Visit UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library Tuesday evening for a rare tour of the normally off-limits archival stacks and a chance to view treasures held in the Southern Historical Collection, Southern Folklife Collection, and University Archives. Staff will guide visitors through shelves and boxes, stopping along the way for a glimpse of history, including letters penned by presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, poet Langston Hughes, and physicist Albert Einstein, as well some of the earliest records about the founding of UNC.

Tuesday, February 17

Reception at 5 p.m.; Tours begin at 5:45 p.m.

Wilson Library, 4th floorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Free and open to the public

Information: (919) 962-4207 or liza_terll@unc.edu

The "Open Stacks" program complements the exhibit Making Archives: An Inside Look at the Work to Preserve Southern Memory, on view in Wilson Library (4th floor) through Apr. 30, 2009. Exhibit information: (919) 962-1345.

Related Links

1. http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2009/archives.html
2. http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/on-display-at-unc-einsteins-autograph