Author Thomas E. Johnson, Jr. will discuss “The Public Library in America: a Key Post-Independence Institution Promoting the Common Good”. Johnson is the author of “Common Place: The Public Library, Civil Society and Early American Values”. The talk will cover the theory of the commons, the contents of "Common Place," the history of public libraries in New England, and the future of public libraries as a prominent contemporary institution in the commons particularly in the looming age of AI disruption. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.
