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Tag: Wilson Special Collections Library
University Libraries Receives $1.75 Million Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The largest grant in University Libraries history will allow the Southern Folklife Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library to preserve and digitize rare audio and visual recordings from Carolina’s libraries and from six partners across the state.
The South’s Time Capsule
Cherokee language resources. Dean Smith’s personal papers. A first-person account of an enslaved woman. The millions of artifacts and documents at the Carolina’s libraries have supported researchers and helped make the University a hub for the study of the American South. Read more from Endeavors.
Grant to Libraries Will Provide Access to Rare Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Dramas
The Pine Tree Foundation of New York has provided $12,100 for cataloging and digitization work. Many of the items are extremely rare.
Learning from Frankenstein’s monster
A collaboration between librarians and an instructor gave students in English 295H a research experience like no other. The class curated the Wilson Library exhibition, “Reconstructing Frankenstein’s Monster: Mary Shelley’s World in Print,” on view through August 26.
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