Sponsored by The Grolier Club Geoffrey Roberts, History Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (Ireland) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, will discuss his latest publication, Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books (Yale University Press, 2022). Stalin was a surprisingly learned bookworm, as he analyzed and refracted the published ideas of his […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America and The Book Club of California “Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries” Monday, July 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:15 pm Pacific Time Speaker: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library Located in Central London on the banks of the Thames, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Global Library Project Monday, July 18, 2022, 6-7:15 PM In-Person event & Livestream to Zoom After 18 years of photographing libraries throughout the United States, Robert Dawson and Ellen Manchester took what they had learned and applied it to a global perspective. In 2016, they photographed more […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom. January Daytime Program Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history of LGBTQ peoples and additional […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Kim Bancroft will discuss the legacy of her great-great-grandparents, H.H. Bancroft, historian of the West and founder of The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, and his second wife, Matilda Bancroft, a writer and historian in her own right. After marrying H.H. in 1859, Emily wrote voluminous letters from […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Buying and Building One of the World’s Greatest Libraries Presentation by Dr. Vanessa Wilkie Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts & British History at The Huntington Library Online Sunday, August 20, 2 pm PDT Register here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/buying-and-building-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-libraries Dr. Wilkie will take us back to a time when wealthy Americans […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington A virtual visit with a terrific guide (Allie Alvis, Curator of Special Collections) to get the back story on the formation of the unique collection at Winterthur (Delaware) and some of the beautiful and bizarre items it contains. Register here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-wonderful-and-weird-winterthur-library