2007 - 2008 Calendar

NOTE: The Library is closed on Sundays, and its reading rooms are closed on Mondays as well.


August 2007

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The Newberry Library Summer Reading Salute
Genealogy and Local History Orientation
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Reading Rooms closed




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Reading Rooms closed




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Reading Rooms closed




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Reading Rooms closed



September 2007

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Library closed for Labor Day
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Library closed for Labor Day

Wednesday Club: The Beatles in Contemporary Pop Culture
Chicago History: I&M Canal Web Exhibit

Genealogy and Local History Orientation
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Reading Rooms closed




History Meet the Author: Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln
16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Reading Rooms closed

Geographical Society of Chicago: Harm J. de Blij, Why Geography Matters

Fall Seminars Begin
Book Arts Meet the Author: Antonia Contro, Closed/Open



23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Reading Rooms closed



Literature Shakespeare Project: 50 Minute Macbeth

Literature: Banned Book Read Out, Pioneer Plaza at Michigan Ave and the Chicago River

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October 2007

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Reading Rooms closed Lyric Opera Lecture: La Bohème
Wednesday Club: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Music: The Newberry Consort

Indigenous Mexico Film Festival (at UIC)

History: Aztecs/Nahua/Mexicans: Living Documents Workshop

Music: The Newberry Consort

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Indigenous Mexico Film Festival

Music: The Newberry Consort

7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Music: The Newberry Consort Reading Rooms closed
Genealogy: Homicide in Chicago



14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Literature Meet the Author:
Ann Patchett,
Run

Reading Rooms closed






21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Reading Rooms closed Lyric Opera Lecture: Julius Caesar



Literature Shakespeare Project: Henry VI
28 29 31 31
Reading Rooms closed

November 2007

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Maps exhibit opens (at The Field Museum)

Exhibits Openings

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Cartography: Michael Conzen, Making Mapping Manifest Destiny

Cartography Panel:
Mapping American Frontiers

Maps-related lecture at The Field Museum:
GPS – Modern Mapping of Ancient
Environments

4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Chicago Humanities Festival,
The Climate of Concern

Reading Rooms closed
Wednesday Club: The Dark Side of the Universe
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography

Curators' talk on Ptolemy exhibition

Maps-related lecture at The Field Museum:
to be announced

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Reading Rooms closed

Cartography: Chicago Map Society

Maps-related lecture at The Field Museum: Bringing Maps to Chicago
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Reading Rooms closed Lyric Opera Lecture: Die Frau ohne Schatten

Library
closed for Thanksgiving
Exhibitions open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Reading Rooms closed
25 26 27 28 29 30
Reading Rooms closed

Music: The Newberry Consort

Cartography: Chicago Map Society

Music: The Newberry Consort

December 2007

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Genealogy and Local History Orientation

History Meet the Author: David Blight, A Slave No More

Music: The Newberry Consort

2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Music: The Newberry Consort Reading Rooms closed
Lyric Opera Lecture: Dr. Atomic
Wednesday Club: Changing Cookbooks



9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Reading Rooms closed
Cartography: Chicago Map Society



16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Reading Rooms closed



Exhibitions open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Reading Rooms closed
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Library closed Library closed


Exhibitions open 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Reading Rooms closed
30 31
Library closed

January 2008

S M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5
Library closed

Registration for Winter/Spring 2008 Seminars begins

Genealogy and Local History Orientation
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Reading Rooms closed
Wednesday Club: Orson Welles:
Tragic Genius of Stage and Film


Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Ricardo Padrón, The Spacious Word
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Reading Rooms closed



Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Reading Rooms closed
Literature Meet the Author: Geraldine Brooks,
People of the Book



Maps-related lecture at the Newberry: Ruth Watson, The Art of Mapping the Heart
27 28 29 30 31
Maps exhibit closes (at The Field Museum)
Reading Rooms closed Lyric Opera Lecture: Falstaff

Literature: Winter: A Time of Telling

February 2008

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Genealogy and Local History Orientation
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Reading Rooms closed
Wednesday Club: Love’s Messenger
This event has been canceled (due to the weather)


Literature: Troubadour Poems from
Southern France

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Reading Rooms closed Dance: The Dance COLEctive’s Written on the Body
Genealogy: Lithuanians in Upton Sinclair’s
The Jungle

Music: The Newberry Consort Music: The Newberry Consort

 

Literature: Shakespeare Project of Chicago:
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

Exhibit lecture: Diane Dillon, Picturing Common Ground: Mapmakers and Artists in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Exhibits: Mapping Manifest Destiny and Ptolemy's Geography close

Music: The Newberry Consort

 

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Music: The Newberry Consort Reading Rooms closed Seminars begin




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Reading Rooms closed Lyric Opera Lecture: Barber of Seville



March 2008

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Genealogy and Local History Orientation
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Reading Rooms closed

Wednesday Club: Irish Fairy Tales and Magic


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11
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15
Reading Rooms closed

Associates Appreciation Night Literature: Mystery and More Book Fair

Literature: Mystery and More Book Fair

History Meet the Author: Donald B. Smith,
Honoré Jaxon.

Exhibit lecture: Paul Saenger, Amassing Treasures: Building the Newberry's Collections

Exhibits: Newberry Recent Acquisitions exhibit opens

16 17 18 19 20
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Reading Rooms closed Literature Meet the Author: Scott Simon,
Windy City


Dance: The Seldoms’ Monument

History Meet the Author: Louise Knight, Citizen

History: Mending the Metropolis bus tour

Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions
gallery walk

23 24
25
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28
29
Reading Rooms closed
Wednesday Club: British and American
Elections in Perspective



Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions
gallery walk

30 31
Reading Rooms closed

April 2008

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Genealogy and Local History Orientation

History: The Underground Railroad in Illinois
talk and bus tour

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History: Martha Nussbaum, Liberty of Conscience


Poetry: Parisi & Welton, 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women

Music: The Newberry Consort

Music: The Newberry Consort

Caxton/ Newberry Symposium on the History
of the Book

Music: The Newberry Consort

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Music: The Newberry Consort


History: John Maxwell Hamilton and Richard C.
Longworth
, The Foreign Correspondent



Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions
gallery walk

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Literature: Shakespeare Project of Chicago:
As You Like It

Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions
gallery walk

27 28
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Music: The Newberry Consort benefit



May 2008

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Exhibit lecture: David Roediger, The Wobblies
as Memory and Model


Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Exhibit: Newberry Recent Acquisitions closes

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Wednesday Club: Sweet Swan of Avon

Annual Spring Benefit

Winter/Spring 2008 Seminars end



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Chicago Map Society: Mapping Sailboat Races


Architecture Tour: Chicago Commons

Architecture Tour: A Building for Books

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Architecture Tour: Chicago Commons







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Music: The Origins of Handel's Orlando

Exhibit: Chicago Calligraphy Collective's exhibition opens
Genealogy workshop: Railroad Ancestors
Genealogy workshop: Railroad Ancestors

 

June 2008

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Seminars begin

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

Chicago Calligraphy Collective's opening reception

8 9 10 11 12 13 14
History: Frank Biletz, Victoria's Britian History Meet the Author: Inspired by Nature
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Literature: Todd Bauer, All Chicago's a Stage
29 30

July 2008

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Exhibit: Chicago Calligraphy Collective's exhibition closes

Genealogy and Local History Orientation

History Meet the Author: Sally Kitt Chappell, Chicago's Urban Nature

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Associates Book Fair Preview Night
Newberry Book Fair
Newberry Book Fair

Newberry Book Fair

Bughouse Square Debates

27 28 29 30 31
Newberry Book Fair