report of Commission on University Consolidation (1932), scan p. 38 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 14, 1932, p. 1
  27. The General Education Board gives the University library $30,000 for bibliographies President Graham announced the gift, to buy printed catalogues of the great libraries, national and subject bibliographies and equipment, the basic tools the library wanted for a strong graduate school. People: Frank Porter Graham The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1932, p. 8
  28. The University names R. B. Downs acting librarian and Susan Akers acting head of the library school By September 23, 1932 the University had appointed R. B. Downs acting librarian and Miss Susan Grey Akers acting director of the library school. Both posts had been held by Louis Round Wilson, who resigned to go to the University of Chicago's graduate library school. People: Susan Grey Akers, Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1932, p. 1
  29. The Social Science Research Council names the University library North Carolina's government document center The national Social Science Research Council named the University library in Chapel Hill the official government document center for North Carolina. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1932, p. 2
  30. Federal relief money pays library workers to sort the Southern Historical Collection An allotment of federal relief funds administered by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation let the University Library put workers to sorting and cataloguing the Southern Historical Collection, some 100,000 books, pamphlets, letters and diaries that J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton had gathered across the South and that had waited in the library basement for lack of money. The same aid paid for work on a bibliography of Southern Americana. People: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 23, 1933, p. 1
  31. Robert B. Downs is confirmed as University librarian On President Graham's recommendation the trustees' executive committee confirmed Robert Bingham Downs, acting librarian and associate professor of library science, as University librarian in succession to Louis R. Wilson, who had gone to the University of Chicago. People: Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 20, 1933, p. 4
  32. Katherine Pendleton Arrington gives the University two gargoyles and a bishop from Westminster Stone carvings removed from the Houses of Parliament in London, two gargoyles from the Big Ben clock tower and a figure of Archbishop Stephen Langton from a frieze, bought by Mrs. Arrington that summer, arrived in Chapel Hill with freight paid. Too heavy for any campus floor, they were set in the Library basement near the North Carolina room, and the gift revived talk of a University museum, with Person Hall suggested. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1933, p. 1
  33. Students at the University and Duke gain borrowing rights in each other's libraries Arrangements were made by which students of either the University of North Carolina or Duke University could borrow books from the other institution's library. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1933, p. 1
  34. The General Education Board gives $12,500 to exchange the University and Duke library catalogs The General Education Board granted $12,500 to the libraries of the University of North Carolina and Duke University to duplicate their catalogs, so that each library would hold a catalog of the other's books. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 4, 1934, p. 2
  35. Emma Long gives the university library a collection on her father, Dr. Crawford W. Long Miss Emma Long, daughter of the surgeon Crawford W. Long, who first used ether as an anesthetic in surgery, presented the University library a collection of books and pamphlets about her father through Mrs. Lyman Cotten of Chapel Hill. It included photographs of his birthplace and of the house in Jefferson, Georgia, where he first operated with ether. The News (Chapel Hill), June 7, 1934, p. 1
  36. The University and Duke libraries photograph their card catalogues for each other Under an agreement between the two universities, a Remington-Rand operator with a Dexigraph machine photographed the thousands of cards in the University Library's catalogue, a thousand at a time on film, after finishing Duke's, so that each library would hold a copy of the other's catalogue. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1934, p. 1
  37. Elizabeth Henderson Cotten supervises the WPA guide to the Southern Historical Collection Cotten was production supervisor of the Works Progress Administration project that produced the Guide to the Manuscripts in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina, published in 1940. NCpedia: Cotten, Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, C. Sylvester Green)
  38. The Hill family gives the Carolina Inn to the university John Sprunt Hill and his family gave the Carolina Inn, which he had built in 1924, to the university on the condition that its income support the North Carolina Collection. Hill presented the Inn at a meeting of the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh, which the Chapel Hill Weekly put on Wednesday, June 5, 1935; Names in Brick and Stone gives June 4. Names in Brick and Stone: Hill Hall · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 22, 1935, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1981, p. 1
  39. The Bull's Head Bookshop moves into the University Library basement As the Bull's Head Bookshop was about to close, University Librarian R. B. Downs saved it by giving it room and staff in the extension library in the Library basement under Nellie Roberson. Moved from the Y.M.C.A. building, it reopened in mid-October to sell and rent books and began a series of Tuesday talks, opening with W. T. Couch of the University Press. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1935, p. 1
  40. The University joins its Library and School of Library Science in one division The University reorganized its Library and its School of Library Science into a single division under one administrative board. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1935, p. 1
  41. The WPA grants $5,040 to catalogue the Southern Historical Collection The University Library received a $5,040 Works Progress Administration grant for classifying, arranging and cataloguing the books and papers of the Southern Historical Collection. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 1
  42. General Education Board gives $50,000 to build UNC and Duke library collections together The General Education Board of New York gave the University and Duke University $50,000, divided equally, to build research collections in the biological, physical and social sciences and English literature under a cooperative plan that avoided duplicate purchases. The two libraries already shared borrowing privileges, a daily delivery service and copies of each other's card catalogs. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 14, 1936, p. 5
