An exciting lecture series at U Penn coming up this month with Dr. Eisenstein / Karen W [please forward widely] *The University of Pennsylvania Libraries invite you to attend the* *A. S. W. ROSENBACH LECTURES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, 2010* *Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan* * * *"Divine Art / Infernal Machine: Western Views of Printing Surveyed"* Monday, March 22, 2010: "First Impressions" Tuesday, March 23, 2010: "Eighteenth-Century Attitudes" Thursday, March 25, 2010: "From Steam Press to Cyberspace" All lectures start at 5:30 P.M. and are presented in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library (3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, with an entrance from Locust Walk north of the statue of a broken button). *Free and open to the public*; RSVPs welcome but not required. More information about the lectures and the lecture series is at: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/rosenbachs.html Or call 215 898-7088, or email John Pollack: [log in to unmask] The 2010 Rosenbach Fellow, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, is a graduate of Vassar College and Harvard University and is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Michigan.* Her classic work The Printing* *Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural* *Transformations in Early Modern Europe (1979)* is available in many formats and languages, and her other works include Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution (1992). Professor Eisenstein received the Scholarly Distinction award from the American Historical Association in 2002. The Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, established by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in 1928, honors a gift for that purpose from A. S. W. Rosenbach, one of America's greatest book dealers and collectors. The Rosenbach Lectures are intended to further scholarship and scholarly publication in bibliography and book history, broadly understood. Begun in 1931, when Christopher Morley served as first Rosenbach Fellow, the Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Over the years, lecture topics have included fifteenth-century printing, the relationships between print and manuscript, papermaking, book illustration, American reading and publishing, and medical and scientific texts. Many of these lectures have been published as book-length studies by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Recent past lecturers have included Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Anthony Grafton, David D. Hall, Janice Radway, Paul Saenger, Peter Stallybrass, and Michael Warner. ***** Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty, iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask] / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask] *"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; * *the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"* * --Plato*