MECHANICS'  INSTITUTE  CALENDAR
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2008

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  LB = Library Book Groups
LC = Library Classes
LT = Library Tours

CH = Chess Club
E   = Author/Literary Events
CI  = CinemaLit    S  = Salons

NOVEMBER
01 SA Scholastic Quads, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm  CH
02 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
04 TU Email : Do the 'Write" Thing  LC
Lecture by IM John Donaldson, 5:15 - 6:25 pm  CH
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
05 W Weekly Library Tour  LT   
06 TH The United States Constitution:
A Graphic Adaptation,
Jonathan Hennessey 
E   
07 F The Small Back Room (1949)  CI   
08 SA Carroll Capps Memorial, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
09 SU Carroll Capps Memorial, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
10 M Brown Bag Mystery Readers' Book Group
Monk's Hood, Ellis Peters  
LB 
11 TU Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh  E 
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
12 W Weekly Library Tour  LT 
Proust Society Book Group  
LB   
13 TH Effective Internet Searching : Google and More   LC
Traitor to His Class : the Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. W. Brands 
E 
14 F The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)  CI   
16 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
18 TU Fiction (You Wish You Had Read) Book Group:
Fathers and Sons (Fathers and Children)
, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev  
LB     
Towers of Gold : How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California,
Frances Dinkelspiel 
E 
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
19 W Company Information on the Web  LC
Weekly Library Tour  
LT 
20 TH California Interpreted Book Group:
Earth Abides
, George Rippey Stewart  
LB   
21 F Red River (1948)  CI 
22 SA 8th Saint Amant Memorial, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
23 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
25 TU Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
26 W Weekly Library Tour  LT 
Proust Society Book Group  
LB   
30 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
 
DECEMBER
02 TU Computer Basics for Pen-and-Pencil People, Part 1   LC
Lecture by IM John Donaldson, 5:15 - 6:25 pm  CH
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
03 W Computer Basics for Pen-and-Pencil People, Part 2   LC
Weekly Library Tour  
LT    
Art Deco San Francisco : the Architecture of Timothy Pflueger, hosted by Pierluigi Serraino 
E 
04 TH Computer Basics for Pen-and-Pencil People, Part 3  LC
06 SA Jim Hurt Memorial, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
07 SU Jim Hurt Memorial, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
08 M Brown Bag Mystery Readers' Book Group
A Drink of Deadly Wine, Kate Charles  
LB  
09 TU Books and Booking : Travel Resources at the Library   LC
Lecture by IM John Donaldson, 5:15 - 6:25 pm  CH
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
10 W Weekly Library Tour  LT 
Proust Society Book Group  
LB   
11 TH Members' Meeting and Holiday Gathering   S
13 SA 8th Annual Guthrie McClain Memorial G/45,
10:00 am - 8:00 pm  CH
14 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH
16 TU Newspapers Online : ProQuest Electronic Database   LC
Fiction (You Wish You Had Read): Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  
LB     
Lecture by IM John Donaldson, 5:15 - 6:25 pm  CH
Fall Tuesday Night Marathon, 6:30 - 10:30 pm  CH  
17 W Weekly Library Tour  LT  
18 TH Now Where Was That Article?   LC
20 SA Scholastic Quads, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm  CH
21 SU Chess for Women taught by Ewelina Krubnik, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  CH



Revised: October 28, 2008