February 22nd - May 2nd, 2019 in the Lally Reading Room
The Face of Change: Women at Union College” focuses on pioneers who played vital roles in the integration of women at the College. Urania Sheldon Nott, the third wife of Union president Eliphalet Nott, helped expand the view of women in education when she founded a private school “for young ladies” that started in Troy and moved to Schenectady.

January 3rd - March 25th, 2024 in the Lally Reading Room
This exhibit features four prints selected by members of Schaffer Library's instruction team. Union's double elephant folio prints continue to serve this purpose one hundred eighty years later.

January 9th - March 24th, 2023 in the Lally Reading Room
Winter Term 2023 exhibit featuring four owl prints from Union’s collection of double elephant folio Birds of America by John James Audubon

Unveiled for permanent display on May 14th, 2026 in Wold, Union College campus.
Union College’s Stone Lion is a cultural artifact that is the product of millennia of artistic development and sustained cultural exchange across Eurasia through the Silk Roads, a vast network of land and sea trade routes that began around the 2nd century BCE, during China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) and continued through the mid-15th century.

February 1st - April 21st, 2016 in the Lally Reading Room
This exhibit explores the scientific and literary environment in which Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first conceived and written. Begun 200 years ago in 1816, and revised several times during Shelley’s lifetime, Frankenstein reflects contemporary developments in the natural sciences and in literary views of the natural world.

Digital Exhibit: April 15, 2013
This website is an historic guide to Union College as it stood at the turn of the twentieth century. It is based upon information and stories gleaned from the recent donation to the College of a treasure trove of over 700 letters written between 1895 and 1904 by Anne Dunbar Potts Perkins, beloved campus resident, creator of Mrs. Perkins’ Garden, and wife of Maurice Perkins (Union College Professor of Chemistry, 1865-1901).

January 21st - May, 2013 in the Lally Reading Room
This exhibition showcases the wide variety of material held in Schaffer Library's Special Collections. It includes samples of the treasures collected throughout the many decades of Union's history - among them, plates from John James Audubon's Birds of North America , purchased by the College from the artist himself in 1814 - as well as rare works and historic material acquired as recently as December 2012.

January 21st - March 21st, 2014 in the Lally Reading Room
This exhibit features works hand selected by Schaffer's previous head of the Special Collections department, Ellen Fladger, who retired in January of 2014.

September 7th - December 14th, 2018 in the Beuth Atrium
As Union College welcomes Dr. David Harris as its nineteenth president, the Schaffer Library Special Collections and Archives presents “Two Centuries of Union College Presidents, 1795-2018.”

Digital Exhibit: December 10th, 2018
This website showcases notable people whom have either graduated from Union College or have had a significant accomplishment in association with the college.

January 1st - March 25th, 2025 in the Beuth Atrium.
Over the course of 3 class sessions this fall term, students in Joyce Madancy’s HST-279 “Walls (and Fences)” class explored the history of the Terrace Wall, the fences around campus, and the Payne Gate.

September 1st, 2014 - January 20th, 2015 in the Lally Reading Room
Books were critical in maintaining morale among American troops during World War Two, and millions of books were distributed to servicemen all over the world. Giving books to the troops helped keep them occupied – but also served as a symbolic contrast to the book burning of the Nazis.