Robert Darnton, director of the University Library at Harvard University and one of the preeminent scholars on France in the eighteenth century, will speak at Bryn Mawr College Thursday, November 8that 7:30 pm in the Thomas Great Hall.

The title of his lecture is Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books. His articles on ebooks and the proposed Digital Public Library of America in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and other publications in recent years have made him one of the the most influential and widely read figures on the future of books, scholarship, and academic libraries.