CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTONAnnual Meeting – Open to the Public 
June 1, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
Pollak Library, Conference Room 360. The meeting includes a review of the year’s achievements and election of officers. The featured speaker is Dr. Rick Lozinsky, a professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at Fullerton College. He is the author of The Fascinating World of Orange County Geology and will speak on this subject. For more information, contact Dorothy Heide at dheide@fullerton.edu.
The 2007 meeting featured a lecture and visual displays from the Boswell Map collection while at the 2006 meeting Leon Leyson spoke of his experience as the youngest survivor on Schlindler’s List.
Book Discussion Group
September 2007 to May 2008
Pollak Library Conference room, Library South 260C. The group meets the fourth Thursday of each the month, September-November and January-May, 3:00-5:00 p.m. For two consecutive months, one of the members selects a book and leads discussion about it. In the third month, each person may select his/her own book and give a brief report. Recent selections for the discussion include Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and The Road, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. For information, contact Herb Rutemiller at hrutemiller@fullerton.edu.
Ongoing Book Sale
September 2007 to May 2008
Pollak Library South 199. The Book Sale Center is open three days per week during the Academic year as follows:
Tuesdays, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursdays, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. A wide variety of non-fiction, fiction, periodicals, records and tapes are available. For information, contact jpollak@fullerton.edu. Donations can be made at the Book Sale Center, the collection chest near the Titan Card Desk or by contacting Lorraine Seelig, (714)278-2182, lseelig@fullerton.edu.
Library and Book-Related Tours - Open to the Public
Thursday November 8, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
The A.K. Smiley Library in Redlands will be toured. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and features Moorish-style stone arches, stained-glass windows and carved gargoyles. There is also a conservatory reading room and two outdoor garden areas. The Lincoln Memorial Shrine will also be visited. It is located behind the library and is the only museum and archives west of the Mississippi River dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Its extensive collection of manuscripts, diaries, images and artifacts is maintained by the Special Collections Division of the Smiley Library. For information, contact
Jane Iacovetti, 714-278-2959.
Patrons Lecture Series - Open to the Public
Sunday January 27, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Pollak Library, room 130
Jim Newton, Editorial Page Editor of the Los Angeles Times, is the first speaker of the series. He joined the Times in 1989, after having worked for The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Newton shared in the Times’ Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In 2006, he authored Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, which chronicles the life of the former California governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice who presided over landmark decisions on segregation, the right to privacy and school prayer.
Sunday February 24, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Pollak Library, room 130
Barry Glassner, Professor of Sociology and Executive Vice Provost at the University of Southern California is the speaker at this lecture. He has been featured in many articles and was interviewed by Michael Moore in the film Bowling for Columbine. Several of Dr. Glassner’s books written in the past few years deal with fear and misplaced anxieties. They include The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things and The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong.
Sunday March 30, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Pollak Library, room 130
D.J. Waldie is our final speaker. He is a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and author of reviews and commentaries in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He writes frequently about Los Angeles and its suburbs. His book Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles was named one of the best books of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, 1996 and 2005, received the California Book Award for nonfiction in 1996. Its subject is Lakewood, where Waldie became the Public Information Officer in 1977.