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Reid Byers on “The Private Library”

February 22, 2023, 6pm, Zoom On Wednesday evening, February 22, Ticknor Society member Reid Byers took his Zoom audience on an extraordinary journey across continents and millennia to view and learn all about a remarkable variety of private libraries and their architecture, furnishings, and users. It was fascinating to learn precisely where these rooms of books…

Four Contributions to the Cultural History of Libraries

October 4, 2003, Barker Center for the Humanities, Harvard University Co-sponsored with the History of the Book Seminar at the Barker Center for the Humanities, the program included four papers: “The Librarian in loco parentis” by Matthew Battles, Coordinating Editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin and author of Library: An Unquiet History “‘A beginning is…