What: Public Lecture: Forged in Fire: Reconstructing Thomas Jefferson's Library
Who: Mark Dimunation, U.S. Library of Congress
Where: Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
When: Monday, December 10, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Advance reservations are recommended. RSVP to Lanaya Stangret at 612-624-9339 or stangret@umn.edu.

A special lecture featuring Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. He'll speak about Congress's purchase of Thomas Jefferson's personal library in 1815 to replace the congressional library destroyed when the British burned Washington the previous year. When Jefferson's books arrived in Washington, the Library of Congress found its center and its impetus.