Our gallery will open on January 2nd!

Now open in our gallery and online! A Pressing Call: Five Centuries of Women Printing features the work of women who led #PrintingHouses in the 16th century, such as Charlotte Guillard, Yolande Bonhomme and Katherine Gerlach and more. shorturl.at/6TsGa

Happy first day of #Winter Quarter! Pictured a class of female metalworking students in an undated photograph.

🛑 Our reading room will be closed for maintenance tomorrow, Monday, January 13th. We will re-open on Tuesday the 14th. We apologize for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: We will be closed through the 14th for emergency maintenance: lib.uchicago.edu/alerts/regenst…. Please stay tuned for further updates.

Our emergency maintenance efforts continue, so unfortunately we will also be closed Wednesday, January 15th.

Hooray! Our reading room will re-open on Friday, but remain closed on Thursday. Please contact us if you have questions: lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/visiting/…

Students engaging with SCRC exhibit display at #RegFest 2025

The keynote speaker for The University of Chicago's 35th Annual Commemoration Celebration of Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr is #RubyBridges: the first Black child to desegregate her elementary school… lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/rub…

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave three ‘glorious’ speeches on campus between 1956 and 1966.

This month's free e-book, courtesy of our colleagues at the University of Chicago Press (UChicagoPress) is Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt. press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEboo…

Carter G. Woodson (AB’07, AM’08), the Father of Negro History, championed the idea and formation of Negro History Week (inaugurated in 1926) that, in 1976, ultimately became Black History Month. This year marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Read about one of our newest and oldest acquisitions: An eighth-century Buddhist pagoda and mantra. lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/a-n…

Applications for the 2025 Platzman Memorial Fellowships close at the end of the month! lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/app…

Hurry! Applications for the Platzman Memorial Fellowship are due on Friday!

You are cordially invited to a special event, Reflecting on the Muṣhaf: An Exploration of Qur’anic Manuscripts✨ Saturday, April 12th, 2025, 10:30AM-12:30PM This session will be presented by Evyn Kropf in Special Collections. Register here: seldoninstitute.org/bookseminar

April marks the launch of the Kim-Park Program for the Study of the Book. Made possible by a gift from the parents of an alum, the program supports cross-disciplinary research/teaching related to the study of the transmission/materiality of texts. Events: shorturl.at/wKXJ1

Join the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) for a special free webinar on Friday, April 25, 1 PM ET, featuring award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Jill Egan, leader of DPLA’s Curation Corps and curator of the Banned Book Club shorturl.at/RGXIN

Come to the SCRC gallery and hang out with some giant #alebrijes in “Seeing Connections: The Art of Richard Penn”! Open now through August 29.

Join us on Tuesday, May 6 for two short documentary films, both with local connections—“Ida B. Wells: Words Unbound,” + “Red Summers: 1919—Chicago & Elaine.” Content warning for violence, including lynchings. Viewer discretion is advised. Register here: shorturl.at/FFzM7