Lunch with the Libraries: The Ephemeral Renaissance: The Unique and Impossibly Rare at Hopkins from the 15th to the 17th Centuries

Description

As information and "fake news" rocket through cyberspace, developments seem to burst on the scene, excite debate, and melt away in a haze of information overload. The general assumption is that our present-day fleeting information landscape is new. It is not! The invention of ephemeral information and the news cycle began many centuries ago with the advent of print. Our knowledge of that earlier history is imperfect and deeply fragmented, however, since so little of it has been physically preserved.

In this illustrated presentation, Earle Havens, curator of rare books and manuscripts in the Sheridan Libraries, will highlight how Johns Hopkins has been a leader in the recovery and exploration of this nascent, if fragmentary, ephemeral information landscape.

The program is co-sponsored by the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, and the Johns Hopkins Arts, Entertainment, Media, and Entrepreneurship Affinity Group.