What: Claire T. Carney Library Associates Annual Meeting – Guest Speaker Dr. Alan Hirshfeld
Where: Soico/FirstFed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room, Claire T. Carney Library
When: 7 p.m., May 12, 2015
Open to the Public

Light refreshments will be served following the lecture.

The Claire T. Carney Library Associates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 in the Soico/FirstFed Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room at 7 PM.

A check from the Library Associates will be presented to the Dean of the Claire T. Carney Library, Dr. Terrence Burton at the meeting.

Our guest speaker for our annual meeting will be Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Hirshfeld is the author of several books on astrophysics including Starlight Dectectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe, which was released last summer.

Professor Hirshfeld earned his B.S. in astrophysics from Princeton University in 1973 and his M.S. (1975) and his Ph.D. (1978) in astronomy from Yale University. He is the director of the UMass Dartmouth Observatory. He is also the author of several periodicals on the history of physics and astronomy.

All Claire T. Carney Library Associate members are invited to attend as well as the general public.

Light refreshments will be served following the lecture. Parking is available on campus in lot 13.

Please consider becoming a member of the Library Associates.
For further information, please contact Maria Sanguinetti at msanguinetti@umassd.edu.