Tag: Exhibits
The Papyrus in the Crocodile: 150 Years of Exploration, Excavation, Collection, and Stewardship at Berkeley
The Papyrus in the Crocodile: 150 Years of Exploration, Excavation, Collection, and Stewardship at Berkeley
May 6th – July 29, 2016
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm
The collections assembled by Berkeley’s patrons and collectors over the last 150 years form the foundation of many of the university’s academic disciplines. This unprecedented exhibition, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and co-curated by graduate students from the History of Art Department, brings together materials from The Bancroft Library, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Environmental Design Archives, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the Berkeley Art Museum.
Image courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Environmental Design Library exhibit shows the human side of design
The University of California College of Environmental Design transformed design education when it became the first architecture program in the nation to integrate the study of social factors into its curriculum. Soon the College’s Community Design Center and the Department of Landscape Architecture adopted the practice.
“Teaching Design with People in Mind,” a current exhibit at the Environmental Design Library, highlights Social Factors concepts in the 1960s through the 1980s as well as their widespread influence today.
Social Factors explored the complex relationships between the physical and the social in design, encouraging students to be more responsive to human needs.
Raymond Lifchez, Caitlin DeClerq, and Ayda Melika curated the exhibit.
Date: March 1 – May 27, 2016
Place: Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall, Volkmann Reading Room.
Post contributed by David Eifler, Environmental Design Librarian
Book sale, exhibits, tours, coloring, and more – Cal Day April 16th
Stop by the libraries on Cal Day, April 16th, for fun, one of a kind events, exhibits, and tours.
09:00 AM
Artist and Pop-Up Books
9:00 am-12:00 pm
210 Wurster Hall, Environmental Design Library
The Environmental Design Library has a large collection of unique artist books and interesting architectural pop-up books. This is a rare opportunity for the public to turn the pages of artist books that are too often locked in exhibit cases.
Doe Library $1 Book Sale
9:00 am-3:00 pm
303 Doe Library
Pick up some books for your collection at Doe Library’s annual book sale. You’ll find thousands of hardcover and softcover books, each on sale for only $1.
Exhibit: No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
NL || LE presents a collection of digital works of literature–in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and English–side by side with experimental print materials from the past century. Meant to be read on computers and other digital devices, these electronic stories and poems reveal new ideas about literary and media developments and encourage visitors to interact with the machines.
Tour Doe and Moffitt Libraries and Gardner Stacks
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Doe Library, north entrance, or Moffitt Library, south entrance
Take a self-guided tour of the 52 miles of shelves in UC Berkeley’s two main libraries. Start at the Doe Library (north entrance) information desk or the Moffitt Library south entrance.
10:00 AM
Color the UC Berkeley Library Collections
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Morrison Reading Room Doe Library
The UC Berkeley Library invites you to join us for a fun, all-ages coloring event! Stop by the Morrison Library in Doe Library and select a coloring sheet from one of our various collections.
Visit Morrison Library
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Doe Library, Morrison Reading Room
The magnificent Morrison Library opened in Doe Library in 1928 as a traditional library reading room where students could take a break from academic life. One of the architectural treasures of the UC Berkeley campus, Morrison Library offers comfortable seating for leisurely reading, a graphic arts collection, and a circulating collection of newly published books.
Faking It: Forgeries, False Attributions and Doctored Volumes
10:00 am-5:00 pm
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
This exhibition displays books, rubbings and texts that have been fabricated or somehow reworked to increase their seeming rarity or market appeal.
10:30 AM
Visit the Physics-Astronomy Library
10:30 am-2:30 pm
351 LeConte Hall
Explore the rich legacy of Berkeley Physics and find out what it takes to be a well-read physicist! Come see the library’s pop-up exhibit of the 100 most popular titles. If you can guess which book was checked out most often, you just might win a prize!
2:00 PM
Tour of C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies
2:00-3:00 pm
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Tour the Starr Library, which opened in 2008 and houses over 1,000,000 volumes of Chinese, Korean and Japanese materials. Be sure to check out the special exhibit “Faking It: Forgeries, False Attributions and Doctored Volumes.”
Protecting the New Wonderland: The Origins of the National Park Service
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The Protecting the New Wonderland exhibit explores the origins of the National Park Service with materials drawn from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library.
Signed by President Woodrow Wilson in August 1916, the Organic Act created the National Park Service, the federal bureau that protects our national parks and monuments. Several UC Berkeley alumni with conservationist interests – and the lure of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco – played key roles in the formation of the park service.
Dates: February 26 – October 7, 2016
Location: The Rowell Exhibition Cases, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Curated by: Kathi Neal, Associate University Archivist, The Bancroft Library and by Michele Morgan, Accessioning Archivist, The Bancroft Library
For details, contact The Bancroft Library at 510-642-3782 or visit the Bancroft website.
Post contributed by Alison Wannamaker, Publications and Production Specialist, Library Graphics Office
*Image courtesy of The Bancroft Library.
‘Bear Lake and Long’s Peak.’
Scenes of Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Playground of the World by W. T. Parke, 1890.
