UCI Libraries to host reception launching ‘400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio’ exhibit

EVENT: UCI Libraries is hosting a reception to celebrate the opening of its newest exhibit, “400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio.” The event begins at the Irvine Barclay Theatre with a discussion between Derek Quezada, exhibit curator and rare-books librarian at the University of Southern California, and Eric Rasmussen, Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor […]

The “Americans and the Holocaust” traveling exhibition panel

UCI Libraries will host ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibition

Special events, secondary exhibit on the 1940s will complement the installation

Photo of leaders of C-CAP Teach programs

UCI Libraries receives $800,000 grant from Mellon Foundation

Initiative will train students to be stewards of their communities’ histories

Frederic Jameson

Fredric Jameson donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries

Collection details the scholar’s illustrious career in critical theory

UCI Libraries host exhibit on Korean ‘comfort women’

First filmed evidence of their existence is included in archival materials

School of Law founding dean donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries

Collection details Erwin Chemerinsky’s illustrious 40-year legal career

UCI Libraries to host talk, reception launching fall exhibit on dancer Donald McKayle

EVENT: The UCI Libraries will kick off its fall exhibit, “Donald McKayle: Dancing for All Time,” with an opening night presentation and reception. The exhibit highlights the life and legacy of the late Donald McKayle, named by the Library of Congress and the Dance Heritage Coalition as “one of America’s irreplaceable dance treasures.” The performer, […]

Founding professor of math donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries

Collection includes Edward Thorp’s work proving merits of card counting in blackjack

Institute of Museum & Library Services awards UCI Libraries $500,000 for ethnic studies project

The UCI Libraries have been awarded a prestigious Institute of Museum & Library Services grant of $500,000 to explore the outcomes of undergraduate students applying what they learn in ethnic studies combined with lived experience in contributing to community archives. The team, led by university archivist Audra Eagle Yun, head of Special Collections & Archives, will partner […]

Money exhibit at UCI Libraries

Oct. 5 opening event features talk by Catherine Eagleton, modern money curator at London’s British Museum.