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This event is free and open to the public.
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 from 4:00 to 6:00
A campus meet and greet reception featuring wines by Rouge Cellars, Creston,
IL.
This is an invitation-only event.
Pizza with an Author: E.E. Knight
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 7:00 pm
Pizza Villa "Party Room," 824 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb
Join us for pizza and a lively discussion with SF author E.E. Knight about
his book Choice
of the Cat, the April selection for the DeKalb Public Library's Destination
Wonder SF Book Club.
Co-Sponsored by the Friends of the DeKalb Public Library
Appearing authors include:
Libby Fischer Hellmann, the author of 5 novels; she writes the Ellie Forman series, and her most recent novel is Easy Innocence.
Jack Fredrickson writes the Vlodek (Dek) Elstrom series of crime novels. His first novel, A Safe Place for Dying, was nominated for a Shamus Award. His most recent novel, Honestly Dearest, Your’e Dead was released in February 2009, and was positively reviewed by both the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Michael Allen Dymmoch is the author of 9 novels, including his most recent, M.I.A.
Barbara D'Amato’s most recent book, Death of a Thousand Cuts, was published in 2004. She writes a mystery series starring Chicago freelance investigative reporter Cat Marsala, a series starring Chicago patrol cops Suze Figueroa and Norm Bennis, and standalone novels. She has won numerous reader’s choice awards, an Agatha, an Anthony, and a Mary Higgins Clark Award for her work.
Sam Reaves is the author of five crime novels. His forthcoming novel, Mean Town Blues, will be available in January 2010. His most recent novel, Homicide 69, was selected by Barbara Fister as one of her Crime Fiction Top Ten in 2007.
2:00-4:30 pm, Ellwood House Carriage House
Refreshments by Sweet
Dreams Desserts
This event is free and open to the public
Book Appraisal Fair
Sunday, May 3, 2009
11 am-2 pm
Rare Books and Special Collections Department
Once again, appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of ;Thomas J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago Rare Book Center, who appeared on HGTV's Appraisal Fair program, and William Butts, of Main Street Fine Books, in Galena, IL. Mr. Butts, who has appeared on PBS's "History Detectives," has extensive experience with appraising ephemera and autographs.
Individual appraisals cost $10 per title.
Members of the Friends receive their first three appraisals for free, and subsequent appraisals at the discounted rate of $5 each.
We will gladly accept new Friends memberships on-site.
Please Join Us!
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: A 3-D Virtual Tour
Presented by Lisa M. Snyder,
Architectural historian at UCLA.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:30 pm
Holmes Student Center-Regency Room
Join us as Lisa Snyder walks us through a 3-dimensional reconstruction of the
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Friends of the NIU Libraries
An evening with Peter
Sagal, host of NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't
Tell Me"
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Friends
Tuesday, October 28,
2008, 7:00 pm
Barsema Alumni & Visitor's Center
Hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
Cost: $25
Mr. Sagal will give a short talk, and will also be signing copies of his most recent book, The Book of Vice.
Tickets may be purchased by calling: 815-753-8091; if space
permits, tickets will also be available at the door.
Second Annual Faculty Wine Tasting
Marshall Gallery, Swen Parson Hall
Thursday, September 11 from 4:30 to 6:30
A meet and greet reception featuring wines by Rouge Cellars, Creston, IL.
Annual Meeting and Ice Cream Social
Thursday, July 17th
from 3-4:30
Rare Books and Special Collections, Founders' Library 4th floor.
There will be a short business meeting, including elections. This is also an opportunity to meet our new Dean, Patrick Dawson.
For further information, please call (815) 753-8091.
"Emersonian Borrowings: Sufi Poetry in
19th-Century America"
Presented by Dr. Jeffrey Einboden,
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 pm
Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge
Dr. Einboden will discuss the evolution of Ralph Waldo Emerson's translations
of Sufi poetry.
The Friends
of the NIU Libraries is sponsoring our 2nd Annual Book Appraisal Fair.
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 12-4 pm, in the Heritage Room at the Holmes Student Center
on the NIU Campus.Once again, appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of ;Thomas
J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago
Rare Book Center, who appeared on HGTV's Appraisal Fair program, and
William Butts, of Main Street
Fine Books, in Galena, IL, who has extensive experience with appraising
ephemera.