  43. The Bull's Head Bookshop announces a talk by Hope Summerell Chamberlain on Old Days in Chapel Hill The Bull's Head Bookshop on the ground floor of the University Library announced a talk by Chamberlain about her book for Tuesday afternoon, October 13, with autographed copies on sale for $1.35. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1936, p. 2 (Bull's Head Bookshop notice)
  44. The University Library reaches 350,000 volumes Librarian R. B. Downs's annual report counted 350,000 books, 20,642 added in the year, and 446,833 loans, up 29 percent; he urged building one of the two wings planned for the building. The library's women's club section served 1,372 clubs. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1937, p. 4
  45. Carl M. White is appointed Librarian of the University Carl M. White, librarian of Fisk University, was appointed Librarian of the University to succeed Robert B. Downs, who had resigned to go to New York University. He was to take up the post that summer. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Louis Round Wilson The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 1
  46. The Roanoke Colony Memorial Association funds a Sir Walter Raleigh collection at the University library The Roanoke Colony Memorial Association, its work done once the Park Service took over Fort Raleigh, gave the University library $1,500 to found a Sir Walter Raleigh memorial collection of his writings, biographies and Roanoke colony material in the North Carolina Collection. Acting librarian O. V. Cook said 83 Raleigh items and 159 on the colonies were already in hand. People: Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook, Hugh Talmage Lefler The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 22, 1940, p. 4
  47. Charles E. Rush takes charge of the university library Charles E. Rush, head of the Cleveland Public Library and a former vice president of the American Library Association, took over as university librarian, succeeding Carl M. White, who had left for the University of Illinois. Assistant librarian Olan V. Cook had run the library in the meantime. People: Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook, R. B. House The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1941, p. 4
  48. UNC students form the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps and the Library organizes a War Information Center In the week of Pearl Harbor the University Library organized a War Information Center (on December 8, by the Weekly's later account) and asked for pamphlets and books on the war and defense, planning to open it in early January. On December 11, at the suggestion of sophomore Henry Wisebram, students formed the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps; ninety signed up at the first meeting, drill was to begin after the holidays, and the University accepted it in place of required physical exercise. People: Henry Roland Totten, Charles E. Rush NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 25 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1941, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 19, 1941, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1942, p. 1
  49. University Library exhibits the Venable collection of Confederate orders and letters The Charles Scott Venable collection of more than 300 Confederate orders, letters, telegrams and reports, given to the Southern Historical Collection by Mrs. Francis P. Venable, went on exhibit in seven cases on the main floor of the University Library. Venable, father of the late University president Francis P. Venable, had served on Robert E. Lee's staff; the papers include letters to Lee signed by Jefferson Davis and reports from Beauregard, Longstreet, Stuart, Pickett and other generals. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1943, p. 1
  50. Kay Kyser and his mother give Dean Edward Vernon Howell's library to UNC Bandleader Kay Kyser and his mother, Mrs. Emily Royster Howell Kyser of Rocky Mount, gave the university library the private library of Edward Vernon Howell, the first dean of the School of Pharmacy, who had served thirty-four years. The collection held more than 3,500 items, many on North Carolina and the South during the Civil War. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 23 (1946), p. 114
  51. James Welch Patton becomes director of the Southern Historical Collection Patton succeeded J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton as director of the Southern Historical Collection at the UNC library and taught a North Carolina history course each year while he held the post. People: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton NCpedia: Patton, James Welch
  52. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton retires as director of the Southern Historical Collection By July 29, 1948, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton had resigned as director of the university's Southern Historical Collection, retiring after 42 years with the University of North Carolina. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 29, 1948, p. 4
  53. Howard Mumford Jones gives the address at the dedication of the university library addition Howard Mumford Jones, a former member of the university's English faculty then at Harvard, gave the principal address, on the library in higher education, at the dedication of the $1.6 million addition to the university library, held in Memorial Hall. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Charles E. Rush The Daily Tar Heel, April 18, 1952, p. 1
  54. Jerrold Orne is appointed University Librarian Chancellor Robert B. House announced Orne's appointment as university librarian, effective August 1, with the approval of President William C. Friday and the trustees. Orne came from the Air University library at Maxwell Air Force Base and succeeded Andrew H. Horn. People: William C. Friday, Andrew H. (Andrew Harlis) Horn, R. B. House The Daily Tar Heel, June 7, 1957, p. 3 (Administration Announces Four New Appointments)
  55. The Friends of the Library honor Elizabeth Henderson Cotten At its 1958 meeting the Friends of the Library, which Cotten had helped organize and served as first secretary, gave her a citation for her work for the university library. NCpedia: Cotten, Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, C. Sylvester Green)
  56. William S. Powell becomes curator of the North Carolina Collection Powell, who had joined the university library's North Carolina Collection in 1951, was named its curator after Mary Lindsay Thornton retired. People: Mary Lindsay Thornton NCpedia: Powell, William S.
