The exhibition committee (Chiaki Sakai, Japanese Studies Librarian; Marianne Mason, Federal Documents Librarian and Duncan Stewart, Cataloging Librarian) will be hosting paper crane making session on Thursday, December 3 from 2-4 p.m. in Main Library, North Exhibition Hall, with the goal of sending a thousand paper cranes to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish. In modern times the thousand origami cranes has become a symbol of world peace. After they are donated to temples or other peace organizations, the cranes often are left exposed to the elements, slowly dissolving and becoming tattered as the wish is released.

Sakai will be providing demonstrations of origami paper crane folding, but you can watch a video online http://www.metacafe.com/watch/387698/how_to_fold_an_origami_paper_crane_orizuru/ .