ALCTS President's Program at ALA: Deep Reading in the Digital Age
From:
"Taylor, Anneliese" <Anneliese.Taylor_at_ucsf.edu>
Please join us at ALA Annual for the:
*ALCTS President's **Program*
*Three Short Stories about Deep Reading in the Digital Age*
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Our burgeoning digital culture has all kinds of effects on usespecially
on our brains and how we think and read.
Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of
the Reading Brain, will share three stories to consider:
* the transition from a literary to a digital culturewith its
concomitant effects on the changing reading brain
* the beauty and the threats of the digital milieu on the next
generation of readers
* the stewardship role played by the library in the preservation of
"deep reading" in our culture
Join ALCTS President Mary Page in welcoming Professor Wolf as she shares
her stories.
Dont miss this program!
*Date:*Monday, June 29
*Time:*10:30 a.m.12:00 noon
*Location:*Moscone Convention Center, 3014-3016 West
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ALCTS <http://www.ala.org/alcts/> is the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services division of the American Library
Association.
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Anneliese Taylor
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections
University of California, San Francisco Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
(415) 476-8415
anneliese.taylor_at_ucsf.edu <mailto:anneliese.taylor_at_ucsf.edu>
Received on Fri Jun 05 2015 - 03:07:51 EDT
