The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will hold its annual Information Day at Norlin Library on the CU-Boulder campus Thursday, Jan. 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event will be in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the fifth floor of the library. Information Day is free and open to the public and no reservations are required.
Jim Williams, dean of the CU Libraries, and Claudine Garby, president of the Friends, will welcome participants. Guests will view selected original American manuscripts and documents held in Special Collections.
Participants will get to see a signed Abraham Lincoln document, documents of indenture, slave documents, and letters written by Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Langston Hughes. Reference librarians also will provide training in the computer lab.
A catered light lunch will be served at noon. The lunch break will feature a program called "Blog, Google -- Say What? New Technologies and the University Libraries." New technologies have spawned a new vocabulary at a rapid rate. The presentation will define some of the new terms, demonstrate the technologies that authored them and provide a glimpse of how the University Libraries are using and may use them in the future.
The purpose of Information Day is to inform citizens that Norlin Library is accessible to them and to familiarize people with how to use the library, the largest facility of its kind in the Rocky Mountain area.
The event is co-sponsored by the Daily Camera newspaper. Pay parking is available in the Euclid Avenue AutoPark near Broadway.
For more information call the Friends of the Libraries at (303) 492-7511.