Join us for the most popular used-book binge in Chicago. In addition to your favorite prestige and pulp fiction, this year’s Newberry Book Fair includes 160,000 books in some 70 other categories, from cookbooks and children’s literature to history and political science.
Freely available under the Newberry’s open access policy, a new digital archive of 26,000 postcards from early 20th-century Britain offers users access to a fascinating trove of visual culture. Many of the postcards are “Oilettes,” reproductions of specially commissioned oil paintings reflecting various aspects of British life and imagination.
In the 1930s, the Newberry designed its own typeface to be used on book bindings made by the library’s in-house bindery. Intended to make life easier for librarians in the dimly lit stacks, the typeface was optimized for legibility–and it continues to appear on Newberry signage and gallery labels.
The Newberry and its 13 project partners are leading a year-long initiative to heighten the 1919 Chicago race riots in the city’s collective memory, engaging Chicagoans in public conversations about the legacy of the most violent week in Chicago history.
At the heart of the Newberry is a set of collection strengths that attract a variety of readers and serve as inspiration for our public programs and academic endeavors.