  57. An Interlibrary Center at Wilson Library takes over lending to North Carolina libraries The University of North Carolina set up an Interlibrary Center in Wilson Library to run a book exchange and information service for the state's libraries, replacing the University Library's Extension Division, which closed in January. Using the North Carolina Union Catalog it forwards requests to the nearest library holding a book; the Orange County Confederate Memorial Library at Hillsboro was among the participants. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1958, p. 4
  58. The University library receives its millionth volume on University Day At the University Day exercises Frank B. Hanes of Winston-Salem presented the University of North Carolina library with its one millionth volume, received by librarian Jerrold Orne and Chancellor William B. Aycock. A 13-year listing of 3,486 graduate dissertations and theses was published as part of the celebration. People: Jerrold Orne, William B. Aycock The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1960, p. 1
  59. Isaac M. Taylor serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine Taylor succeeded W. Reece Berryhill as dean in 1964. Student enrollment, faculty and research funding grew during his deanship, and a ten-year capital building program began that produced Berryhill Hall, the first phase of the Health Sciences Library, and the Brinkhous-Bullitt and Burnett-Womack Buildings. People: W. Reece Berryhill Carolina Story: Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) and Taylor Hall
  60. A federal grant enlarges the plans for UNC's undergraduate library A $657,000 grant under the federal Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 let UNC enlarge its planned undergraduate library from a $1,315,000 building of about 60,000 square feet to a $1,972,000 building of about 80,000. The library, to stand beside Wilson Library and be named for former chancellor Robert B. House, was planned to seat 2,000 and open in mid-1968. People: R. B. House The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1966, p. 1
  61. Wooden buildings are moved to clear the site of the undergraduate library and student union To make way for a $7 million complex of a new undergraduate library, student union and book exchange near Wilson Library, Bingham Hall and Lenoir Hall, the University moved three wooden buildings, the Duplicating Shop, the old Veterans' Club and Bingham X, to Emerson Field and began clearing the ground. Planning director Arthur N. Tuttle said bids were to open about October 1, with completion hoped for in the spring of 1968. The Daily Tar Heel, July 14, 1966, p. 4
  62. Phillips Russell gives the University library a map of Chapel Hill's 1892 business district A pencil map of the Franklin Street business district as it stood in 1892, drawn by Ralph Trimble from a sketch Phillips Russell made in talks with Julia Graves, mother of Chapel Hill Weekly founder Louis Graves, was placed in the North Carolina Collection. It runs from the old Baptist church at Church and Franklin streets to the Presbyterian lot and shows the Masonic Lodge, for many years the district's only brick building. People: Phillips Russell The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1966, p. 4
  63. J. Isaac Copeland directs the Southern Historical Collection Copeland served as chief of the UNC library's Manuscripts Department and director of the Southern Historical Collection from 1967 to 1975, between James Welch Patton and Carolyn A. Wallace, and taught history at UNC. People: James Welch Patton, Carolyn Andrews Wallace UNC Libraries, University Archives: Manuscripts Department of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1926-2014
  64. Workers begin the foundations of UNC's undergraduate library Crews began the foundation forms for the new undergraduate library on part of the old Wilson Library parking lot, where the trees had been cut in March. The library, put at about $1.96 million, was one of three buildings in one contract with the new Graham Memorial student union and Book Exchange, and the University's construction office said the work was ahead of schedule for completion in 1968. The Daily Tar Heel, April 8, 1967, p. 1
  65. UNC trustees name the new student stores building for Josephus Daniels Meeting in Greensboro, the university trustees approved naming for Josephus Daniels, class of 1885 and a long-time trustee, the building then going up near Wilson Library to house the book store and student administrative offices. The Josephus Daniels Book Store, which took in the Book Exchange, opened in September 1968. The Carolina Story: Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) and Daniels Student Stores · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1967, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1968, p. 1
  66. The Weil family of Goldsboro gives nearly $23,000 toward a UNC special collections building Plans for a building beside Wilson Library to house the North Carolina Collection, the Rare Book Room and the Southern Historical Collection were advanced by a gift of nearly $23,000 from the Weil family of Goldsboro. The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1968, p. 6
  67. A Health Sciences Library for UNC's five health affairs schools goes up The Daily Tar Heel reported that a Health Sciences Library to serve all five health affairs schools was under construction, along with an Ambulatory Patient Care Facility being added to the north and south of N.C. Memorial Hospital, a dental school teaching building and a research building. In September the paper expected the Health Affairs Library to be finished during the school year. The Daily Tar Heel, July 18, 1968, p. 1
  68. The undergraduate library named for R. B. House opens The new undergraduate library behind Lenoir Hall, still being finished in the summer of 1968, opened that fall as the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library, named for the former chancellor. Late shelving pushed back a planned September 1 opening; the reserve reading collection opened on the main floor in early October, and the undergraduate collection began moving over from Wilson Library on October 28, the Daily Tar Heel reported. UNC Names in Brick and Stone: House Undergraduate Library · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 5, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1968, p. 1
  69. UNC's library spending passes a million dollars a year as holdings reach 1.7 million volumes University Librarian Jerrold Orne reported that the library system added more than 100,000 books in 1969-70, reaching 1,722,768 bound volumes plus 386,680 on microfilm, and that spending on library materials had passed a million dollars a year for the first time. People: Jerrold Orne The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1970, p. 1
  70. UNC dedicates its new Health Sciences Library The University dedicated its $1.8 million Health Sciences Library, the first stage of a building that brought the libraries of the medicine, dentistry, nursing and public health schools under one roof, with about 125,000 volumes and seats for 560. President William C. Friday welcomed the guests and Dr. Lloyd Stevenson of the Welch Institute at Johns Hopkins gave the dedication address. People: William C. Friday, Myrl Ebert The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1971, p. 5
  71. Powell moves from the North Carolina Collection to the history faculty Powell left the North Carolina Collection to teach North Carolina history on the UNC faculty, where he stayed until 1986 and taught more than 6,000 students. UNC News Archives: Noted historian William Powell left his mark on state (April 16, 2015)
  72. Louise McGwigan Hall is named acting University Librarian Louise McGwigan Hall, on the UNC library staff since 1947 and chief of the Humanities Division of Reference Services since 1957, was named acting University Librarian, succeeding Dr. Jerrold Orne, who had resigned to join the School of Library Science faculty. The post put her over Wilson Library, the Undergraduate Library and the departmental libraries. People: Jerrold Orne The Daily Tar Heel, January 16, 1973, p. 2
  73. James F. Govan becomes director of the UNC library James F. Govan, head librarian of Swarthmore College since 1965, arrived in mid-August 1973 as director of the University's two-million-volume library and began drawing up a 20-year plan for collections, staff and buildings. He noted that the Association of Research Libraries ranked UNC 23rd of 58 research libraries. People: James F Govan The Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1973, p. 1
  74. Wilson Library uses a federal grant to build its Afro-American collection Wilson and the undergraduate library began spending a $5,000 federal grant for minority studies materials, mostly on Afro-American works, with students invited to suggest titles. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 1973, p. 1
  75. Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell give UNC's Southern Historical Collection some 4,000 theater items Actress Eugenia Rawls and her husband, producer and lawyer Donald Seawell, both UNC alumni, gave the Southern Historical Collection about 4,000 items of theater memorabilia, including souvenirs of Noel Coward, home movies of Tallulah Bankhead, letters of Fanny Kemble and about 20 costumes from Rawls's one-woman shows. Some of the photographs, letters, programs and clippings went on display in Wilson Library. The Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1973, p. 2
  76. H. G. Jones becomes curator of the North Carolina Collection Jones succeeded William S. Powell as curator of UNC's North Carolina Collection and adjunct professor of history. He held the curatorship until he retired in 1994. People: William S. Powell The Historical Society of North Carolina: Dr. H. G. Jones
  77. The University library receives its two millionth volume on University Day At the University Day exercises in Hill Hall on the University's 181st birthday, Frank B. Hanes, whose family had given the millionth book in 1960, presented the library its two millionth volume, a first printing of The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, one of only eight known, which the paper said an anonymous St. Albans schoolmaster compiled in 1481. The exercises also gave Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Archie K. Davis, the speaker, and to Holt McPherson, Thomas B. Stroup, Katherine Way and Tom Wicker. People: N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
  78. Carolyn A. Wallace heads the Southern Historical Collection and the Manuscripts Department Wallace, born in Hillsborough, served as curator of the UNC library's Manuscripts Department and director of the Southern Historical Collection from 1975 to 1987, following James I. Copeland. People: J. Isaac Copeland UNC Libraries, University Archives: Manuscripts Department of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1926-2014
  79. Work begins on a $3.75 million stack addition to Wilson Library Construction of the long-delayed Wilson Library stack addition, funded by the state since 1973, was set to begin July 14 behind the library. The limestone-faced addition of about 100,000 square feet would hold a million volumes on ten stack levels, with five two-story lounges, 750 carrels and, for the first time, windows in the stacks; it was due to be finished by summer 1977. The Daily Tar Heel, July 10, 1975, p. 3
  80. The North Caroliniana Society is chartered H. G. Jones, William S. Powell and Louis M. Connor Jr. chartered the North Caroliniana Society to promote North Carolina's historical, cultural and literary heritage. Its office is at UNC, and its main beneficiary is the North Carolina Collection. People: William S. Powell North Caroliniana Society: About
  81. The 1775 Liberty Point Resolves turn up in UNC's Southern Historical Collection A search by David S. Clark of the Cumberland County Bicentennial Commission located the 1775 Liberty Point Resolves, signed at Fayetteville by 55 opponents of British rule and lost track of since 1851, in the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library, catalogued as the "Cumberland Association" among the Thomas G. Polk papers. The original stayed in Chapel Hill and a copy went on display in Fayetteville. The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1975, p. 2
  82. UNC trustees plan to spend the utilities sale money on libraries The UNC Board of Trustees approved a plan to use the University's share of the utilities sale, about $31.5 million, to build a new central library, renovate Wilson Library and add three floors to the Health Sciences Library. The plan still needed the approval of the UNC Board of Governors and the state Advisory Budget Commission. People: N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1976, p. 8
