Newberry Library Gallery Hours
Monday, Friday, Saturday
8:15 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
8:15 am - 7:30 pm
The Library is closed on Sundays.
All exhibits at the Newberry Library are free.
For information about exhibits, call (312) 255-3691.
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| Torres-Garcia, La Tradicion del Hombre Abstracto |
March 15 - May 3
Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery
Viewing new acquisitions, such as those in this exhibition, is like opening holiday presents. Every year the Newberry adds to its holdings materials such as the medieval liturgical manuscripts, printed books of the Renaissance, colonial Americana, Latin American fine press volumes, and the contemporary calligraphic pieces you see displayed. They span 800 years, the earliest items being from the thirteenth century, the most recent, twenty-first century. How does the Newberry Library acquire these remarkable things? Some are purchased, many are gifts. Some are even "time shares" thanks to an innovative Joint Acquisitions Program through which seven Midwestern institutions pool resources. Without generations of generous donors dating back to the Library's founding benefactor, Walter L. Newberry (1804-1868), none of these treasures would have come to the Newberry Library, where anyone 16 or older may consult them.
Saturday, March 15, 1:30 pm
Speaker: Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library
Why was the Union Army's 7th Iowa called the "Grey Beard Regiment"? How can you recreate a dance from the Court of Louis XIV? Why would the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies partner with the Newberry Library to acquire a book written by a Franciscan friar in the middle ages? How did a collection of colorful Pennsylvania baptismal records end up in Germany? The George A. Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Collection Development Librarian answers these and other questions in an illustrated overview of the Newberry Library's acquisitions since 2001.
At 2 pm on the following Saturdays, tours of the Newberry Recent Acquisitions exhibit will be presented by the curators, librarians, and archivists who build the collections:
March 22: Jack Simpson, Curator of Local and Family History
March 29: Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Midwest Manuscripts
April 19: Paul F. Gehl, Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing
April 26: John Brady, Director of Reader Services - Bibliographer of Americana
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
R. R. Donnelley Gallery
Our Spotlight Exhibit Series introduces visitors to the Newberry's collections through small displays that explore a wide range of humanities topics using rare books, original manuscripts, maps, and archival materials. The Spotlight Exhibit Series marks historic anniversaries, civic occasions, commemorative months, public programs at the Library, or recent additions to the Library's collections. Displays change throughout the year. We invite you to visit the Library to view our current features beginning in March.
Please check the Newberry Library's web site, www.newberry.org , to confirm topics and schedules once they become available.
The Spotlight Exhibit Series is supported in part by the Rosalind Cohn Exhibit Fund.
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| Rosemont Collection |
Thursday, May 1, 6 pm
Speaker: David Roediger, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Followed by a conversation with Penelope and Franklin Rosemont, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company
Can you imagine any better way to spend May Day than with the Industrial Workers of the World, the storied radical labor organization founded in Chicago in 1905? The Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera, 1905-2005, a treasure trove of Wobbly literature, records, and ephemera acquired by the Newberry in 2006, is open for research. Historian David Roediger will revisit the IWW's legacy and then discuss with the Rosemonts the remarkable stories of how they assembled the collection over four decades.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
The Newberry Library
Center for Public Programs
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
telephone: (312) 255-3700
fax: (312) 255-3680
e-mail: programs@newberry.org