Exhibition
There is a Special Collections & Archives exhibition located in the display cases on the second floor of Fenwick Library, Wing A. The exhibition is entitled "The History of Virginia in Books," and highlights some of Special Collections & Archives' recent acquisitions. Special Collections & Archives actively collects Virginia history, including the history of Northern Virginia and Jamestowne (the Herschel H. Helm Collection). Featured in the exhibit are: John Burk's The History of Virginia, from It's First Settlement to the Present Day. Petersburg, Virginia, published in 1804, 1805 and 1816; William Stith's The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia, published in 1865; and T. B Warder and James Catlett's Battle of Young's Branch, or Manassas Plain, Fought July 21, 1861, published in 1862. The exhibit will be up through the end of May. Please stop by and check it out!

James M. Buchanan Inaugural Lecture
On April 7th the Center for the Study of Public Choice and University Libraries hosted the first James M. Buchanan Lecture. Distinguished guest lecturer Deirdre McCloskey was the keynote speaker, discussing "The Hobbes Problem: From Machiavelli to Buchanan." Robert Vay, electronics text coordinator, also spoke, discussing the process of making materials available via the Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS) . Following the lecture a reception was held in Mason Hall featuring the exhibit, "Biography of a Book." The exhibit, currated by Special Collections & Archives graduate students Adam Fielding and Carrie Hoover, featured letters, photographs and other documents related to the making of The Calculus of Consent. The Calculus of Consent, 1962, presented public choice theory as an innovative approach to to analyzing the political process as it relates to the economy. Photographs from the event can be found at: http://condor.gmu.edu/~photography/images/webbuchanan2/