  83. UNC Board of Governors assigns the University utility-sale money to a new central library Meeting the day it approved the 1977-79 budget request, the UNC Board of Governors assigned the proceeds of selling the Chapel Hill campus utilities, estimated at about $42 million with the first $10 million going to the state, to a new central library ($22.6 million), three more floors on the Health Sciences Library ($2.7 million) and the renovation of Wilson Library ($5.6 million), projects the campus trustees had approved July 30. It also approved $600,000 to move the Chase Cafeteria food service to the first floor, the plan that displaced Upendo Lounge. People: William C. Friday The Daily Tar Heel, October 11, 1976, p. 1
  84. UNC trustees question the size of the planned central library and put off choosing an architect Hearing that the proposed $22 million central library on the Carolina Union parking lot would have 440,000 square feet, against 260,000 in Wilson Library, the Board of Trustees voted 7 to 3 to have a subcommittee under John A. Tate Jr. restudy the plan and set a way to choose among eight architectural firms. On February 11 the board again put off the choice, to March 11. People: N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, January 24, 1977, p. 1
  85. UNC trustees hear that the University library has slipped in national rankings A revised five-year plan presented to the trustees showed UNC's national rank in library acquisitions had fallen from 20th in 1964 to 28th in 1976 and in total library spending from 25th to 30th, with officials warning federal research grants could suffer. People: James F Govan, N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1977, p. 1
  86. UNC's library rises in the Association of Research Libraries rankings The Association of Research Libraries' 1977 rankings of about 100 universities placed the UNC library system 25th in volumes held, with 2,274,173, and showed it rising from 49th to 38th in volumes added, 28th to 21st in materials spending and 30th to 28th in total operating spending. University Librarian James Govan credited the Board of Governors' added library support of the past four years and said a new library on the Carolina Union parking lot was expected in 1982. The Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1978, p. 1
  87. UNC receives a federal grant to catalog the Annabel Morris Buchanan folklore collection The National Endowment for the Humanities gave UNC $15,020 to organize, analyze and index the folklore collection of Annabel Morris Buchanan, given to the University the previous fall, including 44 rare nineteenth-century religious tunebooks and her own folksong transcriptions. The Daily Tar Heel, July 13, 1978, p. 6
  88. UNC trustees approve plans to double the Health Sciences Library The UNC Board of Trustees approved final drawings for a $3.8 million project adding three floors to the Health Sciences Library, built in 1970 on foundations meant for six, doubling it to 64,000 square feet and raising its capacity from 190,000 to 263,000 volumes. The work was to be paid for with money from the sale of the University's utilities, with construction expected to begin about March. The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1978, p. 2
  89. UNC libraries add the Journal of Homosexuality and Christopher Street Wilson Library's periodicals reading room began carrying the Journal of Homosexuality and the Undergraduate Library added the magazine Christopher Street at the start of 1979. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), January 1979, p. 9
  90. UNC libraries decide to charge faculty members overdue fines The University library system ended its policy of exempting faculty from overdue fines, deciding that from October faculty would pay the same 25 cents a day as students after an overdue notice and lose borrowing privileges above $15 in fines. The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1979, p. 1
  91. An electrical fire forces the evacuation of the Wilson Library annex A short in an elevator control panel caused a small fire in an equipment room on the roof of the Wilson Library annex early in the morning, forcing a brief evacuation; a repairman put it out, and one elevator was out for weeks. The Daily Tar Heel, January 28, 1981, p. 1
  92. UNC trustees name the new central library for Walter R. Davis Meeting at Kill Devil Hills, the Board of Trustees voted to name the $22.3 million central library then under construction for Walter R. Davis, the former trustees chairman and new Board of Governors member who led the funding through the sale of University utilities. The trustees also elected Newman A. Townsend Jr. chairman. People: Walter Royal Davis The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1981, p. 1
  93. The university librarian turns down an Afro-American Studies reading room in Davis Library Afro-American Studies had asked in 1981 for a reading room in the new Walter Royal Davis Library to hold journals, manuscripts and tapes on Africans and African Americans. University Librarian James F. Govan said in spring 1983 that no academic unit would get a room for its subject. People: James F Govan Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 22, 1984, p. 5
  94. UNC accepts the new Davis Library from its contractor By mid-September 1983 University officials had legally accepted the Walter Royal Davis Library from its contractor, T.A. Loving Co. of Goldsboro, after weeks of delay over 34 aluminum window frames damaged by a cleaning solution, which the contractor agreed to replace by January 13. A $400-a-day late penalty was still unsettled; furniture was to be installed over two months, the books were to move from January 12, and the opening was set tentatively for the first week of February 1984. The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1983, p. 3
  95. UNC's library marks its three millionth volume At the University Day convocation in Memorial Hall on October 12, 1983, the University library celebrated the acquisition of its three millionth volume, part of a collection of 300 rare books printed by the Estienne family and given by the John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book. The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1983, p. 1
