Library Calendar

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

    • 3:30 - 5:30 pm
    • The Urbana Free Library, 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

    The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center, The Urbana Free Library and Illinois International- Global Relations will have a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2024 National Welcoming week. The event will feature immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana talking about their home countries.

Monday, September 16, 2024

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Monday, September 23, 2024

  • Raffle prize: Custom Illinois tote, Illinois hat, Illinois stuffed squirrel, and library-printed squirrel pen holder.
    • All Day
    • Funk Library, Grainger Engineering Library, Main Library

    Attention Students! Explore Illinois’ AMAZING campus library system during the Library Crawl that will take you from the South Quad to the Engineering Quad.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

  • Raffle prize: Custom Illinois tote, Illinois hat, Illinois stuffed squirrel, and library-printed squirrel pen holder.
    • All Day
    • Funk Library, Grainger Engineering Library, Main Library

    Attention Students! Explore Illinois’ AMAZING campus library system during the Library Crawl that will take you from the South Quad to the Engineering Quad.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

  • Raffle prize: Custom Illinois tote, Illinois hat, Illinois stuffed squirrel, and library-printed squirrel pen holder.
    • All Day
    • Funk Library, Grainger Engineering Library, Main Library

    Attention Students! Explore Illinois’ AMAZING campus library system during the Library Crawl that will take you from the South Quad to the Engineering Quad.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024

  • Raffle prize: Custom Illinois tote, Illinois hat, Illinois stuffed squirrel, and library-printed squirrel pen holder.
    • All Day
    • Funk Library, Grainger Engineering Library, Main Library

    Attention Students! Explore Illinois’ AMAZING campus library system during the Library Crawl that will take you from the South Quad to the Engineering Quad.

  • Concert poster that includes information about the work, Voice of the Animals, composed by Scarlet Rivera. The work is described as a musical journey connecting forests, climate, and biodiversity.
    • 5:30 - 8:00 pm
    • Room 4029, Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

    The Music & Performing Arts Library will be hosting a pop-up library as part of the EcoEcho Concert for Climate and Biodiversity Action. Come join us for a free evening of livestream original music, local organizations, discussion, engagement, food, and fun!

Thursday, October 3, 2024

    • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Music & Performing Arts Library Reading Room (1st floor), 1114 W Nevada St

    Join us for an afternoon of music and insight in collaboration with the CU Folk & Roots Festival! Experience a captivating performance/lecture by Eddie Barbash + KASA & Friends, browse a curated display of folk and roots materials from the Music & Performing Arts Library's collections, and enjoy light refreshments.

Friday, October 4, 2024

    • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Player Piano room on the 2nd floor of the Music & Performing Arts Library (1300 Music Building, 1114 W Nevada St)

    Enjoy a free concert featuring the Music & Performing Arts Library’s Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano and learn more about the instrument and roll collection.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

    • 6:00 pm

    Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.

Friday, November 1, 2024

    • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Player Piano room on the 2nd floor of the Music & Performing Arts Library (1300 Music Building, 1114 W Nevada St)

    Enjoy a free concert featuring the Music & Performing Arts Library’s Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano and learn more about the instrument and roll collection.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Main Library Room 346

    Professor Bob Morrissey (Department of History) joins us to discuss the John Eliot Bible, published in 1664, and how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!

Thursday, December 12, 2024

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
    • Main Library Room 346

    Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and some of our favorite winter-themed materials from the RBML vault. Make a button, relax with a coloring sheet, and leave with a letterpress poetry card! This event is part of the library's biannual Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.