In hooded sweatshirts and head scarves, UNC students looked to make a statement Thursday afternoon. About 65 students gathered on the steps of Wilson Library for a photo shoot to symbolically protest acts of racial discrimination — specifically, two recent cases they said targeted the black and Muslim communities.

In 1964, Dick Waterman knocked on blues musician Son House’s door with good news — the music House had recorded 30 years ago had finally made him famous. Long before the age of the Internet, Waterman had driven around the country to find House.

Wilson Library’s latest special collections exhibit delves 200 years into the past of school textbooks.

A crowd of more than 40 people were reminded of Chapel Hill’s key role in the civil rights movement Wednesday.

A book of Mozart’s about playing violin sits nearby a guitar signed by UNC’s own Andy Griffith in the UNC Music Library’s newest exhibit, “Curating Sound: 75 Years of Music Collections at UNC,” which is commemorating the collections’ 75th anniversary.

For the Real Silent Sam protestors, historical accuracy is the primary concern.

Blues legend Howlin’ Wolf’s large physicality and personality dominated the stage. Tonight, his legacy will do the same. In celebration of the late blues musician, Wilson Library’s Southern Folklife Collection will host a discussion and concert as part of their Blues Legacy series.

One of the University’s oldest libraries and home to scores of irreplaceable documents is especially vulnerable to fire damage. Wilson Library ­— which holds a variety of rare historical collections — was completed in 1929, before fire codes required sprinklers in University buildings.

Students and faculty members who depend on resources from UNC Libraries might find smaller selections as libraries cope with a $3.6 million funding cut.

The books in Wilson Library not only contain history — they are history. And on Tuesday at the Rare Book Collection, they had a chance to escape their glass encasing and breathe. At the second annual public display of the collection’s recent additions, Claudia Funke, curator of Rare Books, spoke about the universality of rare books.

An exhibit focusing on student extracurricular activities through the past two centuries will be held in the Wilson Special Collections Library through May 31.

After a pair of sold-out shows at the Cat’s Cradle in December, Memphis-based Big Star is bringing an acoustic encore of these concerts to the University’s Historic Playmakers Theatre. The concert will feature a variety of local musicians and groups in what organizers promise will be a moving evening of music.

Years ago, graduate student Tracey Slaughter saw folk singer Utah Phillip’s 1983 album “We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years” on sale for twenty dollars. Deciding it was too expensive, she chose not buy it — and she’s regretted it ever since. On Saturday, Slaughter discovered the treasured album in a cardboard box at the Wilson Library record sale, where duplicate materials and unrestricted gifts were sold to clear space and raise funds.

The Wilson Library Rare Book Collection celebrated Colombian author José María Vargas Vila’s 150th birthday Thursday with a lecture, as they launched a digital collection of his works. The lecture, “Vargas Vila: 150 Years of Clamorous Solitude,” was presented by UNC romance languages professor Juan Carlos González-Espitia. He read Vila’s works in his childhood and kept an interest in the author throughout his life. Espitia said that when he came to UNC, he immediately checked the libraries for Vila’s works.