PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2009

CONTACT: Prange Collection
301/405-9348
prangebunko@umd.edu

College Park, MD – Please join the University of Maryland Libraries in the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the Gordon W. Prange Collection on April 29th.

The Prange Collection is the largest collection in the world of Japanese print publications from the early post-World War II years, 1945-1949. The publications were censored by General Douglas MacArthur’s General Headquarters (GHQ) during the Occupation of Japan and are a record of U.S. history during this period as well as Japanese history.

The Collection comprises books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, news agency photographs, posters, maps and censorship documents-- virtually everything published on all subjects.

On April 29th, the celebration ceremony will take place in the Arts & Sociology Building, room 2203 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Pulitzer Prize winner John Dower, the Ford International Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In conjunction with this event, a workshop entitled, Using Japanese Visual Images to Support Teaching, Research and Publications in Japan Studies, will be held on April 30th in the McKeldin Library Special Events Room from 9:00am to 12:30 pm.

As an ongoing event, the Prange Collection hosts an exhibit entitled, Voices of the Vanquished: Censored Print Publications from Postwar Japan, 1945-1949, in the Hornbake Gallery.

For more information on the events: http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange/html/news.jsp
For driving directions: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/drivingdirections.html

All events are free and open to the public.