The University Libraries offer a number of exhibits that are open to the public as well as to campus students, faculty and staff. Follow the links below for information on current displays:
In addition, various departments within the Libraries are actively engaged in creating Web-based exhibits and collections of digital texts and images. For a listing, see:
Exiles and Emigrants: Writings of the Irish Diaspora
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January 21 to July 18, 2008 102 Hesburgh Library, Open to the public
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The books in this exhibit, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, have one thing in common: They were written by Irish people who lived in other countries. They represent a number of groups of exiles, such as Franciscan priests in Europe or rebels who found a home in America in the nineteenth century. They also represent emigrants such as Captain Francis O’Neill, one of the greatest collectors of Irish music, who gave his personal library to this University. Others still worked for the British Crown, as military officers or, as in the case of Richard Robert Madden, as a colonial administrator.
The story of the Irish Diaspora is a vast and complex one — this exhibit touches on a few areas of that story.
This exhibit is curated by Aedin Clements, Irish Studies Librarian.
Inquiries regarding this exhibit or about scheduling a guided class or group tour of the exhibition should be directed to Ben Panciera, Rare Books Librarian and Curator for Special Collections, at (574) 631-6489.
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Unit of the Department of Special Collections has produced a number of exhibits featuring selections from major collections as well as several digital collections which aim to provide a comprehensive online catalog for specific holdings:
Online exhibits:The Edmund P. Joyce Sports Research Collection in the Department of Special Collections offers the following online exhibits:
The Medieval Institute Library has produced the following exhibits and digital collections of its holdings:
Online exhibits:
Digital Collections:
A new Byzantine Studies Library is being built around the recently-acquired collection of the late Milton V. Anastos. While the collection is being cataloged and housed, you are invited to take a brief "walking tour" through the history and culture of Byzantium.
Established in 1995 to support rare book acquisitions in the John A. Zahm Dante collection and to fund an annual lecture series and visiting professorship in Dante studies, the Devers Program is also a founding member of the international ItalNet Consortium, whose mission is to make available scholarly Internet resources of literary and historical materials relating to Italian studies. Selected digital projects produced by ItalNet include:
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