Posts Tagged ‘donation’

The Development and Education Departments of the museum recently switched offices, and the big move has resulted in a lot of cleaning and reorganizing. During the chaos, many great books have been rediscovered and donated to the library, in addition to a few that were, um, checked out by staff some time ago (wink, wink), [...]


We’ve all wished for something…freeways without traffic, a shiny new red tricycle, true love, smaller bills and bigger paychecks…and for many of us our wishes have come true thanks to good fortune, hard work, dumb luck, or simply the kindness of others.

Here at the Dubois Library, we have had good fortune bestowed upon us with [...]


Everyone in the Southern California region should try to make a visit to the San Diego Public Library to see their exhibition of Edward Curtis photographs, The Photographs of Edward Curtis in Three Acts: Visual Representation, Empire and the Post-Colonial. The exhibition features examples from Curtis’s seminal work, The North American Indian, and will run [...]


MoPA hosted renowned National Geographic photographerSteve McCurry this week, on Wednesday, 9/13/06. Mr. McCurry gave two illuminating lectures complete with many slides of his work in East and Southeast Asia, and also participated in book and poster signings for lecture attendees.

The library was fortunate enough to receive two signed books from the museum bookstore: [...]