For those of you who might be interested, I am speaking at an upcoming mini-conference being held at Southern Seminary, November 2, 2011. I will be speaking on Pierre Viret from a much-expanded form of a paper I delivered at the Refo500 Research Consortium (RefoRC) in Zürich last June, and will be drawing connections between his ecclesiology, his political writings, and his piety in a way that I hope will be helpful.

The conference is being hosted by The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Many, many, thanks to Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin for the invitation and opportunity.

La Réforme: Celebrating the French Reformation on the Quincentennial of Pierre Viret (1511–71), November 2, 2011 9am – 12pm, Heritage Hall, Southern Seminary.

Schedule: [Online]

• 9:00 am – An Introduction to the French Reformation
  Michael Haykin, Professor of Church History, SBTS,
  and the Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies
• 9:15 am – Pierre Viret and the Politics of Piety
  Paul Roberts, Director of Patron Services,
  James P. Boyce Centennial Library
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:35 am – Calvin and his Prayers
  Dustin Benge, SBTS Student
• 10:50 am – The Pastoral Vision of Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
  Shawn Wright, Professor of Church History, SBTS
• 11:50 am – Concluding Words

Popularity: 10% [?]

Many, many, thanks go to my colleague, Jason Fowler, and my new friends at The Association of Librarians & Archivists at Baptist Institutions (ALABI) for inviting me to give a presentation on Patron-Centered Spaces in Nashville last week. I enjoyed my brief time with them, and look forward to attending as a member in the future. They have graciously posted my manuscript for all who are interested.

I argued for Augustine’s definition of community from City of God, and then discussed the implications of this definition for a library’s physical and virtual spaces. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Readex Digital Institute
Speaker: Paul Duguid, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.
“The World According to Grep: Seeing the World through a Search Window”

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Speaker: Meg Bellinger, Director of the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure

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I will be trying my hand at live blogging this conference beginning with the keynote address on Wednesday morning at 9:00. The speaker is David Seaman, Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College. The live blog is interactive, real time, with occasional media.

Popularity: 27% [?]

Readex, a company that specializes in digiting historical primary source research materials, has graciously invited me to a conference on digital research — and is even footing the bill. Vermont. October. Leaves. Crisp autumn air. Bed and Breakfast. Very gracious, indeed.

About the Institute:

Held annually since 2003 in Chester, Vermont, the Readex Digital Institute offers a casual yet intellectually challenging forum for exploring the digital research universe. Past attendees, including a diverse group of academic librarians and faculty, praise the Institute for the unique platform it provides to discuss wide-ranging issues affecting 21st-century scholarship.

So, I will be blogging the conference for those of you with an interest in research. Partial agenda:

1. Tuesday, 10/7/08: Travel, dinner, Welcome and Introduction, Postprandial Comments.
2. Wednesday
   • Keynote: “From Ponderous Perfection to the Perpetual Beta: Library Services in an Age of Superabundant Information”
   • The Collections Collaborative: Putting Content Into the Flow
   • Tour of the Readex Digitization and Editorial Facility
   • The World According to Grep: Seeing Text Through the Search Box
3. Thursday
   • Libraries and Digitization
   • A Digital Humanities Approach to Understanding the Electronic ‘Book’
   • Research Techniques in Digital Context: Beyond “Nifty” and on to “Useful”
   • LibraryOn – In Search of a Library Platform
4. Friday, 10/10/08: Travel.

Follow my Facebook status for updates as I suffer and endure the Vermont autumn. The highlight of the trip may well be the Vermont Country Store. They have everything.

Popularity: 16% [?]