Borges Meets Orwell: the 21st Century Research Library
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- Speaker(s):
- Christopher Pressler
- Event date:
- Tuesday 18 October 2011
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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Senate House Friends Charles Holden Lecture: Christopher Pressler (Director of Senate House Libraries): 'Borges Meets Orwell: the 21st Century Research Library'.
If Orwell met Borges in The Library of Babel what would he say? If Borges met Orwell in Room 101 what would he say?
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.
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