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The Friends of NIU Libraries is sponsoring its annual Book Appraisal Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. Appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of Thomas J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago Rare Book Center,...
Sandra Trudgen Dawson, a faculty member in the NIU Department of History, has a written a new book about holiday camps in 20th-century Britain. Dawson will deliver a talk on the book – titled “Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure” (University of Manchester Press and Palgrave MacMillan) – at 3 p.m. Friday, April 29,...
The Friends of NIU Libraries is sponsoring its annual Book Appraisal Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. Appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of Thomas J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago Rare Book Center,...
Beginning this month, every new book published by Northern Illinois University (NIU) Press will be sold as an e-book as well as a traditional printed book. NIU Press e-books are available through Amazon’s Kindle Store and Barnes & Noble’s NOOKbook Store. The Press hopes to partner with Google Editions in the coming months. “Although we...
NIU’s Campus Child Care Center will hold its annual Children’s Book Fair during the week of Nov. 8. The fair will be open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, through Thursday, Nov. 11, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12. Come and browse through this wide selection with multiple copies of...
