Are we closing the book on the library?
5:30pm - 8:00pm /
Wednesday 5th July 2017
/ Venue: Leggate Theatre Victoria Gallery & Museum
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Mark O'Brien
- Suitable for: The John Hamilton Lecture is an open event suitable for all to attend
- Admission: Free to attend
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John Hamilton Lecture Series: Are we closing the book on the library?
To book a place email eddev@liverpool.ac.uk with your name, email address, staff or student number and username (if a member of the University of Liverpool) and a contact telephone number as well as the name of this session.
Is the era of the physical book and its traditional home, the library in a fixed building, at an end? Will the digital revolution simply do away with the library? Do we just keep libraries open out of nostalgia for an out of date artefact?
Alan Gibbons examines the history of the book, its resilience, the place of libraries in an age of austerity and the role of literacy in social mobility.
About the speaker:
Alan is a Liverpool-based author of Children's and Young Adult's books and a prolific political and cultural commentator. The million-selling writer of over sixty books his is the organiser of the Campaign for the Book and a member of the Speak up for Libraries coalition which campaigns to promote the Public Library Service.
For his work with libraries, Alan was the recipient of an honorary membership of the professional librarian's body, CLIP and for his work in education he received the Fred Jarvis Award, and won the Blue Peter Book Award for his novel The Book I Couldn't Put Down.
Alan visits more than 160 schools a year in the UK and overseas.
To book a place email eddev@liverpool.ac.uk with your name, email address, staff or student number and username (if a member of the University of Liverpool) and a contact telephone number as well as the name of this session.
Is the era of the physical book and its traditional home, the library in a fixed building, at an end? Will the digital revolution simply do away with the library? Do we just keep libraries open out of nostalgia for an out of date artefact?
Alan Gibbons examines the history of the book, its resilience, the place of libraries in an age of austerity and the role of literacy in social mobility.
About the speaker:
Alan is a Liverpool-based author of Children's and Young Adult's books and a prolific political and cultural commentator. The million-selling writer of over sixty books his is the organiser of the Campaign for the Book and a member of the Speak up for Libraries coalition which campaigns to promote the Public Library Service.
For his work with libraries, Alan was the recipient of an honorary membership of the professional librarian's body, CLIP and for his work in education he received the Fred Jarvis Award, and won the Blue Peter Book Award for his novel The Book I Couldn't Put Down.
Alan visits more than 160 schools a year in the UK and overseas.