Members are free. Guests $50/each.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
4:00pm - 5:00pm
FOUNDERS HALL
CHARLES TOWNE LANDING
DIRECTIONS >
Following the business portion from 4:00pm - 4:15pm, the program will feature special guest speaker Dana Dorman, Archivist, The Library Company of Philadelphia who will present the history of the library and its importance to the early colony. The Library Company hired its first Librarian, Louis Timothée (d. 1738), in November 1732. When Timothée left for Charleston the following year to become a printing partner of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Franklin himself took over as Librarian.
Members and their guests will enjoy learning of the direct connection of the Timothée family to the library and the further connection to the Charleston Library Society. All of this history then ties into the Society’s Revolutionary Huguenots 250 program of 2026. It is a fascinating beginning to the Society’s enhanced celebration of America250 that will continue through the remainder of the year.
Dana Dorman joined the Library Company in 2021. In addition to serving as Development and Special Projects Manager, Dana is Archivist for the grant-funded Library Company of Philadelphia Papers Project, which focuses on the processing and digitization of the Library Company’s first 150 years of history. Dana has more than 25 years of public history, nonprofit management, and fundraising experience, including as Archivist at the Historical Society of Haddonfield and as Project Archivist, Researcher, and Digital History Project Manager at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A Certified Archivist, Dana earned a M.A. in public history from Temple University and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Reception to follow immediately after the talk and all are encouraged to attend and enjoy the fellowship.
Members are free. Guests $50/each.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
4:00pm - 5:00pm
FOUNDERS HALL
CHARLES TOWNE LANDING
DIRECTIONS >
Following the business portion from 4:00pm - 4:15pm, the program will feature special guest speaker Dana Dorman, Archivist, The Library Company of Philadelphia who will present the history of the library and its importance to the early colony. The Library Company hired its first Librarian, Louis Timothée (d. 1738), in November 1732. When Timothée left for Charleston the following year to become a printing partner of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Franklin himself took over as Librarian.
Members and their guests will enjoy learning of the direct connection of the Timothée family to the library and the further connection to the Charleston Library Society. All of this history then ties into the Society’s Revolutionary Huguenots 250 program of 2026. It is a fascinating beginning to the Society’s enhanced celebration of America250 that will continue through the remainder of the year.
Dana Dorman joined the Library Company in 2021. In addition to serving as Development and Special Projects Manager, Dana is Archivist for the grant-funded Library Company of Philadelphia Papers Project, which focuses on the processing and digitization of the Library Company’s first 150 years of history. Dana has more than 25 years of public history, nonprofit management, and fundraising experience, including as Archivist at the Historical Society of Haddonfield and as Project Archivist, Researcher, and Digital History Project Manager at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A Certified Archivist, Dana earned a M.A. in public history from Temple University and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Reception to follow immediately after the talk and all are encouraged to attend and enjoy the fellowship.
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