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Dan Vaccaro

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Author Percival Everett discusses latest book, race in America, and a Spielberg adaptation at Bancroft Library event

As people began to line up on the Berkeley sidewalk, you couldn’t help but think about the many Americans who had recently stood in line to make their voices heard in the presidential election. In a way, by showing up for a reading by esteemed author Percival Everett, mere hours after the election was decided, the gathered people were casting another vote — for the honest examination of American history and the importance of stories that offer a different perspective.

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Beautiful and boundary-pushing: Artists’ books shine in new exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

At first glance, Amissa Anima: A Book of the Dead looks like a traditional hardback volume. Open the cover, however, and you find something unexpected: a kit for contacting the dead. Nested within the unique artist’s book are an album of unsettling photographs, from which the user can select a spirit to summon; a set of bottled emotions that evoke the strong feelings said to link a person to the spirit world; and a Ouija board to facilitate the conversation.

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Ready player fun: Students navigate retro gaming gauntlet at UC Berkeley Library

The sound most often heard on Monday mornings at the UC Berkeley Library is the barely stifled yawn, or occasionally, the heavy sigh while turning a textbook page.  But on a recent Monday — at 9 a.m., no less — laughter erupted into the hallway outside the Library Makerspace. What otherworldly power could energize college students? The electric charm of retro video games.

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How the Library’s Makerspace helps students ace academic projects — and forget about school for a while

Let’s just say you are studying otters’ teeth. No, really. Go with me here. You’re hoping to scan the teeth at about 400 times their original size, so you can 3-D print some monstrously large molars and examine them, without needing to put your fingers in one of the famously feisty mammals’ mouths. Where would you go to find the tools and support you need to make that happen?

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‘Never again’: Library exhibit tells story of WWII Japanese American incarceration, sounds alarm on importance of remembering

Sam Mihara remembers where he was when he heard the news. On Dec. 7, 1941, Mihara, then 9 years old, had gone to see a movie near his Japantown neighborhood in San Francisco. When he emerged from the theater, the community was abuzz: The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. The second-generation Japanese American recounted the bewildering — and seminal — moment in a 2012 interview with The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center.

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