Events & Exhibits

In this exhibit the range of bindings produced by publishers from the period 1820-1920 show the changes of style, materials, production and purpose. In Suzzallo 102, the largest element of the exhibit, the display is arranged by artistic style, heavily focused on known designers. The display case on the first floor of Allen Library features the work of two important women designers of the late 19th C., Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Armstrong. The display cases in the Special Collections lobby [basement of Allen Library] show a chronology of bindings, illustrating the overlap of styles over time.

Date/Time: through December 19, 2007
Location: Suzzallo Library room 102, Allen Library North Mezzanine, Special Collections Lobby

UW professor Nate Mantua will provide a lecture on climate change science and projected impacts on the Pacific Northwest. This event is the second of three "Libraries Speaker Series" talks highlighting research related to climate change.

Date/Time: November 7, 2007; 1:30 - 2:20 pm
Location: Allen Library Auditorium

VIETNAM FILM FESTIVAL, SYMPOSIUM, AND BOOK LAUNCH

Date/Time: 10/22/07:1.30 - 8.30 pm; 10/23/07: 2.00- 8.30pm
Location: Ethnic Cultural Theater, UW Campus

This month's Focus on... exhibit showcases the Libraries' collection of books about climate change. The display is one of several UW Libraries' tie-ins with the 2007 Common Book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and the display addresses climate change across multiple disciplines.

Date/Time: October 1 - November 1, 2007
Location: Allen North Lobby

Learn about some great new resources from the Health Sciences Library you can use from your own computer, see new clinical support and personal information management products, visit with the UW Police Crime Prevention Unit, enjoy light refreshments, and enter to win great door prizes!

Date/Time: October 11, 11am-3pm
Location: T-334 Health Sciences Building

Professor Tetsuji Atsuji, Kyoto University, will talk about the history of Chinese characters and how the Japanese writing system evolved. The lecture includes a demonstration of calligraphy by Mr. Hirokazu Kosaka, Artistic Director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles, California.

The East Asia Library, housed in Gowen Hall at the University of Washington, will have calligraphy from Japan, Korea, and China on display through the end of fall quarter. This event is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the East Asia Library University of Washington Libraries, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, and Kyoto University with the support of the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle.

Reservations recommended as seating is limited. R.S.V.P. to ealib@u.washington.edu.

Date/Time: Thursday, October 4, 2007; 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library, room 220

Ever wondered what exactly is in the Constitution? Come to the Libraries second annual "America Reads the Constitution" event. You may be surprised at the familiarity or newness of this historic text as dozens of readers bring it to life.

Date/Time: Friday, October 12, 12:00-1:30pm
Location: Suzzallo Library, Third Floor (outside the Main Reading Room)

This web page describes orientation events taking place at the Libraries or in which the Libraries is participating during Dawg Daze orientation week.

Date/Time: Sept. 21 - Sept. 28
Location: various locations

A display highlighting articles and books related to climate modeling and climate predictions from the Natural Sciences Library's collection.

Date/Time: 9/10/07 - 12/14/07
Location: Natural Sciences Library (Allen South Library)

Symbols of the American West.

Date/Time: July 16, 2007 - August 5, 2007
Location: Allen North Lobby

"Rachel Carson Centennial Birth Year Commemoration, 2007" is the title of the Natural Sciences Library's Topics Table display for Summer Quarter 2007. The display features books by and about Ms. Carson from the Natural Sciences Library collection as well as current articles from the news, from serials, and websites. "A Rachel Carson Bibliography of UW Libraries Holdings" was prepared and it is available both on our website at http://www.lib.washington.edu/natsci/topics/ and in print on the Topics Table, Ground Floor, Allen South, the Natural Sciences Library.

The June Focus On... display highlights poetry and works of fiction by Native Americans. Materials such as interviews, correspondences, artists' personal statements, and autobiographical publications are included as well. The majority of the publications are recent. In addition to the books, the display also features a loan from the Burke museum, which is a print based on an art piece from their current exhibit, In the Spirit of the Ancestors.

