by Staff | Dec 6, 2022 | News
Collecting things is an essential part of the human experience. Whether one collects Japanese watercolors or cigar boxes, Roman coins or coffee mugs, rare books, or baseball cards, one’s sense of self-awareness is increased by placing one’s own endeavors...
by Staff | Oct 14, 2022 | News
The Oregon Poetry Association held their annual meeting on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at which time two poetry prizes were awarded at the 2022 UO Library Undergraduate Poetry Prize Winners event. The following comments were made by the co-founders of the Poetry Prize....
by Staff | Oct 14, 2022 | News
Most ephemera do not stay around for very long. You might enjoy such ephemera as sunsets and rainbows, things appearing only briefly, and so enjoyed even more. In Latin, ephemera was a word for a fever that didn’t last long. Today, ephemera is the plural form of...
by Staff | Oct 11, 2022 | News
About the Book Collecting Prize The bi-annual Book Collecting Prize is established in partnership with the Himes & Duniway Society, who has generously donated prize funds, to recognize and encourage undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Oregon...
by Staff | Sep 20, 2022 | News, Rare Books
A new acquisition to the special collections is Antoninus Florentius, Confessionale and other texts, written in 1462. This manuscript has works in both Latin and Italian, is from Northern Italy, and is written on paper. It is written in brown ink and has evidence of...