  96. Wilson Library closes its general collection as books move to the new Davis Library February 2, 1984, was the last day of general service at Wilson Library, ending a move begun January 12 in which Apollo Moving Specialists of Minnesota, under a $240,000 contract, carried the general collection, about 50 miles of shelving, to the new Walter Royal Davis Library. Only the Rare Book Collection, the North Carolina Collection, the manuscripts and Southern Historical Collection and the map and photographic departments stayed open in Wilson, with about 200,000 lesser-used books paged from Davis, which was to open the following Monday. The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1984, p. 1
  97. Davis Library opens The university's new library building, named the Walter Royal Davis Library for the trustee and benefactor, opened in Chapel Hill on February 7, 1984, after the main collections moved over from Wilson Library the weekend before. Lambda later gave the opening as February 17. Carolina Story: Walter Royal Davis (1920-2008) and Davis Library · Also: Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1, 1984, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1983, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1984, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1984, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1985, p. 2
  98. Work begins on renovating Wilson Library Renovation of Wilson Library began in April 1984, shortly after Davis Library opened, to install new air conditioning, upgrade the electrical and plumbing systems and refurbish the main rooms at a cost of about $5.7 million. In October 1985 the University said the work was on schedule for a fall 1986 reopening, when Wilson would house the rare book, North Carolina, map and manuscripts collections. People: James F Govan The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1985, p. 2
  99. Symposium marks the opening of Allard Lowenstein's papers at the Southern Historical Collection About 175 people attended a two-day symposium in the Carolina Union, held as the Southern Historical Collection finished processing the papers of Allard K. Lowenstein, the 1949 UNC graduate and civil rights and antiwar organizer. Historian Otis L. Graham Jr. gave the keynote, and panels with members of Congress and others discussed how one person could make a difference. People: Douglass Hunt The Daily Tar Heel, April 1, 1985, p. 1
  100. Governor Jim Martin dedicates Davis Library Before about 500 people, Governor Martin dedicated the Walter Royal Davis Library and unveiled a bronze bust of Davis, the former trustees' chairman who had lobbied for its funding from the sale of the University's telephone system. Vice President George Bush had been booked for April 26 but canceled, and a faculty Books-Not-Bombs committee led by Nell Painter and Leon Fink, which had planned a silent protest against his selection, called its protest off. People: Walter Royal Davis, Christopher C. Fordham III, Leon Fink The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1985, p. 1
  101. Davis Library wins the Louis I. Kahn Citation for design Walter R. Davis Library, the only North Carolina entry among 94 projects, received the Louis I. Kahn Citation in American School and University magazine's architectural portfolio; the judges praised its handling of an enormous building on a tight site beside Georgian and modern neighbors. The Philadelphia architects received a $1,000 award, and Boney Architects of Wilmington also worked on the building. The Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1985, p. 1
  102. Engineers find Davis Library's east floor settling and plan to open the slab A structural engineer reported that the earth fill under the east side of the two-year-old, $22.5 million Davis Library had settled, cracking floors and toilets, and the architects, Boney Architects of Wilmington, planned to remove part of the floor to find the cause. The Daily Tar Heel, April 8, 1986, p. 1
  103. Wilson Library reopens after a $5.5 million renovation as UNC's special collections library Closed three years for renovation, the 1929 Louis Round Wilson Library reopened as the home of the manuscripts collections (the Southern Historical and Southern Folklife collections and the University Archives), the Maps Collection, the Rare Book Collection and the North Carolina Collection, with the North Caroliniana Gallery and Photographic Services. The Ackland Art Museum's offices were to move into the building during the museum's renovation. The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1987, p. 1
  104. UNC libraries cut purchases after a second year without a state increase for new materials For the second year running the General Assembly gave UNC no increase for new library materials, leaving 1988-89 acquisitions money at $3,276,254, up 2.1 percent only through University funds. Library officials said they had lost $787,455 in buying power in two years, cut book funds 29 percent and bought only top-priority requests; the Health Sciences Library canceled 175 serial subscriptions to save more than $40,000. The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1988, p. 1
  105. The North Carolina Collection Gallery opens in Wilson Library A gallery conceived by North Carolina Collection curator H. G. Jones opened in the east wing of Wilson Library, with R. Neil Fulghum as its first keeper, to exhibit items the library had collected. Names in Brick and Stone: Louis Round Wilson Library
  106. Sounds of the South conference marks the opening of UNC's Southern Folklife Collection More than 300 collectors, folklorists, musicians and archivists met at UNC-Chapel Hill for the official opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection. Daniel W. Patterson, who helped build the collection, was among the presenters with Alan Lomax and Mike Seeger. People: Mike Seeger UNC Libraries, Southern Folklife Collection: Sounds of the South Collection, 1989
  107. UNC's libraries cancel $60,000 in subscriptions as prices outrun their budget Library officials said funding had risen 4 percent since 1986-87 while subscription prices rose 28.4 percent and book prices 22 percent; departments canceled $60,000 in journals and marked $80,000 more for possible cuts, and new acquisitions had fallen to 44,000 volumes against a ten-year average of 77,000. The Daily Tar Heel, September 1, 1989, p. 1
  108. North Carolina Collection curator H.G. Jones receives the AASLH Award of Distinction H.G. Jones, curator of the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library, received the American Association for State and Local History's Award of Distinction, the 11th in the association's 50 years, for three decades of work in archives and the preservation of local, state and national history. The Daily Tar Heel, October 16, 1989, p. 3
