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• Ackland Art Museum
• Carolina Performing Arts
• Carolina Women's Center
• College of Arts and Sciences
• FedEx Global Education Center
• Friends of the Library
• Kenan-Flagler Business School
• Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center - Beach Ball
• Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
• North Carolina Botanical Garden
• PlayMakers Repertory Company
• School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• School of Public Health
• School of Social Work
• The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Friends of the Library

All library events are free and open to the public. Parking is available in most campus lots starting at 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.lib.unc.edu/fol or contact Liza Terll at (919) 962-4207 or liza_terll@unc.edu.

Thursday, Feb. 28
5 p.m. Reception, Main Lobby, Wilson Library
5:45 p.m. Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
What Are These Graphic Novels I’ve Been Hearing So Much About?

In recent year, graphic novels have shown up in the news, on best-seller lists, and in more stores, libraries, and bookstores than ever before. Andrew Neal, owner of Chapel Hill Comics, will discuss the history of graphic novels, and will show examples of graphic novels for all ages.

Monday, March 17, 5:45 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room (2nd [main] floor) Wilson Library
Paper Trail: The Poster Art of Casey Burns and Ron Liberti

The Southern Folklife Collection in Wilson Library hosts this program in connection with its exhibit of the work of two local artists, Casey Burns and Ron Liberti, whose work has illustrated and advertised Chapel Hill/Carrboro's independent rock scene since the early 90s, developing a unique style and receiving international attention. (The exhibit will open in the Manuscripts Department in Wilson Library, 4th floor, the same day, and will be on view through May 31, 2008.)

Thursday, March 27 – Saturday, March 29
Book Sale

Thursday, 3/27, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Friends Members Only Preview Sale
Friday, 3/28, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.: Open to the Public
Saturday, 3/29, 9 a.mm - Noon: Bag Day Sale, all books $3/bag.

Held in the American Legion Building in Chapel Hill. Books for sale that have been donated to the Library, but are books the Library does not collect, or are duplicates. Thousands of books in all categories. Proceeds benefit the University Library Endowment.

Thursday, April 17, 5:45 p.m.
John Branch
2008 Gladys Hall Coates University History Lecture--Student Cartooning at UNC

John Branch, cartoonist with the San Antonio Express-News and former cartoonist with the Daily Tar Heel and Chapel Hill News, will give a lecture in connection with the North Carolina Collection Gallery's exhibit in Wilson Library, Lines of Humor, Shades of Controversy: A Century of Student Cartooning at UNC. (Lines of Humor opened Feb. 13 and will be on view through May 31, 2008.)

Held in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room (2nd [main] floor) Wilson Library.

Wednesday, April 23, 5:45 p.m.
The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetics, 1952-1975

Panel discussion in conjunction with "The Beats and Beyond," an exhibit that takes advantage of the depth and breadth of the Rare Book Collection's world-class holdings in post-World War II American poetry, including poets of the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and North Carolina's own Black Mountain College.

Held in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room (2nd [main] floor) Wilson Library.