Author: Lisa Weber
Story Hour in the Library featuring NoViolet Bulawayo
Date: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Place: Morrison Library
Free and open to the public
NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names, about a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America, won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times called it a “deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library.
Post contributed by Gigi Gillard, Donor Stewardship & Events Coordinator
Guerra Civil @ 80
September 1, 2016 – July 1, 2017
2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
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INCITE THE SPIRIT: POSTER ART OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR will be on exhibit from September 6 – December 16, 2016 at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Please visit http://spanishcivilwar80.berkeley.edu to learn more about the UC Berkeley events commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
Post submitted by Theresa Salazar, Curator for Western Americana, The Bancroft Library and Claude Potts, Librarian for Romance Languages, The University Library
Moffitt Library Student Advisory Council Accepting Applications
Do you live in the library? Do you never come to the library?
We want your opinion on how Moffitt Library can best meet your scholarly needs and those of your fellow undergraduates at UC Berkeley.
Apply to join the Moffitt Library Student Advisory Council by September 16, 2016.
The Moffitt Library is accepting applications from undergraduate students.
As a council member, you would provide advice and suggestions on services, events, programs and technology available in Moffitt Library.
More information can be found on our website.
Post contributed by Jean Ferguson, Learning and Research Communities Librarian
Lunch Poems Series Kick-Off 2016
Poet Robert Hass hosts a mid-day event featuring distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.
This year’s participants:
- Stephanie Cannizzo (BAM/PFA)
- David Duer (Retired Library Director of Development & External Relations )
- Penelope Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies)
- Jianye He (C. V. Starr East Asian Library)
- Paul Howl (Financial Services)
- Melani King (Public Affairs)
- Chana Kronfeld (Near Eastern Studies)
- Gregory P. Levine (History of Art)
- Jeff MacKie-Mason (University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer)
- Tim Pine (Environment, Health, & Safety)
- Dora Zhang (English)
When: 12:10 pm – 12:50 pm, September 1, 2016
Where: Morrison Library
Cost: Free and open to the public
See the 2016-2017 series schedule.
Coming this fall: view ILL checkouts in My OskiCat
It will soon be easier for you to use Interlibrary Loan!
- View ILL checkouts in My OskiCat.
- Receive the same hold, coming due, and overdue notices as your UC Berkeley checkouts.
- Return ILL material to any library location on campus.
- Extended loan periods on most ILL items eliminates need for renewals .
- Printed return receipts available.
- Retain your ILL history in My OskiCat.
See Interlibrary Borrowing News for more details.
Graphic Arts Loan Collection: It’s the good stuff!
Are you ready to upgrade the art in your apartment from rock and roll posters to prints by artists such as Marc Chagall, Reiner Schwarz, and Alberto Giacometti without spending a dime? The Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) at the Morrison Library is a collection of framed, original lithographs, etchings, and woodblock prints that you can bring home and hang on your wall! It’s been a service for UCB students, faculty and staff since 1958.
Learn more about the GALC and browse selections from the collection at 5 pm on August 31 in the Morrison.
What: Art for Your Apartment
Day: Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Time: 5 – 6 pm
Where: Morrison Library
Chinese Consul General: East Asian Library serves as gateway between China, U.S.
By the University Library, UC Berkeley
Chinese Consul General to San Francisco Luo Linquan and his wife Qiao Li visited the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday, August 23. Luo presented a $25,000 gift to the library, which will primarily be used to purchase Chinese publications that will serve the informational, educational and cultural needs of scholars and patrons.
“To see is to believe,” said Consul General Luo, on his first visit to the East Asian Library. “When I saw this new shining and spacious building, I was convinced and impressed.”
Luo said that the services and scholarship provided by the East Asian Library strengthen exchanges between the two countries and “inject new and positive energy into China-U.S. relations.”
Peter X. Zhou, assistant university librarian and director of the East Asian Library, shared selected treasures from the East Asian Library collection, including a Buddhist sutra with an engraving date of 1115 and one of the first books to employ separate woodblocks for each color printed.
“We appreciate the support from the Chinese consulate general,” Zhou said. “Their wonderful gift will allow us to expand and further build our Chinese collections. The success of our work depends in large measures on the support from friends like the consul general and donors around the globe.”
Luo toured the library’s peaceful study spaces and rare book vault before attending a luncheon hosted by the library as a thank you for the gift and goodwill.
“The Berkeley Library is deeply grateful to Consul General Luo Linquan and the consulate for their support,” said University Librarian Jeff MacKie-Mason. “Our Starr East Asian Library provides public access to one of the most comprehensive collections of rare, historical and contemporary scholarly materials from China in the country, and thus serves as a valuable cultural, historical, and social bridge between our two nations.”
The C.V. Starr East Asian Library contains one of the most vast collections of materials in East Asian languages in the United States. Its combined holdings total over one million volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian languages, making it one of the top two such collections in the United States outside of the Library of Congress.
Book Talk with Dacher Keltner
Thursday, September 1, 2016, 5-6pm
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
Education Psychology Library, Seminar Room
Professor Dacher Keltner will be speaking about his new book, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/power_paradox), which synthesizes his twenty years of scientific research on power. How we handle power impacts our happiness, our stress, and our physical health — as well as that of people around us.
Dacher Keltner is famous for his ability to make complex psychological research interesting and actionable (he and Paul Ekland were responsible for the science behind Pixar’s Inside Out, for just one example!) Join us for a fascinating discussion with Professor Keltner on the timely and important topics explored in his new book.
New Student Tech Support Desk in Moffitt Library
As part of a project called Student Computing @ Cal, that was funded over the summer by the Student Technology Fund, a new technology help desk launched on Monday, August 22 today in Moffitt Library.
Undergraduate and graduate students can stop by and get help with their own laptops, phones, tablets or other personal devices.
Help includes, but is not limited to:
- Setting up your AirBears2 key
- Downloading Cal provided software, such as the Adobe Creative Suite
- Removing viruses
The technology help desk is located on the back side of the ID check desk inside the main 3rd floor entry.
Hours are posted at: https://rescomp.berkeley.edu/units/moffitt/
Students can call or email for help when the desk isn’t staffed (or any time):
- The phone number for student tech help is 510-642-5347
- The email address for student tech help is helpdesk@rescomp.berkeley.edu
Summer Reading List: Madame de Pompadour
The UC Berkeley Summer Reading List is an annual compilation of recommended (though not required) readings suggested by Cal faculty, staff, and students as a welcome to incoming freshmen and transfer students.
This biography tells the story of King Louis XV’s first bourgeoise mistress, Madame d’Etioles, née Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. The book is a lovely, history-filled character study of this unique 18th century Frenchwoman. At age nine, the future Madame de Pompadour was nicknamed Reinette by her family after a fortune-teller predicted she would “reign over the heart of a king.” She grew up becoming accomplished in useful, interesting, and elegant ways, with good taste and much charm.
Mitford richly and amusingly recounts how Madame de Pompadour was able to get introduced to the King even though she was a bourgeoise; how they loved each other; how the Queen was able to tolerate her; how she negotiated the feelings and machinations of the court and detractors; and how her dream ended. There is too much fascinating description and storytelling to do the book justice in a short paragraph; suffice to say that this is absolutely a work of literature, not just biography. (A particularly good edition of the book is the revised 1968 Harper & Row edition, with its many full-page color illustrations.)
JEAN DICKINSON Slavic Cataloging Librarian
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Michael Larkin Lecturer, College Writing Programs
Tim Dilworth First Year Coordinator, Library