LHRT Executive Board Meeting

6/26/2016, 8:30AM – 10:00AM, HYATT – Columbia 37

Business meeting for the Library History Round Table.  Agenda forthcoming

 LHRT Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture

“History, Childhood, Memory, and Imagination”

6/26/16   10:30AM – 11:30AM, HYATT – Barrel Springs I

John Cech, Director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature & Culture at the University of Florida, will share insights from a lifetime researching children’s literature in his talk entitled “History, Childhood, Memory, and Imagination”.  Professor Cech was the Producer and Host of the Public Radio program, “Recess!,” (1998–2007). He is the author of Imagination and Innovation: The Story of Weston Woods; Angels and Wild Things; The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak, and the editor of American Writers for Children, 1900–1960.

 LHRT Research Forum

“History of Reading and Readers in Libraries”

6/26/2016, 1:00PM – 2:30PM, HYATT – Bayhill 27

• Amy Breimaier:  Caleb Bingham’s Vision for America: A Case Study of the
  Youth’s Library 1806 Catalogue
• Mary Carroll:  Exiled and isolated: Libraries in the early penal
  settlements of Van Dieman’s Land
• Dr. Emily Knox:   “Dirty” Materials Out of Place: Inappropriate Books and
  Social Classification
• Brian Shetler: “Never Read Any But Famed Books”: 19th Century Libraries
  and the Middlebrow Reader