This exhibition has been extended through July 10th!

March 10 – July 10, 2013 – 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Floor of the Oviatt Library

Join us to celebrate some 500 years of Portuguese maritime skill, daring exploration, and mutual cultural influence with China as exemplified by magnificent photographs of the N.R.P. Sagres, which has roamed the world’s oceans as the Portugues Navy’s school ship, and of the historic architecture of the port city of Macau, the first enduring point of contact between China and the West.

Sponsored by the Old China Hands Archives, Oviatt Library, California State University Northridge, the International Institute of Macau, the Lusitano Club of California, the Macau Arts Culture and Heritage Institute U.S.A. and the Friends of the Oviatt Library.  Parking $6.00.  For information call (818) 677-2638.  Persons with disabilities needing assistance and deaf and hard of hearing persons needing interpreters, please call in advance for arrangements.

September 18, 2012 – July 26, 2013
C.K. and Teresa Tseng Gallery

Science fiction literature, one of the most popular and entertaining genres in modern fiction, has been read and loved by children and adults for decades. From the earliest pulp publications to modern masterpieces, science fiction short stories and novels have often functioned as a lens through which we express our sense of wonder, marvel at the possibilities of new technologies, and engage in our wildest imaginings. Join us as we celebrate the fantastic and strange in science fiction literature.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Oviatt Library.

October 19, 2010- July 22, 2011
C.K. and Teresa Tseng Gallery

For this exhibition, marking the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Library’s Special Collections, we have searched the vault for those one-of-a-kind pieces that have never or seldom been on display.  Here is your chance to see unique books, letters, costumes, maps, sculptures, paintings, engravings and manuscripts.  A big thank you to the many donors who have contributed to Special Collections over the years.

Some pieces you will enjoy:

• A contemporary account of the shootout at the OK corral
• The first written alphabet: a 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform
• Opera Singer Helen Traubel’s gown
• A 13th-century manuscript  Bible
• Banquet ticket and menu for Charles Dickens on the eve of his U.S. Tour
• A first Edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary