Program Description: Through innovative approaches to exhibits, special collections libraries can provide viewers with vivid and meaningful points of connection to collection materials. In this panel, you’ll hear about exhibits at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and University of Arizona Special Collections that involved planning an opening reception at which visitors were invited to eat a poem, borrowing a precision hemisphere used by scientists to craft the moon maps used for the lunar landings, integrating primary source materials related to the USS Arizona into university athletic uniforms, and displaying space artist Robert McCall’s paintings in conversation with contemporary poems. Special collections libraries are often seen as unfamiliar and even formidable spaces; through exhibits that incorporate interactive and unexpected elements, special collections libraries can demonstrate the value of their holdings for a wide variety of people, while also building or strengthening relationships with partners both on campus and off.