Author: Lee Anne Titangos
Roundtable: It’s Still Fun: An Inside Look at Small Press Publishing
October 20th, Faculty Club
12pm
The second Bancroft Round Table of the fall semester will take place at the Faculty Club at noon on Thursday October 20. Malcolm Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books, will share his thoughts and experiences in a talk entitled “It’s Still Fun: An Inside Look at Small Press Publishing.” Because we anticipate a substantial crowd we are grateful to have the Seaborg Room as an alternate location for this event. Please be aware that the Seaborg room is up a flight of stairs. It is located at the western end of the Faculty Club, directly above the bar.
Founded in 1974, Heyday is one of the finest small presses in the nation and has worked in collaboration with Bancroft on many of our publications. An independent, nonprofit publishing house, Heyday is a unique cultural institution. It has played an essential role in creating the widespread current awareness of California’s many cultures, landscapes and boundary-breaking ideas. Through well-crafted and beautiful books, public events, and innovative outreach programs Heyday has become a pillar of Bay Area intellectual life.
Malcom Margolin a legend in his own right. This is a special chance to hear the inspirational and imaginative man who made Heyday what it is speak about the craft that he knows so well. The community is cordially invited to join us at Malcolm Margolin’s talk.
Online Exhibit: California Women and the Vote
With material drawn from collections held in The Bancroft Library, this exhibit celebrates the centennial anniversary of woman suffrage in California. Brought to light are the faces of the state’s suffragists, many from the Bay Area, along with those of the movement’s support and opposition. This exhibit also illustrates the suffragists’ vigorous campaign to rally votes for their cause, as well as the media frenzy to predict the election’s final outcome.
Visit the online exhibit at: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/suffrage/
The original exhibit is currently on display until December 16, 2011.
The Bancroft Library: Homecoming Events, October 13-16
California Crossings Exhibition
Open to the public:
Friday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Curator led tours (limited to the first 30 people):
Friday 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Friday 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Location: The Bancroft Library Gallery
California Crossings: Stories of Migration, Relocation, and New Encounters invites the viewer to embrace our state’s rich and diverse history through The Bancroft Library’s unique and rare holdings, including voluminous collections, original manuscripts, drawings, paintings, photographs, rare publications, and prints. Gain new perspectives on often contradictory and competing claims to history from the points of view of the original peoples and national interests that set in motion California’s coming of age. Go at your own pace anytime on Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., or take a curator-led tour at 1:30 or 3 p.m. Tour space is limited to the first 30 people.
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Bullets Across the Bay Exhibition and Panel
Open to the public:
Friday 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet the curator:
Friday 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Panel discussion & book signing:
Friday 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Location: Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library
Ever since the publication of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon in 1930, San Francisco has been recognized as the birthplace of modern crime fiction. Doe Library’s exhibit, Bullets Across the Bay, examines the Bay Area as a popular setting for mystery and detective novels and highlights the richness of UC Berkeley’s collections for the study of genre fiction. There will be a special panel discussion and book signing on Friday from 4-6 p.m. in 190 Doe (across from the Morrison Library, north entrance of Doe) with local mystery authors Lucha Corpi, Eddie Muller, Kelli Stanley, and moderator Janet Rudolph.
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Getting to Know Twain: 44 Years with the Mark Twain Papers
Open to the public:
Saturday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: TBA
The much anticipated autobiography of legendary author and humorist Mark Twain created an unprecedented buzz before it even hit stores last fall — 100 years after he died. The 756-page tome was published due to the herculean efforts of the Mark Twain Project’s editors, who sometimes uncovered hidden facts that helped get the text right and that shed inadvertent light on the author’s character. Hirst, the project’s general editor, will share examples that he has found during 44 years of combing through Twain’s typescripts, dictations, and notes.
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Roundtable: IIlluminating the Jewel City: Spectacular Lighting at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
September 15th, Faculty Club
12pm
The first Bancroft Round Table of the fall semester will take place in the Lewis Latimer Room, of The Faculty Club at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday September 15. Architectural historian Laura Ackley will give a talk entitled: “Illuminating the Jewel City: Spectacular Lighting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.”
The Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) opened in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1915 as war raged in Europe. Organized to commemorate the completion of the Panama Canal and the 400th anniversary of Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific Ocean, the Exposition also came to commemorate the rebirth of San Francisco after the catastrophic earthquake of April 1906. Ms. Ackley will discuss the elaborate and ground-breaking lighting effects created for San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. General Electric Illuminating Engineer Walter D’Arcy Ryan designed, for the first time, a “Total Illumination Plan” which skeptics claimed could not be realized.
The scope of the preparations was staggering and technological innovation was at a premium. The campus community is invited to listen to Ms. Ackley’s illuminating remarks upon the lighting, a design element central to the magnificence and success of the Exposition. Bancroft’s PPIE records are one of our most heavily used collections, both by visiting scholars and our Berkeley students.
Everyday Dogs: A Perpetual Calendar for Birthdays and Other Notable Dates
A new publication by Bancroft’s Susan Snyder and UC Berkeley’s Mary Scott
What do Gertrude Stein, John Muir, Jack London, Queen Victoria, and your next-door neighbor all have in common?
Dogs. The cherished unbreakable bond of friendship between canine and human graces all of our days.
Everyday Dogs: A Perpetual Calendar for Birthdays and Other Notable Dates couples literary quotes about canines with historical images from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, to create a timeless keepsake that echoes a resounding truth: that through it all, our dogs will be there.
Purchase your copy at Heyday Books today!
Getting to Know Mark Twain: Forty-four Years in the Mark Twain Papers
Monday, 9/12
Arlington Community Church
52 Arlington Ave., Kensington, CA
7 – 8 pm
Bob Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley, will present “Getting to Know Mark Twain: Forty-four Years in the Mark Twain Papers.” In this talk Dr. Hirst will give a series of examples of how editing primary documents can shed light on the character of a writer. This program is part of Kensington Reads and is made possible with a grant from the California State Library.
For more info, please contact Liz Ruhland: (510)524-3043
Online Exhibit: The California Gold Rush Experience
The title for this exhibit — “I am bound to stick awhile longer” — is taken from a gold rush letter sent by N.A. Chandler, from the diggings at Michigan Hill. It expresses something of the hope and persistence of these early miners, working against hard odds yet drawn on by the gleam of gold. Through journals, letters, emigrant guides and other early accounts of the gold fields, photographs, lettersheets, sheet music, maps, lithographs, drawings and other pictorial materials, the exhibit presents the experience of those affected by the gold rush during the early years of discovery and first diggings, 1848 through 1853.
Visit the online exhibit at: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Goldrush/
Elaine Tennant named new Bancroft Library director
“Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library starting in September.
Tennant said she hopes to help integrate The Bancroft more fully into the campus’s teaching and research missions and wants the library to take an active role in the ongoing discussion of the nature of information and the future of libraries in the 21st century.
‘Collections of material artifacts like those held by The Bancroft present special challenges and have a particular contribution to make to our thinking about information in an increasingly virtual environment,’ Tennant said. ‘Figuring out what the relationship is between old and new technologies, and among multiple forms of knowing, is the kind of thing that Berkeley’s great at.'” – Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations
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Beyond Words: 200 Years of Illustrated Diaries
A new publication by Bancroft’s Susan Snyder
In the age before cameras, the skill of illustration—like that of piano playing, good penmanship, and journaling—was frequently the mark of an educated person. Whereas the written word alone can adequately record the details of one’s life, enhancing that with illustration adds yet another texture to the story, resulting in works that both intrigue the mind and delight the eye.
Beyond Words is a collection of excerpts from fifty illustrated diaries spanning two hundred years of adventure and contemplation. From the records of eighteenth-century Spanish explorer Pedro Font to those of a young David Brower first encountering the wilderness, these unfolding stories reveal as much about the times in which they were written as they do the diarists’ particular inner worlds.
Whether filled with chicken-scratch sketches or gilded illuminations, these diaries have become objets d’art that expand our understanding of the uniquely compelling experiences of their creators—from anonymous writers to luminaries like LeConte and Muir, and from Beat poets to twelve-year-old girls. Beyond Words is a fascinating and intimate collection that will inspire you to pull out pen and paper to capture the fleeting images and experiences of your own life.
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