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Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (8 February) at 4 pm EST for our next After Hours virtual open house of the term celebrating the launch of Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin’s book, In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC. In writing this book, the authors drew heavily upon materials that are now part of the Labadie Collection.

We are excited to continue our online After Hours open houses this semester! Join the Special Collections Research Center on the second Tuesday of each month 4-5 pm for a virtual encounter with our collections. While all the events are online, we have offered an in-person option for the first session in the series. All are welcome to beam in and join us.

Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (14 December) at 4 pm EST for our final After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring materials from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection relating to prison abolition, prisoner support, and political prisoners.

Join us online this Thursday 18 November at 7 pm EST for a virtual walk through a selection of artists' books preserved in the Special Collections Research Center!

Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (9 November) at 4 pm EDT for our third After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring a selection of manuscripts containing the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam!

Join us online next Thursday, 14 October at 11 am EDT for the next event in the series Virtual Encounters in Book History -- "Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print: Masculine Intimacy, Feminine Historical Consciousness, and Ephemerality in Commodity Culture"

Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (12 October) at 4 pm EDT for our second After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring the films of Robert Altman!

The university fire marshal was polite but firm. We really could not continue to store highly flammable film in the Special Collections stacks. What to do? In 2019 we had a solution to these problems that wasn’t available in 1988, when the collection came to us: digitization! Hear more at our virtual After Hours event tomorrow, Tuesday 14 September 4-5 pm.

We are excited to continue our online After Hours open houses this semester! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month 4-5 pm for a virtual encounter with our collections.

Join us next Tuesday (13 April) at 4 pm EDT for our last After Hours virtual open house of the term. This month we'll explore a selection of iconic Arabic texts from the holdings of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection as part of the campus celebration of Arab Heritage Month