Greetings
The Boston Book Festival 2014 is being held on October 23-25, 2014 around Boston’s Copley Square area:
http://www.bostonbookfest.org/
Most events are free, but there are some ticketed events.
Some of the writers that are participating are Susan Minot, Rick Riordan, Norman Foster and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Herbie Hancock is giving one of the keynote speeches.
Also, there’s one Saturday session called Libraries of the Future at 2:15 pm in the Boston Common Carver, 40 Trinity Place:
“In the future, libraries will thrive—although in a variety of new forms. This is the contention made by Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles, who combine the study of the library’s history with a record of innovation at Harvard’s metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the digital humanities. In The Library Beyond the Book, they offer a provocative and lively exploration of libraries as hybrid places that intermingle analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. Their scenarios for future libraries imagine them as everything from study centers to social change agents and event-driven knowledge centers. Join the conversation about libraries of the future led by Joshua Glenn, author of Taking Things Seriously and co-founder of the blog HiLobrow.”
Cheers
Posted by Rich