Library Calendar

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.

Attention Students! Explore Illinois’ AMAZING campus library system during the annual Library Crawl. Visit all four participating library locations anytime during open hours the week of 9/21-9/25 to get a passport stamp, information about the library and services, and a snack or library swag (while supplies last).

Need to register to vote, update your registration, or have questions about voter registration or voting in general? Stop by the Main Library and talk with volunteers from the League of Women Voters. Get nonpartisan voter registration information and assistance. No appointment needed, just drop by!

Need to register to vote, update your registration, or have questions about voter registration or voting in general? Stop by the Main Library and talk with volunteers from the League of Women Voters. Get nonpartisan voter registration information and assistance. No appointment needed, just drop by!

Please join us for an opening reception to celebrate the acquisition of the first edition of Frankenstein and explore the life and career of Mary Shelley. Exhibit curator Lynne Thomas will give brief remarks, and refreshments will be served.

"One Big Hapa Family" is Jeff Chiba Stearn's journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married inter-racially after his grandparents' generation. The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and Jason Finkelman (School of Music), and a book signing.

The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois!

The Youth Literature Festival is a free, family-friendly celebration of reading, storytelling, and creativity hosted by the University of Illinois College of Education.

For more than two decades, Emmy-nominated and award-winning animation and documentary director, author, and illustrator Jeff Chiba Stearns has used visual storytelling to explore the intersections of Japanese Canadian history, mixed-race identity, family, and culture. Jeff will reflect on using animation, illustration, comics, and film to make history accessible.

Need to register to vote, update your registration, or have questions about voter registration or voting in general? Stop by the Main Library and talk with volunteers from the League of Women Voters. Get nonpartisan voter registration information and assistance. No appointment needed, just drop by!

Join us for our Homecoming edition of Ultimate Archives Trivia and discover how much you know about the history, traditions, people, and innovations that make the University of Illinois unique.

Join us for a screening of The Librarians. Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Emily Knox, interim Dean of the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), followed by a live audience Q&A.

The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois!

Kelli Trei (B.S. Microbiology, 1999, and MLIS, 2012), Associate Professor and Biosciences Librarian, University of Illinois Library, will discuss her background in microbiology and work as liaison to the Schools of Life Sciences: Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB) and Integrative Biology, (IB) as well as to the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

October is LGBTQ History Month! The University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Pride Alumni Network co-present this LGBTQ History Month webinar during the week of Champaign-Urbana Pride Fest 2026. Join us for a webinar that will look back on 50 years of community, culture, and activism, both on campus and in the local community.

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.

Mary Caruso Dailey (PhD Chemistry, 2010), Lead Product Development Specialist at 3M will discuss her research on adhesives for electronics bonding and experiences as a graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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.

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.