The value of patient, plodding books: how the comics industry courted mid-century US librarians
The value of patient, plodding books: how the comics industry courted mid-century US librarians
College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Stirling Maxwell Centre
Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge)
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/clust-centr/smc/
Document: Sutliff Sanders Event Poster
Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge) discusses 1970s and 1980s experiments in public libraries in the USA. When libraries sought to bring comics onto their shelves, librarians embarked on an ideological juggling to justify their experiments and make comics work in a library environment.
The event will be in-person and online. To receive your Zoom link register in https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-usqjgvHNyL6OdZl3DefGts8QjYqSFq
The event will be followed by the Stirling Maxwell Centre's AGM.