Photography exhibition of Días de los Muertos celebrations at California State University, Northridge by Jennifer Gutierrez Morgan. Altar/Ofrenda installation by altarista Rosanna Ahrens Esparza. Student art work featuring masks, nichos (miniature altars), and traditional Mexican folk art.

Curated by Professors Yreina Cervantez and Lara Medina.  Sponsored by the Department of Chicana/ o Studies and Oviatt Library California State University, Northridge

Join us for our opening event, Monday October 15, 4-6pm

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.

Join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of the special Día de los Muertos lobby exhibit, Celebrando la Vida/Recordando Nuestros Muertos: Celebrating Life/Remembering our Dead. 

Enjoy a musical performance by the Latino Student Ensemble!

Sponsored by the Department of Chicana/ o Studies and Oviatt Library California State University, Northridge.

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