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893"
CANCELLED - will be rescheduled
Presented by Lisa M. Snyder,
Architectural historian at UCLA.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 7:30 pm
Holmes Student Center-Sky Room
"The Interpersonal Intelligence of Abraham Lincoln"
Presented by Robert Cotner,
Independent Scholar and member of the Caxton Club.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007, 7:30 pm
Founders Memorial Library; Lower Level Staff Lounge
"Schoolhouse Memories: from Sawdust to Quilt"
Dr. Lucy Townsend,
curator of the Blackwell History of Education Museum,
will discuss memory making as related to local country schools.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007, 7:30 pm
Founders Memorial Library; Lower Level Staff Lounge
"Lincoln and Black Hawk"
Film screening and discussion with the director of the film,
Dr. Jeffrey Chown
Professor, NIU Department of Communication
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006, 7:00 pm
Diversions Lounge, Holmes Student Center
Click here for
additional information about the film.
Yule Ball
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Altgeld Hall
Co-Sponsored by External Programming,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
and the Friends of the NIU Libraries
In conjunction with the Mini
Winter Muggle Academy
Book Appraisal Fair
Sunday, March 18, 2007, 1-5 pm
Marshall Gallery, Swen Parson Hall. Appraisers:
Thomas Joyce, of Thomas
J. Joyce & Company and The Chicago
Rare Book Center,
formerly of HGTV's "The Appraisal Fair" program
and
Bill Butts, of Main Street Fine
Books, Galena, IL
A Trip to the Newberry Library
Sponsored by the Friends of NIU Libraries
Saturday, November 5th, 9:00 am to 5 pm
To view the exhibit: Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
Editing History: The Griffith Letters and the Civil War
Joan Metzger
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
Wednesday, November 9th, 7:30 pm
An Evening With Jill Thompson and Brian Azzarello
Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor, Founders' Library
Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 pm
Jill Thompson is the artist and writer of Scary Godmother, as well as one of the contributing
artists to Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
Brian Azzarello is the writer of 100 Bullets and Hellblazer, as well as runs on Superman and Batman.
Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court
Artemus Ward, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
Thursday, January 19th, 7:30 pm
Charity With a Vengeance: The Politics of Mardi Gras in Cajun Louisiana
Dr. Carl Lindner, University of Houston
Co-sponsored with the Center for Research on Festive Culture
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Thursday, March 9, 5:00 pm
What You Really Need To Know About Oil in the Middle East
Mark P. Fischer, Department of Geology
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 pm
Iris, You and Me: A visual presentation on the influence of the English author and philosopher, Iris Murdoch.
Mary-Glynn Boies, artist
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
Wednesday, April 19, 7:30 pm
Friends Annual Business Meeting and Ice Cream Social
Wednesday, July 12th, 3:30-5:00 pm
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
Polarization of Voters in the 2004 Election?
Barbara Burrell, Associate Director of the NIU Public Opinion Laboratory
Thursday, September 14th, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Founders Memorial Library, Staff Lounge (Lower Level)
Social Change as Reflected in the Sheet Music of World War I
Lee Schreiner
Thursday, November 11th, 7:30 p.m.
Rare Books and Special Collections, Founders Library 402
The Shadow of Philip K. Dick
Stephen Wright
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge (Lower Level)
The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Memory
Prof. Anis Contractor
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge (Lower Level)
An Evening with Einstein in the Library: The First Beautiful Mind (A World Year of Physics
Celebration)
Dr. Carol Thompson, Professor, NIU Physics department "When did modern physics enter the learning curve?"
Dr. Harold Brown, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, NIU Philosophy Dept. "Relativity and Relativism: Some Misconceptions"
Dr. Roger Dixon, Fermi National Laboratory
"The Special Theory of Relativity in the Laboratory and in the Imagination"
Monday, May 2, 2005, 7:30 pm.
Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge (Lower Level)
Sponsors: Northern Illinois University Libraries; The Friends of the NIU Libraries; NIU Physics Department
Friends Annual Business Meeting and Ice Cream Social
Thursday, June 2nd, 4:00 pm
Founders' Library Staff Lounge, Lower Level
At 5:00 pm, Neil Shalin, Author of
Out by a Step: The 100 Best Players NOT in the Baseball Hall of Fame
will give a short talk.
Mr. Shalin will be available to sign copies of his book.
