Category Archives: News

Attention Students: Submit Your Essay to Win the 2016-2017 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Rare Books and Special Collections

Are you an avid collector of books, manuscripts, or other materials found in libraries? If so, consider submitting an essay about your collection for a chance to win the Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize! Endowed from the estate of … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Comments Off on Attention Students: Submit Your Essay to Win the 2016-2017 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize

Adler Prize Winner Receives 2016 National Collegiate Book Collection Contest Essay Award

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Rare Books and Special Collections

Congratulations to recent alum, Samantha Yosim (nee Flitter), Class of 2016, who became the first Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize winner to receive an award in the National Collegiate Book Collection Contest. Sponsored by The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Comments Off on Adler Prize Winner Receives 2016 National Collegiate Book Collection Contest Essay Award

New Publication: The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Rare Books and Special Collections

Minjie Chen, Project Cataloger for the East Asian collection of the Cotsen Children’s Library, just published her thesis The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature: Friends and Foes on the Battlefield with Routledge. Her book investigates how the history of the … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Nova Caesarea Awarded the Arline Custer Memorial Award

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Rare Books and Special Collections

In 2014, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the naming of New Jersey, RBSC published Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888 by curator of historic maps John Delaney. The work was a substantial updating of John … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Comments Off on Nova Caesarea Awarded the Arline Custer Memorial Award

Versailles on Paper: A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Rare Books and Special Collections

  Opening Lecture: Dr. Ian Thompson,author of The Sun King’s Garden and Reader in Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University, at 3:00 p.m. on 14 February 2015 in 101 McCormick Hall, sponsored by the Department of French & Italian and the Friends of … Continue reading →

Posted in Exhibitions & Events, News | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Versailles on Paper: A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV