Library Calendar

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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

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

  • 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.

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

    RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. Opening reception will feature remarks by Brooks’s daughter, Nora Brooks Blakely. Exhibit will be on display through May 2025.

    • 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    • Main Library Orange Room

    Attention students: Stop by the Orange Room of the Main Library on Thursday, 9/26 at 7-9 pm to make a custom button with the library's button press. Free! Snacks provided.

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!