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Friends lecture examines necessity of printed books in a digital world

By Michael Worringer
Library Communications

Posted 11/7/2006

MADISON, Wis. – “The Printed Book in a Digital Age,” a lecture hosted by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library Nov. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in 126 Memorial Library, will feature UW–Madison interim Chief Information Officer Kenneth Frazier; former UW–Madison Libraries History of Science Bibliographer John Neu; and African Languages and Literature professor Harold Scheub.

Frazier will discuss the role and importance of printed books in an era of increased use of digitization practices. Neu and Scheub, both 2006 Parallel Press authors, will speak to the importance of small-press publishing. Parallel Press is an imprint of the UW–Madison Libraries.
 
Cover of The Tiger's ChildNeu will also hold a book reading and signing for his new Parallel Press novel The Tiger’s Child Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at Border’s Books and Music, 3750 University Ave. The novel follows a police chief and a writer in a small town on the Wisconsin River as they attempt to solve the mysterious, violent deaths that occur after a child releases wild animals from a private zoo.

Neu received his master’s in library science from UW–Madison in 1959 and was hired as a bibliographer in 1963, a position he held until his retirement in 1999. While working for the libraries, Neu wrote habitually in early mornings for his own pleasure. The Tiger’s Child is not the first book Neu has written, but it is the first published.

 

 

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