Lectures tagged "archive"

John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
February 8, 2010
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.
Robert Darnton: The Case for Books
Robert Darnton
February 3, 2010
00:57:50
Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, discusses the historical and cultural importance of the printed word.
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Vintage Photographic Portraiture at the Boston Athenaeum
Sally Pierce
April 25, 2009
00:55:45
Sally Pierce discusses the images displayed in the exhibition cases in the Bayard Denry Long Room of the Boston Athenaeum. This collection includes daguerreotypes, cartes de visite, tintypes, and other vintage examples of photographic portraiture.
Ownership of Cultural Property
Bernard Margolis
January 18, 2007
00:56:43
This series examines a number of issues that have long confronted the library world, and which hold implications for libraries for the future.