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No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica
Exhibit – Multimedia | March 11 – September 2, 2016 | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
OPENING SYMPOSIUM – A Round Table Discussion
Friday, March 11 from 10am to 12:30pm, BIDS (Doe 190)
OPENING RECEPTION with poet Amaranth Borsuk and writer Doménico Chiappe
Friday, March 11, 2016, 5:30pm, Morrison Library
The exhibition No Legacy || Literatura electrónica (NL||LE) presents a collection of works of digital literature in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and English alongside print works of the 20th-century avant-garde. It gathers an unprecedented team of collaborators from across the UC Berkeley campus (the University Library, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Institute of European Studies, and the Berkeley Center for New Media) as well as national and international partners to showcase the impact of technology on literary production in the 21st-century networked world.
Electronic literature, or e-lit, refers to works that utilize computers and other digital media in creative literary ways. Examples include hypertext or interactive fiction, digital poetry, narrative generators, Twitter bots, augmented reality texts, iPad applications, etc. Meant to be read on computers and other devices, electronic literary works reveal new ideas about literary and media developments while inviting interaction with readers. The characteristics of e-lit pose challenges for writers, scholars, and curators when issues like software and hardware obsolescence and preservation come to the forefront. Exhibits like NL||LE have become an ideal medium of projection for this kind of literary expression.
NL||LE brings forth the historical dimension of e-lit works. Reading a work online with a shiny new computer or tablet makes it easy to forget that what one is seeing might be a legacy work from the early 1990s. Only two decades ago, computation and devices were drastically different. Their affordances in terms of graphics, speed, memory as well as the fact that the Internet did not exist yet have influenced the way these pieces were created and read. By incorporating vintage computers in the exhibit, the NL||LE team highlights the historical grounding of the works. Claude Potts, Romance Languages Librarian at UC Berkeley, has furthered the temporality of the project by assembling more than fifty print works that inform the creation and reading of the digital pieces. Exhibition design and fabrication was done by students in a Berkeley Center for New Media seminar taught by Stephanie Lie.
Although e-lit exhibits have proliferated in the US and around the Spanish speaking world, in NL||LE co-curators Alexandra Saum-Pascual and Élika Ortega propose to recover the previously unseen relationships of English language e-lit with Spanish and Portuguese language works, both print and digital. NL||LE launches a speculative exploration of literary history: an alternative to making connections between movements and authors. Instead, it asks questions that highlight less common kinds of literary relationships like the look or the handling of the work as objects.
No Legacy || Literatura electrónica opens on March 11, 2016 and runs through September 2, 2016 in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery of UC Berkeley’s Doe Library. Find more details about the opening symposium and reception.
- For visiting hours please check lib.berkeley.edu/hours
- Website: nolegacy.berkeley.edu
Exhibit honors “Imagined Communities” author & scholar, Benedict Anderson
The most insightful and enduring work of renown scholar, Benedict Anderson, is showcased in a small exhibit in room 120 of Doe Library.
Professor Anderson was recognized as a giant in Southeast Asian studies. He inspired and trained several generations of students and shared his intellectual originality and innovation with the world.
Anderson’s most influential publication, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, has been translated into two dozen languages.
Find out more about his work online and at the exhibit, which is up until April 29th.
Anderson passed away recently. Throughout his life, he was an accomplished scholar who produced a few dozen major scholarly works on language and politics. He was the editor of the seminal journal Indonesia published by the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. His linguistic skills were also extraordinary. Anderson was fluent in Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Javanese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai.
Virginia Shih and Vaughn Egge co-curated the exhibit.
Post contributed by Virginia Shih, Librarian for Southeast Asian Collections
1916 News Flashback outside Moffitt Library
Have you noticed some decidedly old news posted on Moffitt’s Newspaper Display Wall alongside current events from around the world?
We’re posting the front page of a different 1916 newspaper each week so you can see what was making headlines a century ago.
We primarily post newspapers from California or other Western states, though not exclusively. Each historical paper is up Thursday through Sunday, while the other front pages in front of Moffitt change daily.
We hope you enjoy this peek into the past!
For more old news, see our online news databases and check out blog posts on historical newspapers from History Librarian, Jennifer Dorner.
Moffitt Exhibit on Soviet-Cuba Propaganda (1959-1991)
The Moffitt Library exhibit, Showcasing the Socialist Propaganda: Soviet-Cuba Relations, explores the art of propaganda and its role in the relations between the Soviet Union and Cuba in the aftermath of the 1959 Cuban revolution. The exhibit focuses on print and film materials produced during the sixties and seventies following the Cuban Missile Crisis. The exhibit takes on special significance as US-Cuban relations have warmed under President Obama’s current administration.
The exhibit will open in mid-January on the third floor of Moffitt Library in the display case across from the elevators.
Liladhar Pendse (Slavic and East European Studies Librarian) and Carlos Delgado (Librarian for Latin American Collection) co-curated the exhibit. Library Exhibits Coordinator, Aisha Hamilton, designed it.
Please note: The Moffitt Library, including the exhibit, is only open to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.
New Exhibition: The Grandeur of a Great Labor: The Building of the Panama Canal and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
October 21, 2015 – February 26, 2016
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm
With highlights from the rich collections of The Bancroft Library, the exhibition examines the building of the Panama Canal and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the fair that celebrated the canal?s opening and the rise of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Exploring the grand endeavors of both enterprises, this centennial exhibition illustrates the global impact of the canal and of San Francisco?s emergence on the national and world stage, as well as the broad human effort that was required to realize both achievements.
Orpheu and the Avant-Garde Poetry conference
An all-day conference commemorating the Portuguese literary journal Revista Orpheu will take place this Friday, October 16 at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. An exhibition will follow.