A talk and powerpoint presentation about Walt Whitman in Brooklyn by Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian and Curator of Books at the Brooklyn Museum

Sunday, May 13th, 3 p.m. (Mothers Day)

$5 per person

Deirdre Lawrence will focus on Whitman’s interest in the arts in Brooklyn. Whitman was the librarian of the Brooklyn Apprentices Library which later became the Brooklyn Museum.

A slide show and presentation by Rick Prelinger & Megan Shaw Prelinger of the Prelinger Library

To Build a Library: An Analog Landscape in Eight Squares
September 5th

Founded by Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger, and based in San Francisco, the Prelinger Library is an access-oriented, image-rich experimental research library of books, printed ephemera, and over 600 periodical titles. It serves readers, artists, scholars and other iconoclastic thinkers and is centered on histories of U.S. regions, culture, industry, landscape, natural history, media, and politics.

Grand Opening

Proteus Gowanus Grand Opening, November 12, 2005.