Date/Time: through July 2, 2007
Location: Allen Library, North Lobby

AT RANDOM II, is the UW Photographers Group's second exhibition in OUGL. For this display, the photographers ventured into the world to reshape it, remake it, and reform it, using light, glass, paper, silver, dyes, zeros and ones. Works by 14 photographers are displayed in the lobby, open reserves wall, photograph display cases, west wall, 2nd floor display wall, 3rd floor display wall and hanging from the third floor balcony. The exhibition runs from May 1 to June 30.

Date/Time: through June 30
Location: throughout Odegaard Undergraduate Library

Join SALA as local artists, writers, and librarians come together to remember the life and works of this great humorist and humanist. Featuring:

• Deborah Jacobs, City Librarian, Seattle Public Library
• Wendy Call and Cody Walker, Writers in Residence, Richard Hugo House
• Megan Sukys, Senior Host, The Beat, KUOW
• Christopher Frizzelle, Arts and Books Editor, The Stranger
• David Wright, Fiction Librarian, Seattle Public Library
• John Marshall, Book Critic, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Nick Licata, Seattle City Council President

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Space is limited, so please register by visiting http://students.washington.edu/sala. For more information, contact bkinney@u.washington.edu.

Date/Time: Monday, May 14 at 6pm
Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library, room 220

This exhibit highlights some of the materials in the library collection relating to connections between Shakespeare and music. Music in the plays, musical stage directions, and some of the music inspired by the plays.

Date/Time: May, 2007
Location: Allen North Lobby

Between the Land and the Sea is the title of an exhibit marking the sesquicentennial of English prose writer Joseph Conrad - author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and other famous works - who was born in Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1857 as Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski. The exhibit remains on display in the Suzzallo cafe, room 101 Suzzallo Library, now through May 12. A public lecture about Conrad's life and works is scheduled for Thursday, May 3rd 2007 at 7:30pm in Room 110 Kane Hall. This exhibit was prepared by the Museum of Literature in Warsaw and organized by the UW Polish Studies Committee, the Polish Home Foundation in Seattle and the Consulate of Poland in Los Angeles.

Date/Time: through May 9, 2007
Location: Suzzallo Library, room 101

Pepper Schwartz will deliver the keynote speech at Friends of the UW Libraries "Literary Voices",where guests dine at tables with authors, Saturday, April 21, 6 pm at the University of Washington Club. Other authors hosting tables include: Greg Bear, Michael Biggins, Mark Jenkins, Laura Kastner, David Montgomery, Joel Migdal, Jeffrey Oschner, Nancy Pearl, Maya Sonenberg, Woodruff Sullivan III, Indu Sundaresan, Solveig Torvik, and David Wagoner. Proceeds from the dinner will support University Libraries preservation, Libraries Research Awards for Undergraduates, and collection enhancement. Advance tickets, $110 each, can be purchased by calling (206) 616-8397 or emailing uwlibs@u.washington.edu For more information, visit the UW Libraries events web page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/support/ Pepper Schwartz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. Dr. Schwartz has received many awards, including the Matrix Award for Achievement in Education and the International Women's Forum Award in Career Achievement in Washington State. She is the author of 14 books, including popular books such as: The Great Sex Weekend, The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book, Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong and Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character with Dominic Cappello, and 201 Question to Ask Your Kids / 201 Questions to Ask Your Parents.

Date/Time: April 21, 2007. 6pm
Location: UW Club

'Poetic Spaces' is a photo essay on urban youth in Calcutta's social and economic margins. It will be on display in Odegaard Libary's lobby, and first and second floor display areas, from March 16 to April 30. The 26 photographs show adolescents who are living in either a red-light area youth collective or a juvenile shelter for at-risk youths. They are all participants in the creative writing program "Kalam: Margins Write", and alongside the photographs are examples of their poetry. The poetry captures these young poets in their everyday moments, moods, habits, landscapes, routines, chores, addictions, rebellions and dreams.

Date/Time: through April 30
Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library