April 1, 2022
This National Library Week (April 3-9, 2022), show your love for your favorite Carolina branch library with an illustrated bookshelf sticker.
Graphic designer Nicole Basile, a member of the University Libraries’ communications team, created the bookshelves. She and Aleah Howell, who leads creative work for the team, were inspired by artist Jane Mount’s Ideal Bookshelf project.
Basile had already created stickers depicting the University Libraries’ iconic buildings: Wilson Special Collections Library, Davis Library, the Undergraduate Library and the Health Sciences Library. But how to represent libraries and collections that don’t have a dedicated facility?
“The building stickers had a lot of personality, and the bookshelves were an extension of that. Aleah and I thought we could use the books and bookshelves to capture the personality of each of library and tell the story of all they have to offer,” said Basile.
Creating the stickers was a collaborative effort. Subject experts identified titles to indicate the range of materials each library covers. Basile then whittled down the lists to create manageable and representative bookshelves. You can preview the designs below and follow links to information about each one in the Library’s online database
There are two ways to claim your favorite bookshelf:
- Stop by our National Library Week tabling event outside Davis Library on Monday, April 4 between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (Bonus: there will be cookies until supplies run out.)
- Visit your favorite branch library during National Library Week to pick up the sticker that represents it, or find the whole selection of stickers at the front desks in Davis Library and the Undergraduate Library.
Do you have a favorite? Tag us on social media: @UNCLibrary. Happy National Library Week!
The Kenan Science Library and Makerspace
Curated by Therese Triumph and Tricia Maloney
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics published by CRC Press
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert E. Radford, Harry E. Ahles and C. Ritchie Bell
- Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World by Rachel Swaby
- Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs + Makerspaces edited by Paulo Blikstein, Sylvia Libow Martinez, and Heather Allen Pang
- The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
- The World of Mathematics: A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics from A’h-mosé the Scribe to Albert Einstein presented with commentaries and notes by James R. Newman
- The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers by Mark Hatch
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
Learn more about the Kenan Science Library
The Media and Design Center
Curated by Katelyn Ander and Winifred Metz
- The Only Good Indians (Audiobook) by Stephen Graham Jones
- Like Water For Chocolate (Novel to film adaptation) by Laura Esquivel
- The Maltese Falcon (Novel to film adaptation) by Dashiell Hammet
- Crazy Rich Asians (Novel to film adaptation) by Kevin Kwan
- Mexican Gothic (Audiobook) by Silvia Morena-Garcia
- Persepolis (Novel to film adaptation) by Marjane Satrapi
- The Namesake (Novel to film adaptation) by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Schindler’s List (Novel to film adaptation) by Thomas Keneally
- Becoming (Audiobook) by Michelle Obama
- The Hate U Give (Novel to film adaptation) by Angie Thomas
- Red, White & Royal Blue (Audiobook) by Casey McQuiston
- The Princess Bride (Novel to film adaptation) by William Goldman
- Caste (Audiobook) by Isabel Wilkerson
Learn more about the Media and Design Center
Music Library
Curated by Phillip Vandermeer and Diane Steinhaus
- The Grass is Blue by Dolly Parton
- Beethoven 2nd Edition by Maynard Solomon
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back by Public Enemy
- Neue Zeitschrift Fur Musik by Robert Schumann
- Necessary Noise: music, film, and charitable imperialism in the east of Congo by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
- Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People by Anthony Seeger
- A Tale of God’s Will: (A Requiem for Katrina) by Terence Blanchard
- Mountains Come Out of The Sky: An Illustrated History of Prog Rock by Will Romano
- The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown
- The Directory of Classical Themes by Denys Parsons
Learn more about the Music Library
SILS Library
Curated by Kenny Jones and Rebecca Vargha
- One Million Men and Me by Kelly Starling Lyons
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. And John Archambault
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Qualitative Research in Information Management edited by Jack D. Glazier and Ronald R. Powell
- The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad with S. K. Ali
- Introduction to Cataloging and Classification by Arlene G. Taylor
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
- You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
- Popville by Anouck Boisrobert & Louis Rigaud
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Learn more about the SILS Library
The Sloane Art Library
Curated by Josh Hockensmith, Sasha Deyneka, Kayla Olsen, and Annie Fisher
- Electronic Superhighway edited by Omar Kholeif
- Black Mountain edited by Eugen Blume, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein, and Catherine Nichols
- Sun Gardens: Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins
- Buddhism Illuminated by San San May & Jana Igunma
- What Is? By Johanna Drucker
- Hippie Modernism by Andrew Blauvelt
- Bright Earth by Philip Ball
- Freedom of the Presses edited by Marshall Weber
- Diamond Leaves edited by Xu Bing
- How Art Can Be Thought by Allan DeSouza
- Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
- A Touch Of Code edited by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, Verena Hanschke; preface by Joachim Sauter; introduction and text by Lukas Feireiss
Learn more about the Sloane Art Library
Stone Center Library
Curated by Gregg Moore
- Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by Bell Hooks
- A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shephard
- Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry edited and introduction by Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- Time on Two Crosses The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
- Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Darién J. Davis
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad
