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The Bancroft Library Study Award: For each academic year, three fellowships are available to graduate students on all University of California campuses who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library. The holders of the fellowships, designated as Bancroft Fellows, will conduct their research in The Bancroft Library on the Berkeley campus during the one-year tenure of the fellowship and must therefore be registered during this period at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. 
The Bancroft Library and KQED Pubic Radio (88.5 FM) are pleased to broadcast three programs on the history of early California. Three noted scholars and authors will discuss important aspects of California history that draw on the extensive collections of The Bancroft Library.
"The California Mission As Symbol and Myth" "The Origins and Power of California's Image" "Heaven on the Half-Shell: Mark Twain in California" KQED Radio will also broadcast the programs again at 2 a.m. on the following day. Recorded before a live audience in the Heller Reading Room of The Bancroft Library on the University of California, Berkeley campus, the one-hour programs include a 10-minute question and answer period, moderated by Dr. Charles Faulhaber, Director of The Bancroft Library. In making the announcement, Ms. Jo Anne Wallace, Vice President and General Manager of KQED Public Radio, stated, "We are delighted to be joining with an esteemed institution like the Bancroft Library to demonstrate that history can be exciting. This is the first time KQED Public Radio has aired a California historical series, and we believe our KQED listeners will find these talks both extremely interesting and highly educational." Dr. Faulhaber added, "We hope the programs will stimulate interest in and support of The Bancroft, which contains indispensable resources for understanding the history of California and western North America. These programs will help us develop the public's understanding of the depth of resources at The Bancroft. We hope this will be the first in a long series of interesting and informative Bancroft programs with KQED Public Radio." This KQED Public Radio series is an expansion of a "The History of Early California" lecture series that The Bancroft conducted in 2000. Sponsored with a grant from The Wells Fargo Foundation, Bancroft produced 15,000 sets of audiotape talks by these lecturers. The recordings were distributed to every California public library and high school, to members of the Friends of the Bancroft Library and other supporters of the University of California, and to Federal, state and county governmental officials. The Bancroft Library will also provide these audiotapes to KQED for use as gifts during its Spring 2002 pledge drive. |
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