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How is a national library to become capable of serving readers and non-readers alike? How can a national library convert non-readers into readers? These are some of the questions that Manguel addresses in this compelling chapter about his experience serving as Head of the National Library of Argentina.
Transcription of Presentation by Alberto Manguel at “Recording Lives: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age” Forum, October 6, 2017. Hosted by the Boston University Center for the Humanities at the BU Law School Alumni Auditorium.
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David Ferriero, the Tenth National Archivist of the United States, delivered a paper at our 2017 Humanities Center Forum on Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age, but was not able to develop his paper into an essay for this collection.
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Christopher Ricks was the respondent to Robert Darnton’s paper for the opening night of the Humanities Center Forum at The Boston Public Library, October 5, 2017.
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Manguel, A. (2020). A National Library in the Digital Age. In: Mizruchi, S. (eds) Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33373-7_4
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