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The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will hold its annual Information Day at Norlin Library on the CU-Boulder campus Thursday, Jan. 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the fifth floor of the library. Information Day is free and open to the public and no reservations are required. Jim Williams, dean of the CU Libraries, and Claudine Garby, president of the Friends, will welcome participants. Guests will view selected original American manuscripts and documents held in Special Collections.

MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Boulder has released a report outlining the university's progress toward meeting diversity goals that will be presented to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity in January. CU President Hank Brown created the commission to study the effectiveness of campus diversity programs at all CU campuses. The committee will include community and corporate leaders and will hold its first meeting on Jan. 21. A selected group of students, faculty and staff also will participate.

Personal stories and eyewitness accounts of the 1930s Dust Bowl disaster on the high plains will be part of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Timothy Egan's public discussion Jan. 9 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Egan will discuss his new book, "The Worst Hard Time," at 6:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, and a book signing and reception will follow the talk in Old Main's CU Heritage Center.

A region of Mars that some planetary scientists believe was once a shallow lakebed and likely habitable for life may not have been so wet after all, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.