- Kerlan Award Luncheon & Ceremony
Who: Karen Nelson Hoyle, Kerlan Award recipient
When: Saturday, May 5, 2012
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Kerlan Award Luncheon
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Enjoy a buffet lunch with other Kerlan Friends, teachers, librarians, children's literature aficionados, and our esteemed guests.
Cost: $25 ($20 for Kerlan Friends)
Reservation is required by April 23
Download the registration form
Ceremony
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Karen Nelson Hoyle will be presented with the 2012 Kerlan Award at a ceremony in Andersen Library. Hoyle, who retired on January 11, 2012 after forty plus years of dedicated service, has been an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor to countless people who are interested in and passionate about children's literature and the people who create books for children. She has devoted her life to continuing Dr. Kerlan's vision and making it a reality.
Cost: Free and open to the public
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, May 4, 2012 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Squee, Simon, and the Brainiac: Edmund Berkeley and
Machines That Think
Presented by the Charles Babbage Institute
Edmund Callis Berkeley, a mid-twentieth-century computer professional, mathematician, and anti-war activist, also maintained a strong interest in robotics and teaching machines. Berkeley developed machines such as the Brainiac and robots such as Simon and Squee to help teach people to think logically, based on the premise that the spread of logical thought would lead to the end of the threat of nuclear warfare. Join Charles Babbage Institute staff for a talk about this remarkable character in the CBI collections.
Dr. Justus Ohage, St. Paul Legend
Presented by the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
Truant, adventurer, veteran of the Civil War, stretcher-bearer during the Franco-Prussian War, and eventual surgeon and public health commissioner for St. Paul, Justus Ohage has left a legacy of innovation and public service. In 1900 he purchased Harriet Island for the benefit of the public and gave it to the city of St. Paul. He was an outstanding surgeon and staff member of St. Joseph Hospital, specializing in gastrointestinal procedures. This presentation will bring to light some of the accomplishments of this colorful character's personal and professional life and display some of his medical arsenal that is part of the Ramsey County Medical Society collections.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
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- 2012 Chase Lecture featuring Sy Montgomery
When: Thursday, May 3, 2012 • 4:30 p.m.
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
To research books, films, and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She has been hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels, and dolphins in the Amazon. She has searched the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi for snow leopards and hiked into the trackless cloud forest of Papua New Guinea to radiocollar tree kangaroos.
Sy's 15 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller.
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, April 6, 2012 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Pacific Explorers
Presented by the James Ford Bell Library
Several Spanish and English navigators explored the Pacific after Magellan's voyage, but this vast ocean was still largely unknown to Europeans until the 17th and 18th centuries, when Dutch, English, and French navigators sailed throughout the Pacific.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, March 2, 2012 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Building (with) Character
Presented by the Kautz Family YMCA Archives
The YMCA Archives bring you two different perspectives on the theme of characters in the collections with a look at one of its most significant buildings and at one of its most important goals. Learn about the history and symbolism of the Jerusalem International YMCA and the many character building programs the YMCA has created to develop youth. The YMCA slogan "building boys is better than mending men" reveals this philosophy which was enacted in the physical plant of the YMCA facility.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, February 3, 2012 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Collectors of African American Literature
Presented by the Givens Collection of African American Literature
The Givens Collection of African American Literature will commemorate Black History Month by examining the character of the collector. What animates the passions of the collector of African American literature? A need to document the achievements and impact of African Americans? To celebrate African American culture? A love of black books? A recent gift of rare African American literature, donated in honor of Penumbra founder and UMN theater professor Lou Bellamy, will be explored to answer these questions.
Acting Ethnic in America
Presented by the Immigration History Research Center
Immigrants "performed" ethnicity on their own community stages and in multicultural festivals, translating their values and traditions into forms readily accessed by American audiences. Classic Greek literature, Italian and Chinese opera, and Yiddish or Latvian theater allowed immigrants to create ethnic spaces on fraternal hall stages and in public venues. Events such as the Festival of Nations provided venues for the expression of homeland traditions. These ways of "acting ethnic" embody the persistence of both real and idealized memories of past experience, assisting immigrants to create and communicate their own ethnic identities.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, December 2, 2011 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Collecting Sherlockiana
Presented by the Sherlock Holmes Collections
Since he first appeared in the popular imagination, Sherlock Holmes has been the focus of a collecting mania that continues to this day. Join us as we look at a few of the best known, and loved, collectors of Sherlockiana—true characters in the best and fullest sense of the word.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, November 4, 2011 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
The WAM Files: A peek behind the scenes at the University Art Gallery
Presented by University Archives
The history of the Weisman Art Museum, from the founding of the University Art Gallery in 1934 in Northrop Auditorium through its re-opening fall 2011, is documented in over 200 boxes of correspondence, checklists, exhibit files, posters, and photographs in the University of Minnesota Archives. In 2010, two graduate students undertook a project to sort, organize, and list the materials, preparing them for future use by museum staff, faculty, students, members of the public, and an international community of scholarly researchers. Steeped in the archives, they launched the "WAM Files," a blog to share the experience of working with the files and some of the treasures they discovered. Weekly blog posts, illustrated by images and anecdotes from the files, have attracted national attention and provide a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the inner workings of the fledgling gallery and its growth into a modern museum.
