INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
From Care to Connection. The Public Library as a Place of Community, Encounter and Shared Knowledge
Sunday 27 September, 2pm – ESSECI, Auditorium
With Fondazione Artea as part of the international project READING FORWARD – Dialogues on the library.
This international conference represents the natural continuation of the READING FORWARD initiative, bringing together some of the most authoritative experts in the field. It will be an opportunity for high-profile scholarly discussion, focusing on the role of public libraries in the 21st century, understood as places of care, knowledge production, participation, and community building. At the heart of the debate are the new cultural, social, and democratic models that are redefining the role of contemporary libraries.
Speakers: David Lankes, Virginia & Charles Bowden Professor of Library Science at the School of Information, University of Austin (Texas) – Ruth Soenen, PhD Anthropologist – Anna Maria Tammaro, Scholar of library and information science, former professor at theUniversity of Parma and editor-in-chief of Digital Library – Krist Biebauw, former Director of the De Krook Library, Ghent – Stefania Chiavero, Director of the Civic Library of Cuneo – Cristina Clerico, Councillor for Culture, Municipality of Cuneo – Davide De Luca, Director of the Artea Foundation.
How to participate
The event is free, but you must reserve your spot by clicking here (reservations open from September 16th).
