Friends of Senate House Library
Programme of Events - Autumn 2011
Some events are for members of the Friends only; visits are intended primarily for members, although guests may be included if places are available. Please let the Library Office know if you wish to attend any of the events (contact details at the end).
The 2011 Holden Lecture: Christopher Pressler, Director of Senate House Libraries: 'Borges meets Orwell - The 21st Century Research Library'
The Senate Room (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Tuesday 18 October 2011 6.00pm
In this year’s Charles Holden Lecture, the Director of Senate House Libraries, Christopher Pressler uses the literary devices of Borges’ labyrinths and Orwell’s morality tales to provide a view of the construct and purpose of research libraries in our time. Additionally, using Charles Holden’s own design principles for Senate House Library the lecture will explore a changing information environment in which print and digital culture need to coexist in the world’s great libraries.
Lecture followed by a wine reception in the Jessel Room. All welcome. Attendance free.
Senate House Library Friends Annual General Meeting and Lecture by Alistair Black: Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Wednesday 16 November 2011; 4.00pm AGM, 6.00pm Lecture
Senate House Friends AGM followed by a lecture by Alistair Black (University of Illinois) ‘From Centre of Culture to Cultural Centre: The Public Library in Britain since 1850'All Welcome. Attendance free. Refreshments provided.
Senate House Friends Visit to Middle Temple Library
Tuesday 6 December 2011; 4pm
Talk by Andrew Sanders, 'Dickens and the City:'
Wednesday 18 January 2012; 6 pm
Dickens was the first, and probably remains the greatest, writer to use the experience of living and working in a great city as an integral part of his invention. He will always be associated with London. The Victorian city is uniquely recalled in his work and modern readers, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, are vividly reminded of a physical pattern of streets, houses and public buildings transformed by a great writer's imagination. Andrew Sanders, whose study, 'Charles Dickens's London' was published in 2010 will illustrate his talk with images drawn from a wealth of historic prints and photographs.
All Welcome. Attendance free. Refreshments provided.
SHeLF visit: Wellcome Library
Wednesday 22 February 2012; 2pm
SHLF members only, limited numbers
SHeLF Visit: Society of Antiquaries
Tuesday 13 March 2012; 10:30am
SHLF members only, limited numbers
Talk by James Shapiro
Tuesday 24 April 2012;
Talk by Peter Mack, Warburg Institute, ‘Print and Innovation in Sixteenth Century Rhetoric: Agricola, Erasmus and Melanchthon’
Wednesday 2 May 2012; time tbc
All Welcome. Attendance free. Refreshments provided.
Talk by Dr Carlos Galvis, IHR Transport collections in the Goldsmiths’ Library.
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 6 pm
Book Talk*: Best Sellers
Wedesday 23 May 2012, 6 pm, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, led by Professor Michael Slater
Wednesday 6 June 2012, 6 pm Two stories by Sherlock Holmes (‘The Empty House’ and ‘The Adventures of the Speckled Band’), led by Dr. Emelyne Godfrey
Wednesday 12 June 2012, 6 pm, The Thirty Nine Steps, by John Buchan, led by Dr Kate Macdonald
*Book Talk is a series of seminars led by academics, and discussed by the group.
All are welcome.
Do the reading, so you can join in the discussion!
To register for any of these events, or to join Senate House Library Friends, please contact: Senate House Library Office, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8432;
Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk
