Mar 27 2008
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Mar 26 2008
See the new issue of Library News for UF Faculty, Volume 18, No. 3, Spring (March) 2008.
Mar 18 2008
The sixth annual Read-A-Thon will take place April 14-17 on the Plaza of the Americas and the second annual Edible Book Contest will be Wednesday, April 16.
For details and to sign up to read or enter the contest, see http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/readathon.
Mar 13 2008
The Center for Latin American Studies and the George A. Smathers Libraries will present “Visions of Bahia, Brazil From the Collection of Frances F. Switt” Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:30 p.m. in the Friends of Music Room in the University Auditorium. Dean Judy Russell will welcome attendees and Paul Losch, librarian, Latin American Collection, will speak on the collection. For complete details on the program and reception. More information.
Mar 13 2008
Beate Sirota Gordon, who helped write Japan’s new constitution after the end of WWII, will speak at UF on March 24 in Turlington L07, from 6-8 p.m. The program is presented by the Association for Asian Studies, the George A. Smathers Libraries and the Department of Asian Studies. There is no charge and the public is invited to attend.
Gordon grew up in Japan before WWII. She became fluent in Japanese (and four other languages). She returned to Japan at the war’s end, and became a member of Douglas MacArthur’s staff. She was asked by General MacArthur to serve on a committee to write a new constitution for Japan. The committee did just that, in nine days, using only resources available in Japan. Gordon was 22 at the time, and the only woman on the committee. The new constitution gave legal rights to Japanese women for the first time and has remained essentially unchanged since then. Gordon will talk about her experiences in Japan, the impact of the constitution and the importance of activism. For more information, call Hikaru Nakano at Smathers Libraries, 273-2727, or Pat Bartlett at Asian Studies, 392-2464.