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Libraries HomeChief Curator of Early Collections at National Library of France to Lecture Oct. 8, 9
September 14, 2007
UO faculty, students, and staff are invited to two talks by Jean-Dominique Mellot, chief curator in charge of early collections at the National Library of France and faculty member at the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
On Mon., Oct. 8, at 10:30 a.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room, Mellot will discuss the status of digitization efforts at the National Library of France.
Mellot’s public lecture on Tues., Oct. 9, is entitled “The French Book Trade and the ‘Librairie du Royaume’ in the Age of Enlightenment.” It is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Browsing Room.
A historian of cultural practices in early modern Europe, Mellot is the author of the definitive history of the Rouen book trade (1600-1730), co-editor of the French National Library’s Répertoire of Printers and Booksellers (17th and 18th centuries), and co-editor of the forthcoming four-volume Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Livre. He currently is chief editor of an international publishing project on the history of book censorship in France and Russia, sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Both events are sponsored by the UO Libraries, Department of History, Oregon Humanities Center, Honors College, and Department of Romance Languages. For more information, contact John Russell, UO Libraries, 346-2689, johnruss@uoregon.edu.