Monday, January 13
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
The Morbid History Book group is a book group that meets after work and discusses important but often ignored or uncomfortable history. This group will meet on the 2nd Monday of each month, after hours at the library, for those who work days.
The book for January is Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.
