Announcements

The Brooklyn College Library showcased books by faculty members at the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Book Festival outside Borough Hall on September 16. Ten thousand book lovers had the chance to speak the faculty about their works.

On October 11, the Brooklyn College Library held a reception for Professor Emeritus Stuart Schaar, who donated his substantial book and manuscript collection on North African and Middle Eastern culture, history, and politics. This collection will be housed in the Archives and Special Collections Division of the library and will be available to scholars and students in 2009.

The Graduate Center 's Eighteenth-Century Reading Room hosted two fall lectures: “Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Wake of the Enlightenment: Moses Mendelssohn, Judah Ben-Se'ev, and the Rhetoric of Religion” by Dr. David Richter of the Graduate Center and Queens and “Out to Eat: The Emergence and Evolution of the Restaurant in Nineteenth-Century New York” by Dr. Cindy Lobel of Lehman. The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room also sponsors a CUNY-wide essay competition.