The event explored libraries across multiple dimensions -- physical, digital, representational -- and their epistemic, organizational, and memory functions. The roundtable opened with a Jorge Luis Borges quotation about "the vast, contradictory Library" as metaphor for human imagination and knowledge construction.
Speakers
Daniel Goroff
Vice President and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Economics, Harvey Mudd College
Anthony Grafton
Professor of European History, Princeton University (since 1975)
Visiting professor at College de France, the Louvre, and other institutions.
Carol Mandel
Dean, NYU Division of Libraries
Leader in research librarianship during digital transformation.
Alberto Manguel
Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator, and critic
Former director of Argentine National Library; Formentor Prize 2017 recipient.
Ken Soehner
Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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