Experiences in Afghanistan in a Surgical Team
Dr. John Dirk Wassner
September 19th, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Terwilliger Auditorium, Montgomery Hall
The Prairie
Verlyn Klinkenborg
October 16th, 2003, 7:30 p.m. Founders Library Staff Lounge
Founders Online: An Introduction to Electronic Resources
Mary Munroe
November 19th, 2003, 7:30 p.m. FML Smart Classroom, Room 297
Therapeutic Cloning and Public Policy
Prof. Andrea Bonnicksen
February 18th, 2004, 7:30 p.m. Founders Library Staff Lounge
From DeKalb to the Moon and Beyond
Emil Schiesser
March 3, 2004, 7:30 p.m. Engineering Building Auditorium, EB 101
Collecting George Eliot
William Baker
September 10th, 2002 7:30 p.m., FML Staff Lounge
Friends Open House
November 12th, 2002, 7:30 p.m.
Meet Room 400, Founders Memorial Library, Exit to the left of the elevator (Fourth Floor)
Come and see the new Regional History Center and basement facilities!
Novelist Richard Powers
Richard Powers
February 27th, 2003, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Web sites on Richard Powers:
Richard Powers, American Novelist
University of Illinois Fiction Faculty
Review in The Salon
Cinematic Authorship, Films of Robert Altman
Bob Self
April 10th, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Ice Cream Social
Friday, April 25th, 2003
Rare Books and Special Collections, Founders Memorial Library
History of NIU Libraries
David Hamilton
October 17, 2001, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library (Lower Level)
Thirsting After Righteousness: What We Did and Didn't Learn From Prohibition
David Kyvig
November 13, 2001, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
History of NIU
Presenter: William Monat
February 21, 2002, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Dirk Johnson, Midwest Editor of Newsweek
April 10, 2002, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Annual Book Sale
April 16-18, 2002, Lobby, Founders Memorial Library
Ice Cream Social
Featuring Ollie's Frozen Custard
Friday, April 26, 2002, 3:00 pm. Rare Books and Special Collections
Nelson Algren: Chicago, the Radical Vision
Dr. James Giles
September 20, 2000, 7:30 pm, Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
The Art of Book Binding and Preserving
Matt Eggleston
October 18, 2000, 7:30 pm, Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
History of Illinois Valleys
Mr. Steve Stout
February 21, 2001, 7:00 pm, Ellwood House, DeKalb
Dessert buffet provided by Country Inn Restaurant
The First American Civil War: Violence in the Countryside, 1775-1783
Dr. Allan Kulikoff
April 11, 2001, 7:30 pm,
Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Annual Book Sale
April 17-19, 2001, obby, Founders Memorial Library
Ice Cream Social
April 27, 2001, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., Rare Books & Special Collections
Reader
Beware: Fakes and Forgeries
Dr. Craig Abbott
September 16, 1999, 7:30 p.m.,
Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Your Old Books in the Attic: Appraise Antiquarian Books
Mr. Thomas Joyce
October 21, 1999, 7:30 p.m., Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
How Did a Hero of the American Revolution Come to Sycamore, Illinois?
Mr. Thomas Woodstrup
February 21, 2000, 6:00 p.m. (self-pay dinner buffet)
Country Inn Restaurant, 2496 DeKalb Avenue, Sycamore, Illinois
Dinner Buffet
Henry Thoreau in the Library
Dr. Beth Witherell
April 12, 2000, 7:30 p.m. Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library
Annual Book Sale
April 18-20, 2000. Lobby, Founders Memorial Library
(April 18 is Friends' Preview Night and is open to Friends' members only.
Please call (815) 753-9838 for information on joining the Friends)
Ice Cream Social
April 28, 2000
Carpetbags of Culture: Travel Books by American Women
Mary S. Schriber
Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 7:30pm
Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library (Lower Level)
American Women and Foreign Policy Between Wars
Martin Dubin
Wednesday, October 28, 1998, 7:30pm
Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library (Lower Level)
Grave Robbing in DeKalb County
Ronald Klein
Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 7:00pm
Country Inn Restaurant, Sycamore
The New Vietnam
Clark Neher
Thursday, April 15, 1999, 7:30pm
Staff Lounge, Founders Memorial Library (Lower Level)
Annual Book Sale
April 20-22, 1999, Lobby, Founders Memorial Library
Ice Cream Social
April 30, 1999
Thank you for your generous support!
Last Updated:September 8, 2009