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39th
Annual Corle Lecture
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Author Michael Chabon will deliver the 39th annual Corle Lecture on Sunday, November 24, 2002 at 2 p.m. in
Campbell Hall. Please plan to join us for this free lecture. Chabon will sign his books after the lecture.
In 2001, Michael Chabon received the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. His other publications include Wonder Boys, and his
latest, a children's novel, Summerland, released in September 2002.
Read more about the author at: www.michaelchabon.com.
The EDWIN AND JEAN CORLE MEMORIAL lectures were begun in 1964 and
are sustained by the Edwin Corle Fund, established by Jean
Armstrong Corle in 1983. Previous lecturers include: N. Scott
Momaday, Ray Bradbury, Wallace Stegner, Denise Levertov, Sandra
Cisneros, and Walter Mosley.
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| Novelist Michael Chabon’s writing is noted for sparkling intelligence, rich imagination, ambitious plots and consummate wordplay. |
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UCSB Libraries Treasures
A Window Into the Past: Pre-1900 Maps
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What did the street layout of the city of Santa Barbara look like in 1889? What about Boston in the eighteenth and nineteenth century? Or London, England? Come to the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL) on the first floor of Davidson Library and find out!
Some of the most enjoyable maps to look at are pre–1900 maps of familiar and exotic places; they often have not only the street grid but also vignettes of buildings or persons in the margins. While original maps published prior to 1900 are generally found in the Libraries’ Special Collections Department, MIL also has a large number of facsimiles of
pre–1900 maps. Most of these are individual maps––e.g. the facsimile–map series issued by Historic Urban Plans and by the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives––but some are in atlas
form––e.g., the Historic Towns atlases of England.
MIL is in the process of retrospective cataloging its map collection; this is about 60% complete. This means that many of MIL's pre–1900 facsimiles are not yet cataloged in the Library's online catalog, Pegasus. If you don't find the maps you need in Pegasus, send MIL an email
mil@sdc.ucsb.edu, call (805/893–2779), or visit the collection.
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