Talking about Reading Together with David Carr
David Carr discusses his research on cultural institutions as public forums in a democracy
Wednesday, Aug. 29
12:15-1:15 p.m., followed by brief discussion
UIC Institute for the Humanities
Lower level-Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan
David Carr, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “The Promise of Cultural Institutions and A Place Not a Place,” will discuss several books he is currently working on, including “When Communities Read,” an investigation of one-community/one-book reading projects using interviews with librarians and other advocates. He is also collecting a set of essays under the title “Possibilities of Public Learning” that will explore the themes of “tools, mastery and the unfinished issues of adult life; structure and contexts as invisible dimensions of process; and, cultural institutions as public forums in a democracy.” A third area of Professor Carr’s inquiry is identifying useful, interesting and generative but generally neglected and unknown paper reference works on library shelves.
This program was arranged by the Lectures and Forums Committee of the University Library. Contact Valerie Harris, 6-2742, for more information.
