An exciting lecture series at U Penn coming up this month with Dr. Eisenstein / Karen W 

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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

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.

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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]