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Whether you're an undergrad, grad, or faculty and staff, good luck to all with these upcoming weeks! We're just about at the finish line 🏃‍♂️ and Ricker Library is here to support you with materials, references, and break time. Self-affirmation time! 🔥 You got this!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck chucked this wood? Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) is wood composed of glued together wood waste. Can you tell how many pieces of wood is glued together? 🤔 🔍 #MaterialsLibraryFriday #Wood #WoodWaste

Come to Ricker Reading Day on December 7th, a relaxing event sponsored by FAA James Scholar Honors Program! It's going to be a casual event with snacks, coloring pages, puzzles and more 😁 Stop by and relax with us! #RickerLibrary #Relaxation #FAAScholars #ReadingDay

#MaterialLibrary #RickerLibrary #fabrics #muskinmushroomleather

Which of these leathers are made of mushrooms? If you guessed the first one then you're a winner! Muskin mushroom leather is made from the invasive and parasitic mushroom Phellinus epllipsoideus, native to subtropical forests. The texture? Well, come feel it for yourself. 😉

Happy Fall Break from Ricker Library! 🍂 We'll only be available Monday-Wednesday of next week so take this time to spend some quality time with your loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving! #fallbreak #RickerLibrary #libraryhours

#RickerLibrary #textile #swatch #fabric

Friday is for #MaterialsLibrary highlights now! Featuring in our textile collection is the handy hemp fiber sample book, Hemp Traders Fabric Swatch Book, and the cool alternative leather made from pineapple wastes, #Piñatex. Free to touch and feel and only at the Ricker Library😎

We house several samples of all sorts of materials for you to touch, feel, and view! These aren't available for circulation yet but you can look through them in the library! What other samples should we get our hands on? #RickerLibrary #art #architecture #materials #building

Here are some of the finished cards by our amazing participants for the Ricker Pop-Up Card Event! Everyone did an amazing job with their cards, should we bring it back next year? 👀 #RickerLibrary #popupcards ⁠#art #design #cards #libraryevents #libraryfriends

Here's a look into Ricker Library's first ever Pop-Up Card Event! With the help of @IllinoisLibrary we were able to create amazing pop-up cards together. The next post will showcase some of the finished cards by our lovely participants, stay tuned! #RickerLibrary #libraryfriends

.@RickerLibraryUI has so much amazing stuff like living moss wall tiles, thoughtfully curated displays, enormous books, and more. And the best part is that our whole community can access it all. smilepolitely.com/culture/siobha…

We are celebrating Indigenous People's Day with a spotlight on a recent addition to our circulating collection; “Memory Map”, the catalog of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's major retrospective exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

#CUPrideFest2023 #Pride #RickerLibrary #Art #Architecture

We brought back our Pride Self Expression table just in time for CU Pride Fest 2023! Stop by the Ricker Library to make your very own buttons, zines, and collages. Browse our amazing collection showcasing LGBTQ works and experiences. This will last till the end of September!

@Lett_Arc 📚✨❤️

Happy Labor Day! This week we are celebrating with “Strikethrough!: Typographic Images of Protest,” the official catalog of @LetterformArchive's 2022-23 exhibition. Visit the link in our bio to request this book from Ricker’s collections and search for similar titles.

Have you heard? @KAMillinois is hosting a traveling exhibition of the prints of artist Marie Watt, whose work draws on pop culture, mythology and her Native American and European ancestry. ▶️ go.illinois.edu/MarieWatt

An exhibition at the Illini Union Art Gallery this month will feature photographs of artwork from the Mexican Muralism movement. “Movement Routes, Mexican Muralism” will open September 7 at 10:30am to noon in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union. ▶️ go.illinois.edu/ArtGallery