{"id":1458,"date":"2016-09-15T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:16","slug":"curating-our-time-focus-on-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/2016\/09\/15\/curating-our-time-focus-on-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Curating Our Time: Focus on the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-698x1024.jpg\" alt=\"fotb-invitation-fall-2016-v3\" width=\"453.7\" height=\"665.6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus on the Book<\/strong><br \/>\nIn this age of e-books and e-readers, the word \u201cbook\u201d has taken on new meanings. Yet the book in its printed form endures and is highly sought after by the general public, libraries, and book collectors. This lecture series has been created to celebrate the book in print, its form, function, and beauty, its historical importance and lasting nature. Come celebrate with us a \u201ctechnology\u201d that has been around since Johannes Gutenberg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/Enniss-photo-credit-Pete-Smith-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"enniss-photo-credit-pete-smith\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Stephen Enniss<\/strong> is Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held previous appointments at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Emory University\u2019s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. His research interests are in twentieth century poetry, and he has written on Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney, among other figures. He co-curated the award-winning Grolier Club exhibition <em>\u201cNo Other Appetite\u201d: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry<\/em>. He is past recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship from the University of London, and he is the author of <em>After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon<\/em> (Gill and Macmillan, 2014). He is currently at work on a collective biography of the Belfast Group poets.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the Newberry Library.<br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of Pete Smith.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>Marianne Ryan, Dean of Libraries at Loyola University Chicago<br \/>\nand David Spadafora, President of the Newberry Library<\/p>\n<p>cordially invite you to the fourth annual<br \/>\nFOCUS ON THE BOOK<br \/>\na lecture by and for bibliophiles, featuring<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Enniss, PhD<br \/>\nDirector, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n<p>Curating Our Time: The Story of the Harry Ransom Center<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 30, 2016<br \/>\nReception at 5 p.m., Program at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Regents Hall, 16th floor, Lewis Towers<br \/>\nLoyola University Chicago<br \/>\n111 E. Pearson Street<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois<\/p>\n<p>RSVP by November 21 to Svetlana Surkevicius at 773.508.2641 or <a href=\"mailto:esurkevicius@LUC.edu\">esurkevicius@LUC.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"fotb-invitation-fall-2016-v3\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2016\/09\/FOTB-invitation-Fall-2016-v3.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=center>Focus on the Book<\/p>\n<p align=center><strong>Stephen Enniss, PhD<\/p>\n<p align=center>Curating Our Time:<br \/>\nThe Story of the Harry Ransom Center<\/p>\n<p align=center>November 30, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5858,6851],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}