Sandra Gilbert, an author, feminist literary critic and professor of English at the University of California, Davis, will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Library Associates of UC Davis on Wednesday, May 27. Gilbert will deliver her lecture, titled "Baptizing a Kangaroo or, Constructing an Anthology of Literature by Women," at 8 p.m. in the campus's Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Her talk will be preceded by no-host cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. and a brief business meeting. In 1985, Gilbert co-edited, with Susan Gubar, an English professor at Indiana University, "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women," the first historical overview of its kind. Their collaboration on "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination" (1980) was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Gilbert joined the UC Davis English faculty in 1975. In 1985, she went to Princeton University as the Charles Barnwell Strout Professor of English. After five years, she returned to UC Davis. She currently is working with Gubar on the third volume of their book "No Man's Land." The Library Associates is a volunteer group that sponsors fund-raising events to support the activities of the libraries at UC Davis. Reservations are required for the dinner. Admission is $30 for the dinner and lecture and $10 for the lecture only. Students may attend the lecture for $5. For information and reservations, or to join the Library Associates, call (916) 752-3222.