Called an "eye-opening exhibit" by The News & Observer, "The ABC of Collecting Everyman's Library" at the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was an outstanding success. The exhibit opened on 17 January 2008 with a lecture by Terry Seymour, independent scholar, collector, and author of The Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library. Originally slated to end on 31 March, the exhibit was so popular among scholars, collectors, students, and the local community that it was extended an additional two weeks, and came to a reluctant close on 12 April. For those of us who were able to travel to Chapel Hill to view the exhibition, it was an extraordinary and delightful experience, made especially pleasant by the friendliness and enthusiasm of Dr. Elizabeth Chenault and her Rare Book Collection staff. For those of you who could not make the trip, we have created a special Everyman's Library Exhibit page containing related images, links, and the text of Terry Seymour's lecture.

Good titles like good lyrics drop from heaven. The finding of one, arresting and explicit, was the grand crux. We must have made up a score of possible names for the new series ... but not one of them quite satisfied us. Then one day, walking along Garrick Street past the doors of the Garrick Club, not thinking of anything in particular, I suddenly remembered the lines of the old mystery play: "Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide, In thy most need to go by thy side"—that gave me the cue, and sent me marching into the office where the old chief sat. "Eureka!"  I said. "I have found the title— Everyman's Library." He stared for a moment incredulously, then said, "Why, yes, you have got it!"

—Ernest Rhys