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\nFour Events by Library co-founder Rick Prelinger are happening in December, as are some special Library hours. Then in January: an artist event, special hours, and Place Talks<\/p>\n
The email version of this newsletter omitted Place Talks,<\/strong> for which we apologize. January 16 Place Talks<\/strong> features Lily Sloane,<\/strong> and ex-Library artist-in-residence Tamara Porras<\/strong> who presents her visual history of recent eclipses. Onward, to the rest of the Newsletter:<\/p>\n First, November in brief review<\/strong> On to December! \u2026 all of RP\u2019s<\/strong> events are off-site, and are “Library-associated” events rather than \u201cLibrary events\u201d in the usual sense of at<\/em> the Library<\/p>\n Saturday December 7, RP<\/strong> presents a performative slideshow about his work interpreting QSL Cards (Radio Ham exchange cards) at Other Cinema<\/a><\/strong> in a program that features several other interesting works, and we look forward to seeing Library friend Walter Forsberg<\/strong> (we think: the cryptic postcards sender!) who will be in from M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n IN the Library: there are Saturday public hours<\/strong> that day hosted by Monica,<\/strong> followed on Sunday by Quarterly Sunday hours<\/strong> hosted by longstanding core community members Adrianne & Bryan,<\/strong> whose quarterly Sundays particularly serve media makers.<\/p>\n
\nWhen the rains began, the Library was lucky to have quick-witted and conservation-skilled James G.<\/strong> in residence (below), who addressed a ceiling leak in real time and protected the topographic maps. Putting fresh paint onto the motto that \u201cwe are all making the Library happen together.\u201d \u2026 Visting historian from M\u00e9xico Alfredo Cruz<\/strong> capped November with several days\u2019 worth of research to support his lines of inquiry into the history of art and technology. \u2026 Speaking of \u201cwe are all making the Library happen\u2026\u201d: Jay Bartguy<\/strong> hosted short-notice supplemental appointment hours to support Alfredo\u2019s research. New resident artist James G.<\/strong> is installed with a painting studio in the back of the room, and is adding a portrait series of cigarette-smoking men (shades of the X-Files) and other figures to the guestbook. In November the Library hosted two university class field trips and a surge of public engagement.<\/p>\n