Conference announcement

Announcement of Up-coming Conference

WHITHER THE BOOK?
A Conference to Examine the Book Historically and Discuss
its Future Within the Context of Current Changes in
Electronic Communications

Thursday, September 26, 1991

Auditorium, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
816 State Street (on the Library Mall)
Madison, Wisconsin

Organized by the Silver Buckle Press of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library
System, with generous support from the Brittingham
Fund.

Speakers:
Terry Belanger "The Future of the Book (If Any)"

Gary Frost "The Un-Electrified Book: Persistence of a Cultural Tool"

Nicholas Pickwoad "History of Bookbinding & the Evidence of
Readership; 1500-1800"

Patricia Ann Carlson "Square Books & Round Books; Cognitive
Implications of Hypermedia"

Robert Darnton "Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary
France"

The conference will include demonstrations of state-of-the-art
computer-based technology, book exhibitions and tours of
campus facilities. It is free and open to all.

For more information write to: Book Conference
Silver Buckle Press  :: College Library :: 600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
or call Barbara Tetenbaum (organizer) at (608)263-4929

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