Description:

The Mellon Cataloging Project and Five Centuries of Book Ownership. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; June 15 through Aug. 14. With generous support from the Mellon Foundation, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has undertaken a large retrospective conversion and cataloging project that has dramatically improved access to its extraordinary collections. It is bringing the Hidden Collections at the University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library to light, making previously inaccessible books available to students and scholars around the world. This exhibition highlights some of the more remarkable ownership associations discovered during the course of the Mellon Cataloging Project. The scope of the exhibition spans five centuries and includes such luminaries as Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury; Reformation leader Philipp Melanchthon; the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Harley, Lord Oxford; Narcissus Luttrell, diarist and book collector; William Lambarde, early modern antiquarian; William Herle, Elizabethan political agent; the Romantic poet Robert Southey; and three of the most eminent English bibliographers of the 20th century.

For more information:

Call 333-3777, or visit http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/Exhibitions_and_Events.html#melon

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