This event will introduce the priceless resources of the first charging ledger. Attendees will be invited to speak with Conservator George Muñoz about the conservation of the ledger and see before-and-after images. Head of Systems/Project Coordinator Ingrid Richter will demonstrate the uses of the ledger website, such as finding a book, a patron, or just an engaging fact. Selected eighteenth-century books mentioned in the ledger will be displayed. Historian Thomas Fleming will speak briefly about the history of the early national era and the importance of the ledger as an artifact.
Thomas Fleming is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers (Smithsonian, 2009). He has been the president of the Society of American Historians and of PEN American Center. Mr. Fleming is a frequent guest on C-SPAN, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel.
The Library's archives and charging ledgers are supported in part
by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and generous individuals.