  109. UNC's Health Sciences Library goes smoke-free A no-smoking policy took effect at the Health Sciences Library on October 1, with ash containers placed at the entrance for smokers. The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1989, p. 3
  110. UNC's libraries report a fall in buying power and ranking Assistant University Librarian Larry Alford said UNC libraries had cancelled 1,000 serial subscriptions in research areas between 1988 and 1990 and had slipped from 10th in 1985-86 to 27th in 1988-89 among research libraries in spending on books, needing about $1.8 million more a year to regain 1984-85 buying power. The Daily Tar Heel, March 22, 1990, p. 1
  111. UNC's library is buying fewer than half the books it bought in 1984-85 The University library bought fewer than 36,000 books and single publications in 1989-90, against 81,000 in 1984-85, as its book budget lost ground to inflation. The Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 1990, p. 1
  112. A Panhellenic Council gift keeps Davis Library open an extra hour The Panhellenic Council gave the University libraries $1,000 in sorority rush fines, and the library used it to keep Davis Library open until midnight Monday through Thursday from Nov. 1, as budget cuts held 25 library positions open. The Daily Tar Heel, October 26, 1990, p. 3
  113. Black students begin protesting The Student Body statues outside Davis Library From October 23, 1990, the day The Student Body, statues given by the Class of 1985, were placed outside Davis Library, Black students objected to them as offensive stereotypes, and held study-ins, lone vigils, petitions and forums and met the chancellor. They asked that the statues be moved, for example to the Ackland Art Museum. Black Ink later dated the protests from October 22. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 10, 1990, p. 10 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1990, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1990, p. 1
  114. Chancellor Hardin decides to move The Student Body statues After months of protest by Black students, Chancellor Paul Hardin, recognizing that a large part of the student body took offense, decided to move The Student Body statues from in front of Davis Library to a less conspicuous site between Hamilton and Bynum halls. In March a Black Ink columnist asked why the statues had not yet been moved. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 28, 1991, p. 11
  115. The North Carolina Collection acquires a large private collection of Thomas Wolfe papers The North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library acquired what was described as the largest private collection of Thomas Wolfe papers and letters, bought from the widow of a Memphis collector who had been a friend of Fred Wolfe, the novelist's last surviving brother. St. Mary's College in Raleigh had given its own Wolfe materials to UNC in July 1990. The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1991, p. 3
  116. Vandals knock the basketball player from The Student Body statues The figure of a Black male student holding a basketball, part of Julia Balk's sculpture The Student Body outside Davis Library, was knocked off its base and the ball taken, on one of the first nights the statues were no longer under a 24-hour watch. Black Ink's editors, who reported the damage to police, condemned the vandalism while holding to their demand that the statues be moved. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 14, 1991, p. 7 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1991, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, January 24, 1991, p. 3
  117. The Class of 1991 pledges more than $355,000 for a Davis Library endowment In a phone campaign from February 17 to 19, 1991, seniors pledged more than $355,000, past their $350,000 goal, as the Class of 1991's gift: an endowment for undergraduate research materials and technology at Davis Library, paid at $200 each over five years. About half the class pledged, and the gift counted toward the University's bicentennial campaign. The Daily Tar Heel, February 21, 1991, p. 1
  118. Walter Royal Davis designates $490,000 for books for UNC's libraries Walter Royal Davis, for whom Davis Library is named and a former chairman of the trustees, designated $490,000 in accumulated earnings from two endowments he had set up to buy books, after four years of state budget cuts had eroded the library's purchasing. People: Walter Royal Davis The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1991, p. 3
  119. UNC's library board reports book purchases cut by more than half since 1985 A report by the library's administrative board for the Faculty Council said the University library had bought 36,364 books in the past year against 81,489 in 1984-85, and had drawn up a 10 percent periodicals cancellation list for the tenth time in ten years. Board chairman John Nadas warned that the library was very close to the point of no return. The Daily Tar Heel, February 18, 1992, p. 1
  120. The Triangle Research Libraries Network signs for new online catalog software The network signed a contract with Data Research Associates of St. Louis for software letting catalog users search other networks and see whether books were on the shelf, to be in use by the end of 1992. The Daily Tar Heel, April 3, 1992, p. 3
  121. World Association for Public Opinion Research places its archive at Wilson Library The World Association for Public Opinion Research placed its archive, with files from 1947, in the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library at the suggestion of its president-elect, UNC journalism professor Philip Meyer. People: Philip Meyer The Daily Tar Heel, May 21, 1992, p. 2
  122. UNC's library annual report shows its research rank falling to 48th The University Library's annual report, issued November 1, 1992, showed holdings barely growing in 1991-92 as serial prices rose. University Librarian James Govan said UNC's standing as a national research library had fallen from 10th to 48th in recent years, and the serials budget ($1,570,740) was nearly three times the book budget ($542,101). The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1992, p. 1
