Library Calendar
Monday, August 17, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Friday, August 21, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Saturday, August 22, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Sunday, August 23, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Monday, August 24, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Friday, August 28, 2026
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250 Years of Documenting Democracy
RecurringExplore 250 Years of Documenting Democracy, a three-part exhibit presented by Government Information Services in the Main Library, with displays in Room 220, the Library Gallery, and the cases near the Main Stacks entrance.
Thursday, September 17, 2026
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Join Lynne M. Thomas, Ruthann Mowry, and Quinn Ferris, for a roundtable discussion of the historical context, acquisition and intensive conservation process for Sir Isaac Newton’s manuscript translation of an alchemical text, Opus Galli anonymi, (ca. 1650), held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
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Exhibit Opening — “I could people the hours with creations”: Celebrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Please join us in the RBML from 3-5 pm on Thursday, September 24, for the opening reception of our new exhibit. Curator Lynne Thomas will present brief remarks, and refreshments will be served. This exhibit will remain on display through summer 2027.
Saturday, September 26, 2026
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The Youth Literature Festival is a free, family-friendly celebration of reading, storytelling, and creativity hosted by the University of Illinois College of Education.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
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This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.
Thursday, December 10, 2026
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Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and relaxing RBML-themed activities. Make a button, fill in a coloring sheet, collaborate on a big puzzle, and snag a fresh print of our annual holiday linocut card! This event is part of the library's Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
