2011-12: Robert Darnton

2011-12: Robert Darnton

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Alpha Gamma Rho Hall - Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center

Books, Digits, and Dollars: A Design for the Future

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer university professor, emeritus, and university librarian, emeritus, at Harvard University. He has written authoritatively about a wide variety of topics, encompassing French cultural history; the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East Germany; the underground book trade in prerevolutionary France; communication networks in 18th-century Paris; and "the digital public library of America," the topic for the talk he presented at UC Davis.

Robert Darnton speaking
Alt. Text: Robert Darnton speaking at a podium during a UC Davis History Department event.

 

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Alt. Text: Event poster for the Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture featuring Robert Darnton and his book, Books, Digits, and Dollars.

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