Celebrate Filipino American History Month this October with our featured collection of novels and memoirs by Filipino American authors. Find these and more in our UCB Overdrive collection.
Please find this selection of books in Catalan recently received and cataloged for your reading pleasure. Catalan is a Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, where it is called Valencian.
Catalan is considered a Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) in Europe and has received special support from the U.S. Department of Education under the auspices of Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Other languages of interest to research and teaching at Berkeley and historically supported by this program administered by the Institute of European Studies include Dutch, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Occitan, Yiddish, Galician, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and more.
Kaya Press (https://kaya.com/) has been making space for voices in the Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic writers in the United States since 1994, when it was founded in New York City. Establishing itself as a “premier publisher of cutting-edge” literature, the Press moved to in USC Dornsife’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in Los Angeles in 2012 where it has continued releasing phenomenal material.[1]
The Press not only releases excellent novels and poetry, but also participates in book fairs, contributes to community activity, hosts author readings, and more.[2] Readers can find information about their events on their Instagram page.
You can find the majority of the Press’ catalog through the (UC Library Search) and access them in either in the UC Berkeley Main Stacks or the Ethnic Studies Library’s shelves.
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[1] “Kaya Press Moves from New York to USC Dornsife,” News and Events (blog), February 22, 2012, https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/kaya-press-moves-from-new-york-to-usc-dornsife/.
[2] “About,” Kaya Press, accessed May 1, 2025, https://kaya.com/about/.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
12:45 pm to 2:15 pm PST (3:45 pm to 5:15 pm EST)
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Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 11:00am–12:00pm
This workshop will provide you with practical guidance for navigating copyright questions and other legal considerations for your dissertation or thesis. Whether you’re just starting to write or you’re getting ready to file, you can use our tips and workflow to figure out what you can use, what rights you have as an author, and what it means to share your dissertation online.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 (11:00am–12:30pm)
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Hear from a panel of experts—an acquisitions editor, a first-time book author, and an author rights expert—about the process of turning your dissertation into a book. You’ll come away from this panel discussion with practical advice about revising your dissertation, writing a book proposal, approaching editors, signing your first contract, and navigating the peer review and publication process.
Two Line Press, a press line for the Center for the Art of Translations, concentrates on translations of phenomenal fiction from around the world. Oliver Sears initially founded the Two Lines journal (UC Catalog Search for journal) in 1993 to focus on the art of translation and acknowledge the hard, incredible work of the translators.[1] In 2000, Sears and a team of wonderful collaborators launched the Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) out of San Francisco both to run the journal and start the Calico Series for books.[2]
As of the writing of this post, the press is reaching toward 100 translations of books from Arabic, Czech, Finish, Macedonian, Swahili, Spanish, Thai, and more. Readers can take a look at their catalog at https://www.catranslation.org/books/.
You can find more about Two Lines Press’ events on their Instagram page. Note that as of the writing of this post, they have a series of events in both New York City and in San Francisco! The ones in San Francisco include book events such as Mary Jo Bang on Dante’s Paradiso with Tess Taylor (information) and participation in the Litquake Small Press Book (September 28).
Readers are encouraged to check out these recent titles from UC Berkeley Library!
UC Berkeley has these and more titles from Two Line Press. Find out what we have through the UC Library Search.
[1] About, Center for the Art of Translation, accessed July 16, 2025, https://www.catranslation.org/about/.
[2] Sophia Stewart, “Two Lines Press Pushes Translation’s Boundaries,” Publishers Weekly, August 7, 2025, https://www.publishersweekly.com/.
Selections from the library’s collection of loanable artwork (the Graphic Arts Loan Collection) are now on display in the Art History/Classics Library (308 Doe).
You are welcome to attend one of the upcoming library orientation sessions for the Art History/Classics Library (308 Doe). The sessions are capped at 20 students, so be sure to reserve your spot via the rsvp form. Sessions are offered on the following dates/times:
Thursday, September 11th, 12-1
Monday, September 15th, 4-5
Tuesday, September 16th, 5-6
One of the amazing, small presses that we’ve acquired material from is Mammoth Publications (https://mammothpublications.net). Mammoth was founded in 2003 and is located in Healdsburg, CA. It was initially founded to provide a space for poets including Eddie Two-Rivers (Wikipedia) to release their work. Authors Thomas Pecore Weso and Denise Low served as co-publishers until 2023, releasing two-to-four books and/or chapbooks a year. Denise Low still heads Mammoth, continuing to release excellent works of poetry, memoirs, and more.
The press prioritizes Indigenous and regional authors.
I encourage you to take a look at some of UC Berkeley’s recent acquisition of Mammoth Publication’s books, including:
Take a look at these or other Mammoth Publication books at UC Berkeley Library.
