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Exhibits

University Libraries often has a number of exhibits that feature collections materials in interesting and narrative ways. Check out our current featured exhibits.

Featured Physical Exhibits

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“Something significant, elemental, and profound”: Celebrating 100 Years of The Great Gatsby - January 24 to July 15 2025

Regarded by many as the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was first published on April 10, 2025. In celebration of the novel’s 100th anniversary, this exhibit features items from the Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which constitutes the most comprehensive research collection for the study and teaching of Fitzgerald, those associated with him, and his times. The exhibit features notable items including the contract, galley proofs and first edition of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s manuscript ledger book, letters written while he was drafting the novel, inscribed and annotated copies, and material from Fitzgerald’s friends and contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway, Max Perkins, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and others.  Public viewing hours for the exhibit are Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Women in Science Fiction: From Frankenstein to Dungeons and Dragons

From the 1600s to the present day, women have long made notable contributions to science fiction. Our Women’s History Month exhibit, located at the front of Thomas Cooper Library, explores the work of acclaimed writers like Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood as well as women writers of pulp fiction and Dungeons and Dragon novels.

From Geometry to Grover: South Carolina Public Television

From Geometry to Grover: South Carolina Public Television opens August 18 in the South Carolina Political Collections gallery at Hollings Library. The exhibit looks at the history of public television in South Carolina, starting with geometry and French classes presented live from Dreher High School in 1958, all the way to today.

 
Featured Digital Exhibits 

Piranesi's Worlds: Mapping the Architectural Imagination

The Italian visual artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his architectural studies of Rome and “imaginary prisons.” While Rome remained his subject and his home, he depicted worlds both real and imagined.

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Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement

Visit the digital companion to the Justice for All exhibit at Hollings Library to explore resources online.

Ray Bradbury Now and Forever: The Anne Farr Hardin Collection

Bradbury’s stories first gripped Hardin when she bought a copy of The Illustrated Man at a school book fair. This exhibit showcases her life-long collection of Bradbury books, fanzines, pulps, magazines, correspondence, photographs and memorabilia.

 

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