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Maxine Hong Kingston will present a reading on February 21 at 7 p.m. in Room LA2203 as part of the Spring 2006 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series. Kingston is a highly acclaimed fiction and nonfiction writer and one of the first Asian Americans to rise to the top of America's literary world. Her books The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, published in 1976, and China Men, published in 1980, both won the National Book Critic's Circle Award. In 1997, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

This event has been moved to Hardy Tower, Room 140.

"From Sea to Shining Sea: A Musical Tour of the United States" is on exhibit through February 24, 2006, in the Donor Hall and browsing area. This exhibit features the sheet music for patriotic songs and songs about America's states and cities.

The library will celebrate SDSU Month in March 2006 by offering tours and by holding the Friends of the Library Dinner. The dinner speaker will be Art Linkletter, SDSU alumnus and legendary television and radio personality. The dinner will be held on the evening of March 24 in Room LL108 of the SDSU Library. In addition, a major exhibit drawn from the Linkletter Collection will open on March 13 in the library's Donor Hall and run through September 8, 2006.

Writer, poet and performance artist David Mura will present a reading on March 27, 2006, at 7 p.m. in Room LA2203 as part of the Spring 2006 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series. The reading is free, and the public is invited. Mura is a third-generation Japanese American who has written intimately about his life as a man of color and the connections between race, sexuality and history. He is a prolific writer and the author of After We Lost Our Way, The Colors of Desire: Poems, A Male Grief, and Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei.

Writer William O'Rourke will read from his work on March 8, 2006, at 7 p.m. in Room LA2203 as part of the Spring 2006 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series. O'Rourke writes a weekly political column for the Chicago Sun-Times and is the author of four novels, The Meekness of Isaac, Idle Hands, Criminal Tendencies and Notts. He also has published four works of nonfiction, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, Signs of the Literary Times, Campaign America '96 and Campaign America 2000.

This event has been postponed.

Join colleagues, students and community members on Saturday, April 8, 2006, for Explore SDSU, our campus wide open house. For the third year, the Library and Information Access will be participating in this event. Last year, the library sponsored an information table on Aztec Green, tours of the library, an open house in Special Collections, a hands-on Internet presentation by librarians, tips on caring for personal book collections and exhibits.

Versatile writer Annie Finch will give a poetry reading on April 26 at 7 p.m. in Room LA2203 as part of the Spring 2006 Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series. Finch, a poet, translator and librettist, is an associate professor with the creative writing program at Miami University in Ohio. Her books of poetry include Calendars and Eve, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Yale Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her music and theatre collaborations include the opera trilogy Three Mothers with composer Deborah Drattell.