Link: http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/pt.html

Past Tents: The Way We Camped Edited by Susan Snyder

From the award-winning author of Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly comes this lighter look at Americans’ infatuation with the great outdoors. Mining once again the vast archives at The Bancroft Library, Susan Snyder has mapped out this cheeky yet accurate history of camping in the West.

Full of photographs and descriptions of family outings in the first years of the automobile, of campgrounds and campfires against the familiar backdrop of the Sierra Nevada, of the remarkable gear and "helpful" hints that accompanied outings to our newly minted state and national parks and forests, Past Tents is a humorous romp through one of our favorite pastimes. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, it’s the perfect gift for anyone who’s ever been in the thrall of redwoods, s’mores, and Smokey the Bear.

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Link: http://www.signaturebooks.com/bancroft.htm

Co-edited by Charles Faulhaber and Stephen Vincent.

In this centennial guide, readers are introduced to the day-to-day life of an institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and study of original documents. From an in-depth look at the way material is acquired and conserved to chapters by individual curators on the history and highlights of the collections entrusted to their care, Exploring the Bancroft Library celebrates Bancroft's one hundred years on the Berkeley campus.

View Table of Contents:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/friends/exploring_contents.pdf

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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California
2626 Bancroft Way
December 3, 2006

Panel Discussion
Ira Nowinski's San Francisco: Poets, Politics, & Divas
Theater Lower Level
3:00pm

Panelists
Ira Nowinski, Photographer
Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday Books
Rebecca Solnit, Author
Jack von Euw, Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library

Ira Nowinski has been photographing San Francisco's opera divas, tenant organizers, and North Beach poets since 1970. His work speaks eloquently of dignity, courage, and everday life. In this final program commemorating The Bancroft Library's centennial exhibition, we celebrate his deeply humanist photography and the latest publishing collaboration between The Bancroft Library and Heyday Books, Ira Nowinski's San Francisco.

Book Signing
Main Lobby
4:30pm

Exhibition's Closing Reception
Gallery B
5:00pm

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/anthro/

At the turn of the twentieth century, academic programs in anthropology in America were flourishing in Cambridge, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. There was intense interest in the extraordinary anthropological riches of California but no academic program dedicated to discovering, interpreting, and curating them.

The Foundations of Anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1960, based on an exhibit in the Bancroft Library Gallery, January 21 – April 29, 2002, tells the story of the key individuals and events driving the establishment of an academic program in 1901 that within a few decades achieved worldwide stature. The exhibit draws on the extensive collection of records, documents, and images held by The Bancroft Library including departmental records and faculty papers. A few items have been lent by other institutions, most notably -- a special feature of the online exhibit -- several audio and video clips provided by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

The online exhibit was created by David Farrell and Andrew Hon, with special technical assistance provided by Gary Handman in the Library’s Media Resources Center, Erica Nordmeier in Bancroft’s Photographic Duplication division, and Sally Thomas in the University of California History Digital Archive.

Foundations of Anthropology at the University of California Digital Exhibit:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/anthro/

Link: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/fbg/contents.html

On December 20, 2005, the UC Berkeley Library inaugurated its digital exhibit of materials from its Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Collection at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/fbg/contents.html. This collection contains over 1,600 books, manuscripts and pictorial items, mostly from the 17th century, which document the activities of Germany's first literary society, and is housed in The Bancroft Library.

In August 1617 a small group of Saxon nobles gathered in Castle Hornstein near Weimar to establish a type of institution previously unknown on German soil, the literary society. It was based on the Italian model of the previous century, and specifically on the Accademia della Crusca of Florence, to whose ranks one its founding members, Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, had been elected in 1600. Ludwig was the chief benefactor and the head of this new German society until his death in 1650, and he and its other founding members sought inspiration in their pursuit of learning from the many Italian literary societies which had contributed so much to the purification and normalization of Italian letters in the sixteenth century.

The new German society was called the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, the Fruitbearing Society, and its motto was "Alles zum Nützen" -- "Everything for a purpose." As had its Italian precursors, the German society saw its principal role in the elaboration of language standards for the vernacular, including spelling and grammatical norms but also tending against the use of foreign words and phrases. It also promoted the use of German as a literary and scholarly language by the attention it focussed on important new works of German scholarship and literature, and by its active role in publishing these works through most of the 17th century.

The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Collection Digital Exhibit was created by James H. Spohrer, UC Berkeley's Librarian for the Germanic Collections, with technical assistance from Brooke Dykman of the Library's Digital Projects Office. It was made possible by generous financial support from IDC Publishers and by Berkeley's Institute of European Studies.

Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Collection Digital Exhibit:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/fbg/contents.html