What: Kerlan Collection's 60th Anniversary
When: Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library Exhibit Gallery
Free and open to the public.

Opening Reception
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
120 Elmer L. Andersen Library

Featuring writer, literary historian, and children's literature critic Leonard S. Marcus

RSVP for reception by November 6 at stangret@umn.edu or 612-624-9339.

Sixty years ago, Dr. Irvin Kerlan donated his collection of children's books to the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kerlan chose what was best and representative of each current year and, when he could afford it, bought children's classics and past Newbery winners. Soon he began pursuing the background material that went into making the books, writing letters to authors and illustrators, and they replied by forwarding their original manuscripts, artwork, and selected correspondence with editors and children. From the halls of a Washington, D.C., brownstone to the caverns of the University, the Kerlan Collection now contains over 110,000 children's books, as well as original manuscripts, artwork, galleys, and color proofs for more than 18,000 titles.

Join us as we commemorate sixty years as one of the world's greatest children's literature research collections.

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What: Mixed Media, an evening with Lewis H. Lapham
When: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:30 pm
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public.

Reservations requested by November 25 at 612-624-9339 or stangret@umn.edu.

The New York Times has likened him to H.L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain, and best-selling author Tom Wolfe compared him to Montaigne.

Lewis Lapham is Editor Emeritus of Harper's Magazine and the Founding Editor of Lapham's Quarterly, a journal of the history of ideas. The author of thirteen books, among them Theater of War and Money and Class in America, Mr. Lapham is the host of Bloomberg Radio's weekly program, "The World in Time."

On December 3rd, Lapham's speech "Mixed Media" will account for the tribulations of the printed word in the wilderness of cyberspace. Dessert reception and book signing follows, with books available for sale courtesy of the University of Minnesota Bookstores.

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What: First Fridays: Virtue & Vice in the Stacks
When: Friday, December 4, 2009 • noon - 1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public.

Greed
"Please sir, I want some more!" So said Oliver Twist, Dickens' famous orphan. The master of the orphanage considered Oliver to be greedy; to Oliver, more gruel was a necessity. Greed--its definition, interpretation, and impact--is the focus of this First Fridays presentation. Join us as we take you from piracy to slavery, from exploration to conquest, from debate to debate about greed.

Liberality
Tzedakah is a Hebrew term meaning "righteous giving." American Jewish communities have an imperative to be generous in pursuit of the common good. The presentation will outline the legacy of a century and a half of local liberality.

Thrift
In a related topic, the Kautz Family YMCA Archives will present on thrift. In 1916 the YMCA began a concerted effort with various partners to promote thrift. The thrift movement sought to inform Americans of the virtues of being fiscally prudent through a variety of formats including articles, cartoons, exhibits, public lectures and mass advertisement.

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What: First Fridays: Virtue & Vice in the Stacks
When: Friday, November 6, 2009 • noon - 1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public.

Abstinence & Gluttony
Food, drugs, bathing, drink, and sex have been integral in the interpretation of disease and the recommendations for cures for centuries. What may be moderate and good in one century is gluttony in another. This presentation will look at various interpretations represented in the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology & Medicine.

Gluttony
Information storage capacity, processing power, bandwidth - the computer industry continuously produces more powerful products, but it never seems to be enough. The Charles Babbage Institute will examine society's appetite for computers capable of doing more and doing it faster.

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What: Celebrating 40 Years
African American Studies & American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota
When: Through December 5, 2009
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public.

Opening Reception
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
120 Andersen Library

4:30 p.m. program featuring remarks by:

Nancy "Rusty" Barceló
Vice President & Vice Provost, Office for Equity & Diversity

Carolyn (Carrie) Schommer
Retired Dakota Instructor, Department of American Indian Studies

John S. Wright
Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor, Departments of African American & African Studies and English

In 1969 the University of Minnesota established the African American and American Indian Studies Departments, the second and first such departments respectively to be founded in the United States. To celebrate the anniversary of this historic event, the University Libraries, with the African American Studies Department and the American Indian Studies Department, have put together a display of archival materials commemorating 40 years of history.

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What: Exhibit: Muslim Spain: Conquest, Expulsion, Legacy, 711-2009
When: Through Friday, October 30, 2009
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library Exhibit Gallery
Free and open to the public.

The conquest of the Iberian peninsula by Arab Muslims altered the cultural trajectory of Spain and separated from its European neighbors for more than 700 years. Yet, when their Catholic majesties Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Christian reconquest of the peninsula in 1492, the story of the Muslims in Spain had several chapters still to be written. This exhibition acknowledges 2009 as the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos (Muslim converts to Catholicism) from all Spanish lands and celebrates the enduring cultural legacy of al-Andalus.

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