October 11, 1999
Science Matters Book Club will discuss the fates of human societies at next meeting
By Tim Stephens
The Science Matters Book Club, which meets each month at the Central Branch of
the Santa Cruz Public Library, holds its meeting for this month on Sunday, October
17, from 2 to 4 p.m. Mike Dalbey, a lecturer in biology at UCSC, will lead a discussion
of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates
of Human Societies.
The book club is open to the general public and focuses on nontechnical science books.
Each discussion is led by a member of the local scientific community with expertise
in the subject of that month's book. Meetings are usually on the third Sunday of
each month.
The book club is sponsored by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, the UCSC Science Library,
the Cabrillo College Library, the Association for Women in Science-Monterey Bay,
the Capitola Book Cafe, and the Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History. The Capitola
Book Cafe offers a 10 percent discount to members of the book club for the monthly
selections.
"This book club was created to provide a forum for readers of lay science books
to be able to ask questions of professionals in the field," said Victoria Welborn,
reference librarian at the UCSC Science Library. "It also provides a forum for
scientists to discuss their work with nonscientists."
For more information about the Science Matters Book Club, contact Victoria Welborn
at (831) 459-2816 or welborn@cats.ucsc.edu.
Information is also available on the Web at www.santacruzpl.org/science.
