PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2008

CONTACT: Yelena Luckert
301/405-9365
yluckert@umd.edu

College Park, MD – The capstone event for the Libraries will be a day-long conference: "Books, Libraries, and Modern War," December 5, in Room 6137 McKeldin Library. Wars destroy libraries but they also fill libraries, as they stimulate writing, publishing and reading. In this day-long symposium, scholars will consider how war has both destroyed and created books and libraries from World War I to the present. The event is free and open to the public, but please email Eric Lindquist to register.

See the campus website for more information on the many events, resources, courses and subtopics surrounding "A Semester on War and the Representation of War, Fall 2008": http://www.war.umd.edu.

The University of Maryland is the only nationally ranked public university in the Baltimore/Washington area. With a total student enrollment approaching 40,000, the University is supported in its academic endeavors by the University of Maryland Libraries, comprised of eight libraries and more than 3.5 million volumes.

For event information: http://www.lib.umd.edu/mck/books_and_war.html