Campus is a pretty quiet place during the summer, and the library is no exception. I mean it’s always a quiet place — it’s the library after all — but the schedule of lectures, panels, and other events are on hiatus.
You can, however, escape from the heat and check out a couple of summer exhibits that are happening.
“I Shall Never Be Able To Forget What I Saw”: A Brief History of Illinois Disasters From the Great Chicago Fire to the Cherry Mine Disaster
Learn how these disasters affected the citizens of Illinois. It’s on display at the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections at 1408 W. Gregory in Urbana.
Art + Books Summer Exhibition
From the event description:
This exhibition highlights creations by selected book artists and presses from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library collections: Loujon Press, Bea Nettles, Flying Fish Press, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr, Rusell Maret, and Jana Sim.
The works on display range from the 1960s to the present, and feature many variations on alphabets, typeface and calligraphy, colors and photography, and structures, from seemingly simple business cards, tarot cards, posters and broadsides, to complex codex, accordions, Möbius strips and Jacob’s ladders.
Check the UIUC LIbrary website for hours.
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