Spring 2013 Event

Saturday, April 27, 2013, at 1:30 pm
Special Collections & Archives

"Reading Pride and Prejudice From Afar"

A talk by Associate Professor Juliette Wells: Two-hundred years later and thousands of miles away, how and why do we American readers continue to feel close to Jane Austen's world?  Including a discussion of the incomparable Austen collection donated to Goucher by Alberta Hirschheimer Burke '28. 

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Spring 2013 Co-Sponsored Event

Monday, March 25, 2013, at 3:30 pm
The Michael J. and Patricia K. Batza Room in the Athenaeum

"Information Makes Us Human"

At talk by Joe Janes, Associate Professor and MLIS Program Chair at the University of Washington's iSchool, about the "story of information" and its role in the world and in making us human.

Part of the Athenaeum Library Series, and sponsored by Friends of the Goucher College Library, Katharine Parker Scholl Library Fund, and Laura Cooper Graham Lecture Fund.

See the Goucher Press Release here.
 

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Fall 2012 Co-Sponsored Event

  Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at 6:30 pm
The Michael J. and Patricia K. Batza Room in the Athenaeum

"The Inaugural Applestein-Sweren Book Collecting Prize Award Ceremony"

The first award ceremony for the new book collecting prize.

See the Goucher Press Release here.

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Fall 2012 Co-Sponsored Event

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at Noon
The Sarah "Bunny" Siebert Curriculum Resource Center in the Library

"A Wrinkle in Time: A Celebration"

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time by reading the book aloud from start to finish. 

See the Goucher Press Release here.