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Hello Jim,<br>
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Hampshire College people?<br>
Jane<br>
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1. Save the date (8 November): Hampshire College Center
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Book Seminar (Prof. James Wald (der Geist,
der stets verneint))<br><br>
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In conjunction with the Museums10 "BookMarks" program, our
seminar <br>
will meet to discuss writings and themes of the speakers taking
part <br>
in the series of events relating to the history and future of the
<br>
book ("Books to Blogs and Back" weekend).<br><br>
The seminar will take place at:<br><br>
Emily Dickinson Hall Lounge<br>
Hampshire College<br><br>
Thursday, 8 November<br>
7:00 p.m.<br>
as always, light refreshments will be provided<br><br>
(details will follow, and texts will be available in advance)<br><br>
Below is a provisional description of the events of Books/Blogs.<br><br>
We are very pleased that our seminar is in full swing again, and we
<br>
look forward to seeing you.<br><br>
Jim Wald<br><br>
<br>
The Program (all events take place at Mount Holyoke College)<br><br>
Thursday, November 15, 2007<br><br>
Keynote lecture<br>
Gamble Auditorium, 7:00 pm<br><br>
Robert Darnton, recently named Carl H. Pforzheimer University <br>
Professor and Director of Harvard University Library, has helped to
<br>
create the field known as “the history of the book.” A former
Rhodes <br>
Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, as well as de Chevalier of France’s
<br>
Légion d’honneur, Darnton is internationally recognized not only
for <br>
his work on the literary world of Enlightenment France as well as
the <br>
history of the book in general. Announcing his appointment last
May, <br>
Harvard Provost Steven Hyman described him as “an entrepreneur in
<br>
exploring electronic books, Web publishing, and other forms of new
<br>
media.”<br><br>
For his presentation, “The Research Library in the New Age of <br>
Information,” Darnton asks: How can we get our bearings in the
new <br>
landscape created by the explosion of information technology?
An <br>
attempt to put the present in historical perspective suggests two
<br>
arguments. According to the first, technological change since
the <br>
invention of writing has increased at such an accelerating rate
that <br>
we have entered a new era, one without precedent: the information
<br>
age. According to the second, every age is an age of
information, <br>
each in its own way, and the current sense of bewilderment at the
<br>
textual chaos in cyberspace ignores a fundamental fact: texts have
<br>
always been unstable. Whether we consider the daily newspaper or
the <br>
First Folio of Shakespeare, we encounter shifts in meaning produced
<br>
in the very process of transmission. Instead of entering a new
era, <br>
therefore, we may be suffering from a collective case of false
<br>
consciousness. But the modern modes of communicating
information <br>
have created a new role for research libraries. They still stand
at <br>
the center of campuses, their architecture proclaiming their <br>
importance for the preservation of knowledge. But behind
their <br>
classical facades they store and transmit digitized information in
<br>
new ways. Far from being made obsolete by enterprises like
Google, <br>
they function as platforms for developing new kinds of scholarship;
<br>
and they may be crucial in correcting some of the inadequacies of
<br>
Google itself<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
Friday, November 16, 2007<br><br>
Interactive Workshops, 9:00 11:00 am<br>
LITS Information Commons, Mount Holyoke College Library<br>
Interactive activities and exhibits relating to the history of book
<br>
creation and publication<br>
Hand bookbinding demonstrations by Val Moss of the Boston
University <br>
Conservation Lab<br>
Small letterpress printing demonstration by master printer Carl
<br>
Darrow of Historic Deerfield<br>
University of Massachusetts Press, Bruce Wilcox<br>
Zines<br>
Self Publishing Online (LuLu)<br>
I-Photo books<br>
Braille Books: how technology has help the disabled<br>
Blogs<br>
Kirtas Book Scanner demonstration by Joseph Merritt &
Company<br><br>
<br>
Lecture, 11:00 am<br>
Dwight 101<br><br>
Jason Epstein has been involved in book publishing since the 1950s.
