InsideArts Debate: What are libraries for?

TheCentre for Material Textsbrings together scholars from across the University of Bristol with collective interests in the many and various aspects of book culture. We embrace a broad understanding of the material text from the ancient world through to the digital age (including scrolls, papyri, magazines, newspapers, screens etc.), encompassing the network of agents involved in book production and dissemination, as well as readers and users of books.

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What are libraries for? 
What have libraries been? What are they now? What can libraries be? What should they be?
This InsideArts debate, sponsored by the Centre for Material Texts, brings together library users with librarians, researchers, and creative writers to discuss what libraries have meant to us in the past, what they mean to us now and what they might mean to us in the future.
Confirmed speakers include Philip Kent, Director of Library Services & University Librarian (Bristol), Suzanne Paul, Keeper of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts (Cambridge), Mimi Thebo, Author, Royal Literary Fellow, and Reader in Creative Writing (Bristol).
The debate is open to the public and free to attend, but please sign up to attend using Eventbrite.
After our speakers have set out their positions they will be responding to questions from the audience. Please email questions which you would like our panel to answer to arts-books@bristol.ac.uk by 12 noon on Friday 16 February. We will choose a representative sample to be discussed.
Doors will open at 5.30pm.

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