“Gather Around the Table” at Temple University Libraries this fall
Please join us this fall for the Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programming series. This year our series, Gather Around the Table, will frame critical conversations around the common theme of food.
Please visit our full listing.
Upcoming programs include:
| • |  Wednesday, October 16 at 12:00 PMGood Morning, Beautiful Business: A Talk by Judy Wicks Join entrepreneur, activist and author Judy Wicks to discuss community engagement, environmental stewardship, responsible business practices, and her new book, Good Morning, Beautiful Business (Chelsea Green, 2013). A national leader in the local foods movement, Wicks is the founder of the famous West Philadelphia restaurant the White Dog Café. She also founded two local nonprofit organizations, the Sustainable Business Network of Philadelphia and Fair Food, and founded the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. |
| • | Thursday, October 24 at 3:30 PM What’s That You Said About Food: A Panel on Food Across the Media and in Popular These days, across almost every communicative medium, somebody is talking, and talking a lot, about food. Cooking blogs, FoodTV, restaurant critics, celebrity chefs, web series, journals, reality shows and food magazines abound. This panel discussion explores the explosion of foodie culture and looks at how food criticism and recipe sharing translate across various forms of media and popular culture. |
All programs are free and open to the public.
Public programs are held at Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk on Temple Main Campus, unless otherwise specified.
Help make programs possible and make a gift to the Libraries.
Inaugural Symposia
We invite you to join nine of the leading thinkers in information science for a symposium exlporing the places of libraries in the digital age.
Friday, October 18
1:00-5:30 PM
Klein Hall, Room 1E
1719 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
Presentation highlights include:
- The Net Needs What Libraries Know
David Weinberger, Senior Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone: The Intersection of Legacy and Innovation Defines the 21st Century Academic Research Library
Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services, Columbia University - Strategies for Urban Relevance: The Free Library in the New Century
Siobhan Reardon, President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia - From Collecting to Connecting: Engaging the Academic Community
Nancy Kranich, Lecturer, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University - The Network Changes Everything: Libraries/Librarians Without Borders
Rachel Frick, Director, Digital Library Federation Program, Council on Library and Information Resource - Friends in New Places: Special Collections in Special Communities
Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell University - Never Waste a Good Crisis
Bryn Geffert, College Librarian, Amherst College - Finding Common Ground: Libraries and Presses in the Scholarly Communication Ecosystem
Charles Watkinson, Director of Purdue University Press/Head of Library Publishing Services, Purdue University - After Alexandria: Library Buildings in the 21st Century
Craig Dykers, Principal, Snøhetta
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For more information and to register, visit: www.temple.edu/provost/symposia/
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