The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss
with writer, artist and Stanford professor Jenny Odell
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, How to Do Nothing is an inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy and winning back our lives. Once we start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist and writer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The Paris Review. Her visual work has been exhibited in the United States at The Contemporary Jewish Museum and the New York Public Library, as well as internationally in France, China and Dubai. Odell has been an artist in residence at Facebook, the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Planning Department, and Recology SF. She is a lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University.
The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
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