Rare Books and Special Collections: Calendar
2009 Events Calendar
JANUARY
Please Note: January 15 Lecture postponed until March 5th
RBSC Exhibit: Other Worlds: Fairy, Faerie, and Fey
FEBRUARY
Faculty Wine Tasting
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Thursday, February 26th from 4:00 to 6:00
A campus meet and greet reception featuring wines by Rouge Cellars, Creston,
IL.
This is an invitation-only event
sponsored by the
Friends
of the NIU Libraries
MARCH
"Picturing Hemingway"
A lecture presented by by Redd Griffin,
a founding director and past chair of
the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:30 pm
Rare Books and Special Collections
Founders Memorial Library 402A
This talk is in conjunction with the "Picturing Hemingway" traveling
exhibit, developed by the Ernest Hemingway foundation and the
Smithsonian
Institution's National Portrait Gallery, on display on the first floor
of
Founders' Memorial Library through the end of January.
This event, sponsored by the Friends
of the NIU Libraries, is free and open to the public.
APRIL
MAY
Book Appraisal Fair
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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.
Sponsored by the Friends
of the NIU Libraries .
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