Date2023-11-15EventLIANZA 2023 ConferenceDuration0:36:09DescriptionLibraries have a long history of responding to the challenges of rapid and dramatic technological transformation. For LIANZA 2023 Conference Laurinda Thomas, Wellington City Libraries, talked to historians Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews, Scotland) about libraries past, present and future.
Andrew Pettegree, FBA is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication, including The Book in the Renaissance, The Invention of News, Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation, and, The Library: A Fragile History. His latest book, out in the autumn of 2023, is The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict.
Arthur der Weduwen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He is the author of six books, including Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2017), The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (2019), and The Library: A Fragile History (2021).
Lianza (17th Jan 2025). The Library: a Fragile History. In Website Lianza. Retrieved 9th Apr 2026 20:45, from https://lianza.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/6499
