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Museums10 Presents Books to Blogs and Back

Museums10 presents Books to Blogs and Back, the last of its three major programs in the festival, BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book. The dynamic weekend November 15-18, 2007 includes major events hosted on the campus of Mount Holyoke College to explore the role of text in the digital age and beyond. Most events are free and open to the public. A full schedule of the Books to Blogs and Back weekend is below and can also be found on the Museums10 Web site: www.museums10.org/BookMarks.

Two days of programs have been organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, a Museums10 member, together with two of the many BookMarks participants, the Mount Holyoke College Library, Information, and Technology Services (LITS) and the Hampshire College Center for the Book. Events:

Thursday, November 15, 2007

7:00 p.m.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Gamble Auditorium
Keynote lecture: “The Research Library in the New Age of Information” by Robert Darnton

Friday, November 16, 2007

9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Miles-Smith Wing, Information Commons
Books to Blogs Expo
Interactive activities and exhibits relating to the history of book creation and publication. Mount Holyoke College Library, Information, & Technology Services (LITS).

11:00 a.m.
Mount Holyoke College LITS, Dwight 101
Lecture: “Farewell to Gutenberg” by Jason Epstein

1:30 p.m.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Gamble Auditorium
Panel discussion: “The Past and Future of the Book”

Corey Flintoff, Moderator

Terry Belanger: “Books and Horses”

Sven Birkerts: “The Hive Life”

Lisa Gitelman: “Reading at Risk”

3:30 p.m.
Mount Holyoke College LITS, Williston Library Courtyard Reception
7 p.m.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Opening and Reception
Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture Book Art

Saturday, November 17, 2007

10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Historic Deerfield, Wilson Printshop
The Printer’s Apprentice
Program free with Museum admission
2 p.m.
Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke
Shakespeare’s Geneologies
A talk and book signing by author, Vanessa James

Sunday, November 18, 2007

2 p.m.
Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Luegner)
Based on the novel by Jurek Becker. His widow, Christine Becker, will be at Amherst Cinema to talk about Jurek Becker's life and written work. $7.50 adults; $6.50 students and seniors; $5.50 members.

The weekend also includes the opening of The Eric Carle Museum's second BookMarks exhibition, Children Shall Be Seen: The Image of the Child in America Picture Book Art on Friday, November 16. On Sunday, November 18, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center will present a screening of the East German film Jakob the Liar, based on the novel by Jurek Becker.

The theme of the weekend was conceived by staff at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, one of the lead institutions in Museums10, a three-year-old partnership of college and independent museums in the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts dedicated to promoting the cultural riches of the region. "The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and Museums10 are very proud to sponsor this incredible weekend of events," states Marianne Doezema, director of the MHCAM. "We are particularly delighted to have with us such prominent figures as Robert Darnton, Jason Epstein, Terry Belanger, Sven Birkerts, and Lisa Gitelman in our investigation of these important topics.

We and Museums10 have also been fortunate to have many exceptionally dedicated partners throughout the BookMarks project," continued Marianne Doezema. "This year's initiative owes a great deal to our friends in the Mount Holyoke College Library Information and Technology Services and the Hampshire College Center for the Book for helping to put this exceptional weekend together."

Museums10 members include the Amherst College Museum of Natural History, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens, the Hampshire College Art Gallery, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the National Yiddish Book Center, and Historic Deerfield, Inc. The partnership is facilitated by Five Colleges, Incorporated.

Museums10 and BookMarks: a Celebration of the Art of the Book are generously sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council's John and Abigail Adams Arts Program, The Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, Veridian Village at Hampshire College, 88.5 FM -- WFCR NPR News and Music for Western New England, WGBY, Preview Magazine, Cross-Culture Journeys, Coastal Outdoor Advertising, Marcus Printing, and Ruth and Spencer Timm.

Originally posted 10/30/07

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