<br>
At Doubleday he created Anchor Books, which helped to propel the so-
<br>
called “paperback revolution” and established the trade paperback
<br>
format. With colleagues, he founded the New York Review of Books
and <br>
in the 1982 created the Library of America, the prestigious
publisher <br>
of American classics. For many years, he was editorial director of
<br>
Random House. He also created the Readers Catalog of Back Titles, a
<br>
precursor to online stores like Amazon; and co-founded
OnDemandBooks, <br>
the company that sells the book vending machine.<br><br>
Epstein will discuss how new digital technologies make the book
<br>
publishing industry obsolete, but not the book itself. Rather,
he <br>
sees digital technology as an opportunity to replace publishers
<br>
physical inventories and costly infrastructure with deep virtual
<br>
inventory that will be ubiquitously cheaply available to readers
via <br>
print-on-demand machines, or Book ATMs.<br><br>
<br>
Panel discussion: The Past and Future of the Book,<br>
Gamble Auditorium, 1:30 pm<br><br>
Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio, moderator<br><br>
Terry Belanger, University Professor and Honorary Curator of
Special <br>
Collections at the University of Virginia since 1992, is the
founding<br>
director of the Rare Book School (RBS) there. Between 1972 and
1992, <br>
he ran a master's program for the training of rare book and special
<br>
collections librarians at the Columbia School of Library Service. A
<br>
2005 MacArthur Fellow, he has given his $500,000 award to RBS
support <br>
its work. He is dedicated to enhancing understanding of the <br>
importance of the book in an increasingly digital world and to
<br>
getting “books as physical objects from where they’re not wanted to
<br>
where they are.” For his presentation, “Books and Horses,” Belanger
<br>
will take as his text a statement by Sandra Kirshenbaum (editor of
<br>
Fine Print, 1975-1990) who has pointed out that the future of the
<br>
codex book may turn out to be similar to that of the horse. There
are <br>
still plenty of horses in the world, but they are now employed more
<br>
for recreational purposes than for their horsepower. In a coda
<br>
following his consideration of the long past of the codex book, he
<br>
will speculate on its possible futures.<br><br>
Sven Birkerts, essayist and literary critic, has taught writing at
<br>
Emerson College and Mount Holyoke College and is currently lecturer
<br>
at Harvard University. Since 2002, Birkerts has been editor of
AGNI, <br>
the web-based version of the acclaimed literary journal. He is most
<br>
well known for writing The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading
in <br>
an Electronic Age, which posits a decline in reading due to the
<br>
overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the
<br>
electronic age. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he has written:
“Our <br>
growing immersion in interactive electronic communication” may be
<br>
“cutting us off from the civilizing powers of the written word.” In
<br>
his presentation, “The Hive Life,” based on a recent AGNI essay, he
<br>
will focus less on the book itself than on the changing information
<br>
environment, the shift to the merged and collective at the expense
of <br>
the subjective/individual, which the book has for so long
enshrined.<br><br>
<br>
Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor in the Department of Media
<br>
Studies, Catholic University in Washington DC. She studies media as
<br>
uniquely complicated subjects of history. In her recent Always
<br>
Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture, she writes: “A
<br>
modern sense of history . . . is inextricable from experiences of
<br>
inscription, of writing, print, photography, sound recording,
cinema, <br>
and now—one must wonder—digital media that save text, image, and
<br>
sound files. Specifically, when media are new, they help to
challenge <br>
deeply held assumptions about the ways that meaning is authored and
<br>
conveyed, revealing the points at which those assumptions remain
<br>
importantly unsettled.” In her presentation, “Reading at Risk,”
she <br>
casts her gaze toward the future of the book, focusing in part on
<br>
novel reading. She will ask, for example, how in 200 years moral
<br>
panic about reading novels has shifted to moral panic about not
<br>
reading novels.<br><br>
Reception, 3:30 pm<br>
Mount Holyoke College Library Courtyard<br><br>
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