Members are free. Please “add to cart” if you plan to attend to help with the event planning. If you plan to bring a guest, add 2 to cart. This helps us plan food, beverages and seating.
Guests are $50/each. Guest payment will be accepted at the door as cash, check or charge.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
4:00pm – 6:30pm
FOUNDERS HALL
CHARLES TOWNE LANDING
1500 Old Towne Rd, Charleston, SC 29407
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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 of Philadelphia was founded in 1731 and is the oldest subscription library in the United States. Huguenot immigrant Louis Timothée served as the first salaried librarian for Benjamin Franklin and his Junto. Later Timothée would move to Charleston where he would assume responsibility of the South-Carolina Gazette for Franklin. Louis’ son, Peter, would later become one of the founders of the Charleston Library Society, the third oldest subscription library. Ms. Dorman will provide a talk on the Library Company and its first librarian.
The Library Company hired Louis Timothée in November 1732. When Timothée left for Charleston the following year to become a printing partner of Benjamin Franklin, 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. This history then ties into the Society’s Revolutionary Huguenots 250 program. It is a fascinating beginning to the Society’s enhanced celebration of America250 that will continue to the remainder of the year.
Ms. 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. Ms. Dorman 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, she 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. Please “add to cart” if you plan to attend to help with the event planning. If you plan to bring a guest, add 2 to cart. This helps us plan food, beverages and seating.
Guests are $50/each. Guest payment will be accepted at the door as cash, check or charge.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
4:00pm – 6:30pm
FOUNDERS HALL
CHARLES TOWNE LANDING
1500 Old Towne Rd, Charleston, SC 29407
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 of Philadelphia was founded in 1731 and is the oldest subscription library in the United States. Huguenot immigrant Louis Timothée served as the first salaried librarian for Benjamin Franklin and his Junto. Later Timothée would move to Charleston where he would assume responsibility of the South-Carolina Gazette for Franklin. Louis’ son, Peter, would later become one of the founders of the Charleston Library Society, the third oldest subscription library. Ms. Dorman will provide a talk on the Library Company and its first librarian.
The Library Company hired Louis Timothée in November 1732. When Timothée left for Charleston the following year to become a printing partner of Benjamin Franklin, 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. This history then ties into the Society’s Revolutionary Huguenots 250 program. It is a fascinating beginning to the Society’s enhanced celebration of America250 that will continue to the remainder of the year.
Ms. 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. Ms. Dorman 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, she 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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