Fall 2009 Programs
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Wednesday, September 2 2009 from 4:00 to 6:00
A campus meet and greet reception featuring wine and cheese provided by Inbodens of Dekalb.
This is an invitation-only event.
"The John Deere Story: Building a Frontier Business"
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Did you know that John Deere never saw a tractor? In fact, he died thirty two years before the company's first production tractor was introduced. Join Neil Dahlstrom, co-author of The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere, as he provides insights into the first seventy years of John Deere. From the "invention" of the steel plow in 1837 to becoming the largest steel plow manufacturer in the world by 1900, see how John and Charles Deere, father and son, together built a thriving business on the edge of the frontier.
This event is free and open to the public.
"Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Underground Rail Road"
A lecture presented by Dr. Owen Muelder,
Director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Wednesday, November 11, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Owen Muelder, Director of the Director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College, will discuss the Underground Rail Road in Illinois and the Dekalb area.
This event is free and open to the public.
Spring 2009 Programs
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Date and Time TBA
This is an invitation-only event.
Book Appraisal Fair
Date TBA
11 am-2 pm
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Once again, appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of ;Thomas J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago Rare Book Center, who appeared on HGTV's Appraisal Fair program, and William Butts, of Main Street Fine Books, in Galena, IL. Mr. Butts, who has appeared on PBS's "History Detectives," has extensive experience with appraising ephemera and autographs.
Individual appraisals cost $10 per title.
Members of the Friends receive their first three appraisals for free, and subsequent appraisals at the discounted rate of $5 each.
We will gladly accept new Friends memberships on-site.
Please Join Us!
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Free parking in the Visitor's Lot and the Parking Garage is available beginning after 7:00 pm. Click here for a map of Founders Memorial Library and parking lots in the central NIU Campus area.
For more information, please call (815) 753-9838 or e-mail libraryfriend@niu.edu.
Click Here to see a listing of Past Programs (some articles and photos from past events are included)
Thank you for your generous support!
Last Updated: September 11, 2009