An Evening with Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch worked as a journalist in Alaska, Washington, D.C., and across the Pacific Northwest, winning a number of national reporting honors.His critically acclaimed first novel, The Highest Tide, was an international bestseller and received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award.
Pre-register with UW Alumni Association beginning January 4, 2010
Friday February 19, 2010
7:00pm - Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting (public is invited)
7:30pm - Jim Lynch
reception following
Suzzallo Library 101

SAVE the DATE: Literary Voices 2010
Dine at Literary Roundtables with authors
Timothy Egan, Keynote Speaker

Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter. In 2006, Egan won the National Book Award for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America.
presented by Friends of the Libraries -- tickets available January 4, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 6pm
UW Club

Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Courage
Eight UW Alumni have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for military valor. The UW is honoring them with a memorial near the heart of campus.
through December 18
Odegaard Undergraduate Library
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30 Years of U.S.-China Relations

Content provided by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco. Also included: materials from the Anna Louise Strong papers held in Libraries Special Collections.
through December 24
Suzzallo Library 102

The Robert Hitchman Collection: A Lifetime of Pacific Northwest History
Robert Hitchman was a Seattle historian, bibliophile, and collector. This exhibit presents a selection of books, historical documents, artifacts, and ephemera.
through November 30
Allen Library North Balcony

Women's Work at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition (AYPE)
through November 24
Special Collections Lobby, Allen Library South, Lower Level •  hours
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• Libraries AYPE online exhibit