“Queerolina” online exhibition presents oral histories of LGBTQIA+ Tar Heels
The site draws from the collaborative project The Story of Us: Documenting and Preserving LGBTQIA Carolina History.
Wilson Spotlight
Preserving Carolina’s treasured collections
Sam Huener, a conservation technician in the Conservation Lab, repairs a book at Wilson Library (Photo by Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel HIll
Sam Huener and the team at Wilson Library’s Conservation Lab are working to preserve the University’s most prized books and documents.
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2022-2023 Wilson Library Fellows Announced
2022-23 Wilson Fellowship Announcement
The Wilson Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 cohort of Wilson Library Fellows. We congratulate awardees for our established research awards: Southern Studies Doctoral Fellowships, Visiting Researcher Fellowships (formerly titled Summer Visiting Research Fellowships), and Rare Book …
$2 million from William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust will endow curatorship, fund fellowships at University Libraries
An exterior shot of Wilson Library
Endowment honors Sarah Graham Kenan, who provided the first major gift for the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library.
Collecting COVID: Documenting the Pandemic Experience at Carolina
In March 2020, staff of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began collecting documents, artifacts, websites, and audio-visual recordings that reflect the pandemic experience at UNC-Chapel Hill and in the surrounding community.
If these blocks could talk
The University Libraries’ 9 millionth “volume”—a collection of 900 woodcut printing blocks—has many stories to tell.
