The Main Library and the branch libraries are closed Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27. (However, the Law Library is open Friday with reduced hours.) Saturday, November 28 the Main Library is open 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Normal hours resume on Sunday. The branch libraries' hours vary. For complete details see http://www2.lib.msu.edu/general/library-hours-cal.jsp.

Killing Kasztner
Also known as The Persecution and Assassination of Dr. Israel Kasztner (2009)

Directed by Gaylen Ross

Monday, Nov. 16, 2008, 7:00 pm, Main Library, W449
Admission is Free

Commentary and discussion to follow with Director Gaylen Ross.

A contemporary tale of murder, conspiracy and intrigue.

Israel Kasztner. A Hungarian Jew who negotiated for lives with Adolf Eichman. A trial and verdict that forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." Murdered by Israeli assassins who gunned him down in front of his doorstep. Now fifty years later, his daughter's desperate efforts to restore her father's place as the greatest Jewish hero of the Holocaust, and to uncover the mystery that still clouds his death.

For additional information, please contact Jewish Studies: (517) 432-3493

Presented by: MSU Libraries and MSU Jewish Studies.

E-token users in the Main Library can now print 11x17 in black and white or color. Choose e-token "tabloid" print in either black and white or color from the drop down print menu on the full application computers in the Main Library. The 11x17 prints are sent to the Color E-token printer in the Lobby. The price for black and white 11x17 is 10 cents and the price for color 11x17 is 80 cents. For people without e-tokens, you are still able to print all sizes to the Copy Center in both black and white and color. See http://www2.lib.msu.edu/howto/copycenter.jsp for more information.

Admission: Free

Time: 7:00pm

Location: - North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library

Thursday, November 12 - Twelfth Night (1996, UK, 134 minutes)

Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Presented by: Sandra Logan, Department of English, and cosponsored by the Department of English and the Early Modern Studies group.

This engaging Shakespearean comedy follows the adventures of Viola and Sebastian, twins separated in a shipwreck and washed up on the shores of a foreign land. The siblings are caught up in a series of romantic misadventures involving unrequited love, deception, cross-dressing, mistaken identity, drunken revelries, and comedic vengeance, while the perceptive fool's bittersweet songs remind us of "the fragility and vulnerability of . . . happiness" (Peter Holland). Imogene Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorn, Ben Kingsley.

Admission: Free

Time: 7:00pm

Location: - North Conference Room (W449), 4th floor, West Wing, MSU Main Library

Thursday, October 29 - American Dream (1990, US, 102 minutes)

Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Presented by: John Beck, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, and cosponsored by Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Academy Award(R) Winner for Best Documentary, 1990, this acclaimed motion picture captures the stark reality of working men and women making impossibly tough choices about survival during a time of extreme economic crisis. When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair.