Upcoming Symposium: “Harvard’s Special Collections Library Marks its 75th Anniversary with the Question: ‘Who Cares?'”

From Fine Books Magazine:

 Houghton Library, Harvard College’s primary rare books and manuscripts library, recently announced the capstone event of its 75th anniversary year, a symposium that asks bluntly, “Houghton Library: Who Cares?” The event, scheduled for this October 5th-6th, will examine the library’s legacy, mission, and path forward through the lens of that central question and provocation.
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Fourteen speakers and panelists who connect to Houghton’s collections in a range of ways – as creators and collectors, readers and interpreters, colleagues in cultural heritage from around the world – will join the audience to grapple with questions around care and concern for the collections, as well as the scholarship, art, and inquiry that come out of engagement with libraries like Houghton. Organizers of the event hope to face boldly questions and concerns, cultivating an informed optimism about the future of special collections and archives that is tempered with an understanding of the problems they face in our current cultural climate.

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