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Dave Brubeck’s legendary album Time Out was released 50 years ago in 1959 and went on to become the first jazz album to sell over one million copies.
In recognition of the album’s 50th birthday, the Library has put together an exhibit in the library lobby featuring archival material related to the Time Out and Brubeck’s amazing career.
Begun this fall, the “Pacific Reads” book display is an ongoing exhibit that will regularly highlight a member of the campus community and a book of significance to that person.
President Don DeRosa is our first Pacific Reads feature!
Stop by the display, in the Library’s main lobby area, to find out why he recommends Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, to friends and colleagues!
Our first Library book display of the semester celebrates Latino Heritage Month, and features works in English and Spanish by and about Latinos, including books about Colombia (Former Colombian President César Gaviria on-campus 10/6!), as well as works by Junot Díaz, Isabel Allende, Rodolfo Acuña, Julia Alvarez, RigobertaMenchú (this recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will speak on campus 10/21!), Gabriel García Márquez, Adelaida Del Castillo, David Abalos, Alma Garcia and many others…For a full listing and further info., please see our LibraryThing page.These books **can** be checked out!Stop by and take a look!
The Chinese Christian Center began as the Chinese Methodist Episcopal Mission in 1905, and was a supportive part of the Stockton community for several decades. The new library lobby exhibit features photographs, newspaper clippings, and newsletters related to the Center, from the manuscript collection in Holt-Atherton Special Collections.
Throughout most of the U.S. involvement in World War II, Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to live in government internment camps. Many internees were avid baseball players and organized teams to play against local groups.
In honor of the start of the baseball season, Holt-Atherton Special Collections Department is presenting a new exhibit on baseball in the internment camps. Located in the lobby, the exhibit features camp newspaper clippings and other documents that help to tell the story of baseball in the camps.
In conjunction with the 2008 Brubeck Festival, Special Collections has released a digital collection of materials from Brubeck’s 1958 State Department sponsored tour of Europe and Asia.
“Jazz Diplomacy: Dave Brubeck’s 1958 Tour of Europe and Asia” includes extensive photographs of the tour, newspaper clippings, concert programs, and audio files of Iola Brubeck reading the travel journal written by ten-year-old Darius Brubeck during the Poland and Turkey portions of the tour.
Access to this collection, along with other digital content from Special Collections, is available at: http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu.
The library is highlighting collection resources pertaining to Black History during the month of February.
We have a great selection of books on display in the Library’s main lobby, right across from the Davey cafe. These books can be browsed over a cup of coffee in the café or checked out.
To see what books are on display, or to get information on relevant media (DVDs) owned by the Library, click here:
Pacific Visual Arts major Rachel Rajala has opened the library’s new Martin Gallery with an exhibition of anime/manga-style drawings.
The gallery is located on the second floor of the library in the large new study room behind the old Music/AV area.
Rachel describes the exhibition:
“”Live Again” is both the title of this exhibition and the Manga novel I am currently writing. I have loved Manga-style graphic novels for years now and I decided to finally write one myself. The works in this show are just a sample of the story I have created and are primarily the designs for some of my story’s main characters. My Manga novel, Live Again, is a fantasy/romance story with the vampire legend as one of its main themes. With luck I hope to have the first installment into a publisher by the end of the year. Wish me luck!”
Rom Landau: Scholar of the Islamic World is a new exhibit now available for viewing in the University main library. It chronicles Landau’s career at Pacific, as well as commemorates the 50th anniversary of Moroccan King Mohammed V’s visit to COP’s Institute of Asian Studies .
A new permanent exhibit about the life of Sanji Muto is now in the Muto Study Room in the library. Muto came to the University of the Pacific in 1885 to study English and the American method of business and education. When he returned to Japan, he became one of the most successful businessmen of the 20th century. He returned to Pacific in 1919 and established a book fund. His family reestablished the book fund in 2004 and dedicated the study room in 2006. Muto was also an artist and art collector. The exhibit includes two of his works.