Please join us for a peek into the history contained in the "WAM Files." Graduate assistants Areca Roe and Rebecca Wilson will share stories and images from the archives. Katie Covey (Weisman Museum) and Erik Moore (University Archives) will provide their perspectives on the evolution of this collaboration and next steps for promoting the museum archives.
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- Graduate Student Scholars Discuss the Future of Scholarship
What: Panel Discussion
When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
pizza at 4:30 p.m. | panel discussion 5 p.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library room 120
Free and open to the public
This event is part of Open Access Week 2011.
Graduate student scholars in education, area studies, and other fields will discuss their experiences in publishing open access journals, developing open educational resources, and other ways they share their scholarship. Speakers: Alfonso Sintjago, Megan Corbin
- Call It Character: A Selection of Stars from Archives and Special Collections
What: First Fridays series 2011–2012
When: Friday, October 7, 2011 • noon–1 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Batgirl, Nick Carter, Ramona Quimby, and Other Childhood Heroes
Presented by the Children's Literature Research Collections
CLRC staff and researchers will present the first session of this year's First Fridays series. Karen Hoyle selected "Karana" and "Ramona Quimby" as her characters, J. Randolph Cox will speak on "Nick Carter" and Meredith Gillies will discuss "Barbara Gordon: From Batgirl to Oracle & Back Again."
"One of the most popular series characters in dime novels has been Nick Carter. The adventures of the stalwart detective spanned a century, the character kept alive for the public by an ever-changing, yet immediately recognizable, appearance that was suited for his contemporary reader."
—J. Randolph Cox
From childhood superheroes to explorers of the Pacific and collectors of Sherlockiana, the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections are home to many unique characters. Join us this year as First Fridays presents a wide variety of distinctive personalities, not all of them human!
View the full season of First Fridays.
- 49th Annual James Ford Bell Lecture
When: Thursday, October 6, 2011 • 7:00 p.m.
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
Diarium Surinamicum: The Revenge of Daniel Rolander
by Dr. James Dobreff
Lund University, Sweden
Wastrel, Scoundrel, Drunkard. This has been the reputation of 18th-century naturalist Daniel Rolander, a student of the renowned Swedish botanist, Carl Linneaus. In the 49th Annual James Ford Bell Lecture, Dr. James Dobreff will set the record straight, sharing new discoveries that will forever change Rolander's place in the history of natural history.
Rolander's adventures in Surinam in 1755 resulted in the collection of numerous species of insects, flora, and fauna, yet his name was almost lost to history due to a falling out with Linneaus and a seedy reputation. Please join us as part of the very first American audience to hear Dr. Dobreff's new interpretation of this fascinating chapter in the history of discoveries.
Presented by the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library
Tickets:
$20.00; $15 for members of the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the Friends of the Andersen Horticultural Library (code JFBL11), $15 for groups of 10 or more; Free for all students (including non-U of M) with a valid student ID.
Purchase online at tickets.umn.edu or by phone at 612-624-2345 Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
A dessert reception will follow the lecture, co-sponsored by the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Friends of the Andersen Horticultural Library.
Don't miss our related exhibit, "Classified! Naturalists on the Voyages of Discovery"
- Memories of Margaret Sutton and the Judy Bolton Mysteries
When: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 • 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
The Judy Bolton Mystery series, which lasted from 1932 to 1967, is the longest lasting juvenile mystery series written by an individual author. Each book in the 38-volume series was based on something that really happened. The author's three daughters, Meg Eckstein, Eleanor Kratzat, and Lindsay Stroh, will share stories about their mother and the incidents that inspired each Judy Bolton book.
Watch a recording of the presentation.
