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Faulhaber, a professor of Spanish literature, could just as easily have phoned the author at her home in Marin County. You might not have Allende's number, but you can go to the Bancroft and hear the interview along with more than 1,000 other City Arts & Lectures programs to be posted by the end of November." - Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer

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Led by Tom Debley

The final Bancroft Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place on Thursday, November 19, at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Tom Debley, author of The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care (The Permanente Press, 2009) and Director of Heritage Resources at Kaiser Permanente will present a talk entitled " Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Dr. Sidney Garfield."

The innovations of Dr. Sidney Garfield, physician co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, have been raising the eyebrows, (and sometimes the hair) of traditionalists since the 1930s. Less known than co-founder, Henry J. Kaiser, this son of Russian immigrants became a major leader of twentieth-century American medicine. The Henry J. Kaiser Papers and related collections at The Bancroft Library enriched the preparation of this first-ever biography of Sidney Garfield.

Bancroft's enormous collections of Kaiser Manuscripts offer windows for insights into many dimensions of modern history. They are among our most heavily used of our collections. Discussion of innovative methods of health care could not be timelier. We invite the campus community to join us for this look at the origins of a health care system that remains central to California's health care today. Bancroft Round Tables aim to showcase the varied resources of The Bancroft Library.

The Bancroft Library and the Townsend Center present a panel discussion, "Darwin's Enduring Legacy." Featured panelists include Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology, and Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and co-curator of the exhibition "Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory" in The Bancroft Library Gallery.

Led by Rachel Brahinsky

The second Bancroft Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place at noon on Thursday, October 15 in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Rachel Brahinsky, Ph.D. candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of Geography, will give a talk entitled "The Making-­-and Unmaking--of southeast San Francisco."

A massive redevelopment program is underway in San Francisco's Bayview, Hunters Point, and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods. Isolated in the city's southeast corner, these communities have long been an outpost for industries, projects, and indeed people who were not welcome elsewhere in liberal San Francisco. What can we learn from the history of one of the last largely African American and working class parts of this wealthy, yet politically complex, town?

The campus community is welcome to join us at this presentation about this important San Francisco neighborhood which played so crucial a role in the industrial development of San Francisco. Bancroft Round Tables aim to highlight our manifold collections, many of which enable us to better envision California and understand it in its historical context.

This exhibit profiles the Bancroft Library's efforts to preserve the 3.6 million negatives of the Fang Family San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive. It highlights forty-nine of the newspaper's dramatic images of the 1934 Longshoremen's Strike that closed down San Francisco’s waterfront seventy-five years ago. It also offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of archival work funded by the Save America’s Treasures grant program and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In 2006 the Bancroft Library received the San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive from the Fang family and the Anschutz Corporation. It is a priceless visual record of the Bay Area throughout the 20th century and is the largest single gift of visual materials to the library. Its receipt more than doubled Bancroft’s photographic holdings.

Since receiving the archive, staff have been working to stabilize and preserve this irreplaceable historical record. All 3.6 million negatives have now been re-housed and placed in a cold vault maintained at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Work continues with support from the Save America’s Treasures grant program, and the collection will be open to
researchers in 2010.

The exhibit is open during the operating hours of The Bancroft Library.

Led by Jack von Euw, Curator of the Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection

Powerpoint presentation featuring highlights from the Pictorial Collection, as well as current and future collecting initiatives. The Pictorial Collection, consisting of eight million items, ranges from shipboard sketches and drawings from the early voyages of exploration to California and Alaska, major western American landscape paintings and photographs from mid 19th and early 20th centuries, and the recent donation of the San Francisco Examiner photography archive to photographs of the construction of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Led by Frances Dinkelspiel

The first Bancroft Round Table of our Fall 2009 series will take place on Thursday, September 17 at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California (St. Martin's Press, 2008) will speak about her book.

Isaias Hellman was the premier California financier of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rising from humble immigrant beginnings to the presidency of Wells Fargo bank. His story captures a pivotal moment in American history: the rise of California from a frontier economy driven by the barter of hides and the exchange of gold to an economic steam engine driving the nation. Ms. Dinkelspiel's book also offers illuminating perspectives on families, as well as about the changing social role of Jews in developing California. The Hellman family has been a prodigious benefactor of the University of California, especially The Bancroft Library.

Bancroft Round Tables aim to highlight the myriad collections of our library and to demonstrate their relevance to a full understanding of our contemporary world. The campus community is welcome to join us at this informal talk which will be rich in California historical lore.