Yesterday afternoon we were happy to host Erin Valentino’s First Year seminar (“The Information Age & the Digital Divide”), as the students cover a unit on print culture and book history.  Each student has picked a book from the Watkinson (which range in date from ca. 1400 (a medieval Book of Hours) to 1860 (a guide for sailors) as a focus for their research.  Each student will write a contextualizing label, and all of the books (or scans, for the most valuable) will be placed on display in the Main Library’s atrium.  The “opening” event of this exhibition will be held during Common Hour on Tuesday, October 23rd.