The library will be closed June 10 through June 17, so that the librarian can go to the annual Special Librarian Association conference in Philadelphia to tell other librarians how important sustainability is and to learn how to leverage taxonomies for greater effectiveness. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have items due during that week, just return them when the library reopens. If you have items due before that week, please think about returning them when the library reopens as well. If you do need to get into the library, contact Bruce DeMartini. Meanwhile, here are a few items we have added to the collection recently, some of which you might recognize because their authors spoke here at the center recently. If interested, you have until 3:00 pm this afternoon to check them out. Have a sustainable week!
Jay Walljasper and On the Commons. All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. (2010)
Veteran journalist Jay Walljasper is a fellow at and online editor for On the Commons, a commons movement strategy center connecting organizations, community leaders, and individuals with new ideas, practical solutions, and each other to create change. Their collection is an introduction to the broad range of ideas and activities of individuals and groups highlighting the importance of understanding and strengthening protection of the commons - those lands, waters, and other resources that belong to everyone. With success stories from communities around the world, it demonstrates how new thinking about our shared values relates to the economic, political, and cultural problems facing the world today.
Mark Brilliant. The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978. (2010)
UC Berkeley Professor Mark Brilliant examines California's history to illustrate how the civil rights era was a truly multiracial phenomenon that was shaped and complicated by the presence of not only blacks and whites, but also Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, and Chinese Americans, among others. Focusing on a wide range of legal and legislative initiatives pursued by a diverse group of reformers, Brilliant analyzes the cases that dismantled the state's multiracial system of legalized segregation in the 1940s and subsequent battles over fair employment practices, old-age pensions for long-term resident non-citizens, fair housing, agricultural labor, school desegregation, and bilingual education. While civil rights historians have long focused on the Southern experience and recently have turned their attention to the North, this work advances a new understanding of civil rights history that more fully reflects the racial diversity of America.
Rebecca Solnit. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. (2010)
Learn to see the city in a new way in this atlas "of principal landmarks and treasures of the region, including butterfly species, queer sites, murders, coffee, water, power, contingent identities, social types, libraries, early-morning bars, the lost labor landscape of 1960, and the monumental Monterey cypresses of San Francisco; of indigenous place names, women environmentalists, toxins, food sites, right-wing organizations, World War II shipyards, Zen Buddhist centers, salmon migration, and musical histories of the Bay area; with details of cultural geographies of the Mission District, the Fillmore's culture wars and metamorphoses, the racial discourses of United Nations Plaza, the South of Market world that redevelopment devoured, and other significant phenomena, vanished and extant."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A Coney Island of the Mind. (1958)
From the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, this collection originally published in 1958 continues to be one of the most popular books of poetry in the United States, with more than a million copies in print. Unconventionality, satiric bite, and lyric beauty illuminate themes that resonate today.
