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: Exhibit: Nothing Unattempted: The Voyages of Captain James Cook
When: Through December 31
Where: T.R. Anderson Gallery
Free and open to the public.

Noted British navigator and explorer James Cook was a man of many "firsts." He was the first British commander to circumnavigate the globe in a single vessel, the first known European to visit the Hawaiian Islands, the first European to land on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He forever influenced naval life by actively preventing scurvy among his seamen, and his astronomical observations contributed significantly to modern knowledge of the solar system. Explore the fascinating career of the man who left "nothing unattempted."

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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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