NOTE: The Library is closed on Sundays, and its reading rooms are closed on Mondays as well.
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| The Newberry Library Summer Reading Salute | Genealogy and Local History Orientation | |||||
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| Library closed for Labor Day |
Wednesday Club: The Beatles in Contemporary Pop Culture |
Chicago History: I&M Canal Web Exhibit |
Genealogy and Local History Orientation |
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History Meet the Author: Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln |
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Reading Rooms closed Geographical Society of Chicago: Harm J. de Blij, Why Geography Matters |
Fall Seminars Begin |
Book Arts Meet the Author: Antonia Contro, Closed/Open |
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Literature Shakespeare Project: 50 Minute Macbeth Literature: Banned Book Read Out, Pioneer Plaza at Michigan Ave and the Chicago River |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Lyric Opera Lecture: La Bohème |
Wednesday Club: The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Genealogy and Local History Orientation |
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| Music: The Newberry Consort | Reading Rooms closed | Genealogy: Homicide in Chicago |
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Literature Meet the Author: Reading Rooms closed |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Lyric Opera Lecture: Julius Caesar |
Literature Shakespeare Project: Henry VI |
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| Maps exhibit opens (at The Field Museum) |
Genealogy and Local History Orientation Cartography: Michael Conzen, Making Mapping Manifest Destiny Cartography Panel: Maps-related lecture at The Field Museum: |
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| Chicago Humanities Festival, The Climate of Concern |
Reading Rooms closed | Wednesday Club: The Dark Side of the Universe |
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography |
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography |
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Cartography: Chicago Map Society |
Maps-related lecture at The Field Museum: Bringing Maps to Chicago |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Lyric Opera Lecture: Die Frau ohne Schatten |
Library closed for Thanksgiving |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Music: The Newberry Consort |
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| Music: The Newberry Consort | Reading Rooms closed |
Lyric Opera Lecture: Dr. Atomic |
Wednesday Club: Changing Cookbooks |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Cartography: Chicago Map Society |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Exhibitions open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Reading Rooms closed | |||||
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| Library closed | Library closed | Exhibitions open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Reading Rooms closed |
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Registration for Winter/Spring 2008 Seminars begins |
Genealogy and Local History Orientation | ||||
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| Reading Rooms closed | Wednesday Club: Orson Welles: Tragic Genius of Stage and Film |
Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Ricardo Padrón, The Spacious Word |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Literature Meet the Author: Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book |
Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Ruth Watson, The Art of Mapping the Heart |
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Reading Rooms closed | Lyric Opera Lecture: Falstaff |
Literature: Winter: A Time of Telling |
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Literature: Troubadour Poems from Southern France |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Dance: The Dance COLEctive’s Written on the Body |
Genealogy: Lithuanians in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle |
Music: The Newberry Consort | Music: The Newberry Consort |
Literature: Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Exhibit lecture: Diane Dillon, Picturing Common Ground: Mapmakers and Artists in the Nineteenth-Century American West Exhibits: Mapping Manifest Destiny and Ptolemy's Geography close
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Wednesday Club: Irish Fairy Tales and Magic |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Associates Appreciation Night | Literature: Mystery and More Book Fair |
Literature: Mystery and More Book Fair History Meet the Author: Donald B. Smith, Exhibit lecture: Paul Saenger, Amassing Treasures: Building the Newberry's Collections |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Literature Meet the Author: Scott Simon, Windy City |
Dance: The Seldoms’ Monument |
History Meet the Author: Louise Knight, Citizen |
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| Reading Rooms closed | Wednesday Club: British and American Elections in Perspective |
Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions gallery walk |
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Poetry: Parisi & Welton, 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women |
Music: The Newberry Consort |
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| Music: The Newberry Consort |
History: John Maxwell Hamilton and Richard C. |
Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions gallery walk |
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| Exhibit: Chicago Calligraphy Collective's exhibition opens |
Genealogy workshop: Railroad Ancestors |
Genealogy workshop: Railroad Ancestors |
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| History: Frank Biletz, Victoria's Britian | History Meet the Author: Inspired by Nature | |||||
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| Literature: Todd Bauer, All Chicago's a Stage | ||||||
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| Exhibit: Chicago Calligraphy Collective's exhibition closes |
Genealogy and Local History Orientation History Meet the Author: Sally Kitt Chappell, Chicago's Urban Nature |
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| Associates Book Fair Preview Night |
Newberry Book Fair |
Newberry Book Fair |
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| Newberry Book Fair |