{"id":8265,"date":"2023-01-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:53:45","slug":"welcome-back-spring-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/welcome-back-spring-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Spring 2023 in Rare Books &amp; Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"upcoming-events-january-and-early-february\">Upcoming Events: January<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us for the following event being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, January 26 at 5:00pm<\/strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;Italian Research Seminar: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/news-events\/events\/2023\/01\/26\/italian-research-seminar-rino-modonutti-padova\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The &#8216;Literary Canon&#8217; of Early Venetian Humanism (1374-1446) between the Classics and the Moderns\n&#8220;<\/a> by Rino Modonutti (University of Padova). <em>Sponsored by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/italianstudies.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Center for Italian Studies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"spring-semester-exhibits\">Spring Semester Exhibits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spring exhibit <strong>Printing the Nation: A Century of Irish Book Arts<\/strong> will feature selected books from the Hesburgh Libraries\u2019 Special Collections to demonstrate the art and craft of the Irish book since 1900. The exhibit, curated by Aed\u00edn N\u00ed Bhr\u00f3ithe Clements, will open in January and run through the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current spotlight exhibits for are <strong>Hesburgh Library Special Collections: A Focus on W.\u00a0B.\u00a0Yeats<\/strong> (November 2022 \u2013 January 2023) and <strong><em>The Ladies Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals<\/em><\/strong> (December 2022 \u2013 January 2023). Later in the month, we will be installing the spring semester spotlight, which will explore changes in language within select Middle English manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th through 17th century (January \u2013\u00a0April 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"classes-in-special-collections\">Classes in Special Collections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the semester, curators teach sessions related to our holdings. If you\u2019re interested in bringing your class or group to work with our curators and materials, please&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=rarebook@nd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">contact Special Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"recent-acquisitions\"><strong>Recent Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special Collections acquires new material throughout the year. Watch our blog for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/tag\/recent-acquisitions\/\">announcements about recent acquisitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Events: January Please join us for the following event being hosted in Rare Books and Special Collections: Thursday, January 26 at 5:00pm&nbsp;|&nbsp;Italian Research Seminar: &#8220;The &#8216;Literary Canon&#8217; of Early Venetian Humanism (1374-1446) between the Classics and the Moderns &#8220; by Rino Modonutti (University of Padova). Sponsored by&nbsp;the Center for Italian Studies. Spring Semester Exhibits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/welcome-back-spring-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to Spring 2023 in Rare Books &amp; Special Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5065,75050,77971,75053,75058,75060,12646],"tags":[77938,75749,5072],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-instruction-and-class-visits","category-irish-studies","category-italian-literature","category-medieval-renaissance","category-miscellaneous","tag-book","tag-recent-acquisitions","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}