We have two competing, antithetical missions for the Library of American Philosophical Society.
One is to make our truly remarkable collection available for study, just as freely and widely as possible. The other is to protect and conserve all its objects, to pass them on to the future in perfect condition.
Martin L. Leavitt, APS Librarian
I love this idea of two antithetical missions, which I suspect has a much broader applicability in political science, economics, family life, and you name it. I got to hear about it this morning in Philadelphia’s beautiful Library Hall because
Frank is a brand-new member this year at the APS.
Becoming an APS member doesn’t involve a propeller-hat or drinking games with older philosophers. Instead, it’s an opportunity for Frank and spouse to go to lots of amazing lectures on wide-ranging topics–for example, in this current meeting we’ll hear about Chinese poetry, Mayan hieroglyphics, and the courthouse iconography of justice.
I’m afraid we missed “Neuronal Replacement in the Adult Brain,” something I might need just to follow the rest of these lectures.