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The 12 titles on the longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction—"the world's most important literary award," according to its website—have just been announced.
 
From the Man Booker Prize website:

What is eligible for the prize?
Any full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom for the first time in the year of the prize. The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation) and must not be self-published.

The shortlist of six titles will be announced on Tuesday, 11 September; the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2012 will be announced on Tuesday, 16 October 2012.

The Man Booker Prize site includes an interactive timeline of the history of the prize.

Take a look at SearchWorks to see titles from the longlist available here in Green Library.

The Stanford University Libraries will host an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Hand Bookbinders of California. The exhibition will open Thursday, July 19, 2012, in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Green Library, Stanford University, and continue through Wednesday, September 5.

Formed in March 1972, the Hand Bookbinders of California was from its inception devoted to promoting and supporting the craft of traditional Western hand bookbinding. The founding group included some of the Bay Area’s most influential collectors, among them Duncan Olmstead and Gale Herrick, and many binders and teachers of binding, such as Stella Patri and Leah Wollenberg. Membership is open to binders of all skill levels anywhere in the world as well as anyone interested in its mission. Members are encouraged to enter their work in the annual, non-juried exhibition.

In addition to contemporary members’ bindings, this year’s exhibition at Stanford includes fine design bindings selected from the Libraries’ Special Collections. Bindings by Paul Bonet and Pierre Lucien Martin represent the strong French influence on the work of Bay Area teachers of binding, many of whom studied in France. Also on display is work by some of the organization’s early members and teachers, including Belle McMurtry Young, Peter Fahey, Florence Walter, Betty Lou Chaika, Donald Glaister, Joanne Sonnichsen, Barbara Fallon Hiller, Anne Kahle, and Eleanore Ramsey.

What: iBook Training Sessions
When: June 5th, 1:30pm - 3:00pm & June 7th, 1:30pm - 3:00pm and 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Where: Cubberley

We are excited to announce upcoming iBooks training sessions. Following the response to our last seminar, we have created 3 sessions to accommodate the variance in schedules especially as we near the end of quarter. The purpose of this session will be to introduce users to the recently released Apple iBooks publishing application.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to create any templates they need for their iBooks, and even begin adding content if they already have the text and multimedia elements including images, video and audio files. This will be a hands-on, guided practice starting with how to set up the iBooks Author app on the Mac Computers, as well as setting up an account to publish on the Apple Store using iTunes Producer app.

We will explore the two-step process of:

1. Creating an e-book using iBooks Author
2. Preparing the book using iTunes Producer and submission to the Apple Store, including a highlight of some stumbling blocks likely to surface during this process.

Please respond to the one-question survey below (it is a Stanford site, and we are not asking for your information) indicating the session that you plan to attend. If none works for you, suggest a different time/date and we will consider it based on number of requests. Please feel free to share this flyer with colleagues outside SULAIR.

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Joseph Makokha will facilitate this training session (possibly with the help of the Apple Campus Representative, Keven).