  123. UNC's Class of 1993 pledges $365,000 to the library endowment Senior class president Bob Paty announced on December 8, 1992, that the Class of 1993 would raise $365,000 over five years for the UNC Library Endowment Fund to buy books, periodicals and equipment, with more than $90,000 in matching money from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Daily Tar Heel reported it might be the largest senior class gift ever proposed at a U.S. university; the library had canceled more than 2,000 periodical subscriptions. The Daily Tar Heel, December 9, 1992, p. 1
  124. UNC's library receives a $220,000 NEH grant to preserve sound recordings The National Endowment for the Humanities grant was to copy about 2,800 decaying tapes and records, among them Sen. Sam Ervin's recollections, Gullah tales, Shirley Caesar gospel songs and Flatt and Scruggs bluegrass, onto preservation-quality tape. It paid for a sound engineer, an archival assistant and graduate students for two years. The Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1993, p. 3
  125. Black Women United returns with a reception honoring Black women on campus Black Women United, a group for Black women faculty, staff and students founded in 1978 and dormant since 1991, held a reception in the Wilson Library Assembly Room on October 29, 1993, honoring several Black women on campus. About 50 women attended; staff members Countess Hughes, Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, Monique Wiggins and Rosalind Fuse-Hall led the revival. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 1, 1993, p. 3
  126. UNC's Academic Affairs Library cancels 24 journals and buys single articles instead To save more than $24,000 a year, the library dropped 24 costly, little-used science and social science journals and began buying copies of articles through the CARL UnCover delivery service. The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 1994, p. 3
  127. William R. Davie's gold watch goes on display in the North Carolina Collection Gallery On February 13 UNC system President C. D. Spangler Jr., a collector of clocks and watches, unveiled in Wilson Library a gold Breguet watch that William Richardson Davie, called the father of the University, bought in 1800, as part of a Bicentennial exhibit; a Davie descendant had left it to the University in her will. It was shown with a collection of gold coins struck by the private Bechtler Mint in Rutherford County, a gift of Herman Bernard of High Point. People: C. D. Spangler Jr., William Richardson Davie The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1994, p. 3
  128. Davis Library opens its Electronic Information Service On August 24 UNC's Davis Library opened the Electronic Information Service, a staffed center on its main floor with ten work stations offering the public and the University free access to the Internet, CD-ROM databases and a scanner, and classes on finding information. The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1994, p. 3
  129. Filmmaker Ken Burns gives his documentary papers and tapes to UNC's Southern Historical Collection Ken Burns donated thousands of documents and video and audio tapes from his documentaries, among them "The Civil War," "The Shakers," "Huey Long" and "Baseball," to the Southern Historical Collection in the Academic Affairs Library's Manuscripts Department, including footage, project files and working papers. UNC had given him an honorary doctor of letters at its May 1994 commencement. The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1994, p. 3
  130. Randall Kenan returns to UNC as a visiting professor Kenan, who decided on a writing career in UNC English classes, came back to Chapel Hill in 1995 as a visiting professor, and read that February in the Second Sunday series at Wilson Library. The Daily Tar Heel, February 17, 1995, p. 1
  131. Andy Griffith gives his career memorabilia to Wilson Library Griffith donated his collection of career memorabilia, including a guitar, to the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library, the same year he was among the first three recipients of the Carolina Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels: Andy Griffith
  132. UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University University archivists mounted an exhibit on the enslaved and free Black people who built and served the early university, including cabinetmaker Thomas Day and poet George Moses Horton. People: George Moses Horton, Thomas Day UNC University Library: Slavery and the Making of the University: Celebrating Our Unsung Heroes, Bond and Free
  133. UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book The exhibit We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill introduced families who had shaped the area from the 1700s on. It was inspired by Pearce's 2009 history Rogers Road, which RENA presents as part of its History Project. UNC University Library: We're All Family Here, Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill
  134. Smithies and Sancar give replica Nobel medals to UNC At a Davis Library gathering, Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar presented gold-plated bronze replicas of their Nobel Prize medals to the university. Chancellor Carol Folt recounted that Sancar had led the search committee that brought Nobuyo Maeda and Smithies to UNC. People: Oliver Smithies, Carol L. Folt UNC School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics: UNC Nobel laureates Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar present medals to UNC
  135. John Blackfeather Jeffries gives his Occaneechi collection to UNC's Southern Historical Collection Jeffries gave the Wilson Library about 5,000 items, including photographs of Occaneechi powwows and of the replica village's construction in Hillsborough, recordings of Occaneechi, Saponi and Tutelo songs, and the band's petition for state acknowledgment of tribal status. UNC Libraries: John Hayles Blackfeather Jeffries Collection on Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, 1950-2017 (#05761), finding aid
  136. UNC Libraries endows the Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship An endowment from John Powell created a UNC University Libraries fellowship in Hall's name for graduate students researching the American South, with preference for projects using oral history sources. UNC University Libraries: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship honors pioneering scholar of the South

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