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Join the RBML and Skeuomorph Press on Thursday, Dec. 8 3-5pm for a print crawl! Both locations will be printing and offering refreshments, and the RBML will also offer coloring and button-making. Come join us!

New acquisition! Can you find all the plays quoted? Early 19th c. British broadside to rally nationalist sentiment during the Napoleonic wars. (French curator declines to comment.)

Tomorrow, 3-5pm -- come for the print crawl, get inked! We'll have (temporary) tattoos to match your card. Fresh air, fresh fun and refreshments for Reading Day, it's what the printers ordered.

Come to our Print Crawl this afternoon from 3-5pm! You can print holiday cards and enjoy refreshments at the RBML and Skeuomorph Press at the FabLab, and make buttons and put on temporary tattoos at the RBML. Come get inked with us!

Temporary tattoos, printing, coloring, AND a print queue! We are having a fantastic time with @skeuomorphpress 📚 #specialcollections #rarebooks #printing #temporarytattoo #coloring instagram.com/p/Cl7GrulJ7db/…

It's the 100th anniversary of the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Our copies include the 1922 New York Boni and Liveright second ed (811 El4w), the 1923 Hogarth Press ed (811 Eℓ4w1923), and the 2007 Arion Press ed (SFFP Q. 811 El4w2007).

The “William Allingham Papers, 1846-1920” has been added to UIUC Library’s Digital Collections! The collection houses Allingham’s personal correspondence & features many important 19th c. artistic and literary figures! digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/38…

Please help us identify the author of this letter and postcard! Both samples are from the RBML’s William Allingham Papers, with correspondence from artistic and literary figures in the 19th century. Please comment or email us at [email protected]

☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild

Our first public event of the term will be February 14 from 3-5 in the RBML. Join us for activities and snacks! <3

Kudos to curator Caroline Szylowicz for her interview regarding RBML's collection of Proust correspondence in Lire Magazine!

Reminder to join us for our Valentine's event next Tuesday Feb 14 3-5pm. We'll have a small display, activities, and refreshments!

BE RBML'S VALENTINE! Reminder about our Valentine's open house tomorrow afternoon 3-5pm. Join us for snacks, valentines, button-making, and admire a small selective of volumes on display in the RBML!

We are setting up for our Valentine's event! Come to the RBML to make buttons and valentines, color images from materials in our collections, and see a fabulous display of items! 3-5pm today, and snacks will be served! 💕 #beourvalentine

RBML will be closed to the public on Monday 2/20 and Tuesday 2/21 due to unforeseen staffing issues. We thank you in advance for your patience during this time.

The RBML will be co-hosting a youth poetry workshop on March 30th at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. Join us if you have a young person in your life (grades 5-8) who might benefit from this opportunity — and register them asap if interested!

***Save the date! *** (and watch your back...) Friday April 21, 3-5pm Shakespeare's First Folio is turning 400! Come celebrate: discover RBML treasures, dare to recite a few lines, and “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” Refreshments and goodies will be on hand.

Super excited about this new acquisition: A set of 18th c. pamphlets by authors of both genders around "the woman question" pertaining to the rights and social status of widows.

There is still time left up to sign students up for the Young Poets workshop next week. This will be a free event!