Libraries as Time Machines

Speaker
Professor Robert Darnton
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 19:00
Venue
St John's College
St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3JP
Venue details

Garden Quad Auditorium

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

Professor Robert Darnton’s lecture marks the official reopening of St John’s historic libraries after restoration. 

The lecture will look at the importance of libraries in understanding how people thought in the past and consider the libraries of the future.

Professor Robert Darnton was formerly Professor of History, Princeton University; Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library.