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The Bibliographical Society of America welcomes proposals from institutions and organizations for the co-sponsorship of lectures, panels, seminars, workshops, and conferences in the field of bibliography. Broadly defined, this includes topics that deal with the creation, production, physical presentation, publication, circulation, and reception of books, as well as the bibliographical control of them. The BSA will promote these events to its membership and may be able to offer some financial assistance toward the cost of the programs. The co-sponsoring institution or organization is responsible for all local arrangements. The BSA recommends that inquiries be made at as early a stage in the planning of an event as possible. Inquiries and proposals should be sent via e-mail to bsa@bibsocamer.org or via post to: Program Committee, Bibliographical Society of America, P.O. Box 1537 Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021. 2 0 0 8
“Book Catalogues: Tomorrow and Beyond” A follow-up conference to the 1995 BSA invitational conference devoted to book catalogues was held at the Grolier Club on the Tuesday of Bibliography Week 2008. Speakers included:
BSA would like to thank The Grolier Club Council for its enthusiastic support for this conference, and donations received from two anonymous private donors and two ABAA benevolent funds. 2 0 0 7
“The Books of Venice: A Conference on the Book in Venice” BSA was a cosponsor of a SHARP-organized conference concerning the history of the book in Venice from the sixteenth century to the present. Keynote addresses were delivered by Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College), Neil Harris (Università di Udine), and Marino Zorzi (Biblioteca Marciana). There was also a half-day lecture and workshop entitled “Printing in the Shadow of Aldus Manutius” led by Peter Koch of Editions Koch. Other cosponsors of this conference included the Biblioteca Marciana, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; the event was been generously supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Nineteenth-Century Book
Conference Co-sponsored by BSA, the Grolier Club, and the Fales Library at New York University, this conference was one element in the “Festival of 19th-century Illustration” held in New York between January and April 2007. The festival included exhibitions at the Morgan Library & Museum (“Victorian Bestsellers”), the Grolier Club (“Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914”), and the Fales Library (“Nothing New: The Persistence of the Bestseller”). Related exhibitions and events were held during Spring 2007 at Bard Graduate Center, Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, Museum of Biblical Art, New-York Historical Society, and New York Public Library. Plenary presenters and their papers included:
Terry Belanger (University of Virginia) provided closing remarks. In addition, twelve short papers (chosen from approximately 55 proposals received) and separate presentations at the Museum of Biblical Art and the Grolier Club were delivered. Receptions were held at the Grolier Club, Fales Library, and the Morgan Library & Museum.
48th Annual RBMS
Preconference “Ephemera” BSA was a cosponsor of the 2007 RBMS Preconference, officially sponsoring the keynote address, “The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera,” delivered by Michael Twyman (Emeritus Professor, Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading). The preconference was devoted to ephemera, collections of which have been traditionally neglected by libraries and underutilized by scholars.
15th Annual SHARP
Conference A BSA-sponsored panel devoted to photographic illustrations in 19th-century books, was moderated by Caroline Duroselle-Melish. The session included the following speakers:
34th Annual Saint
Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies at Saint Louis University Sponsored by the Vatican Film Library The annual conference addresses topics in medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, including paleography, codicology, diplomatics, illumination, book production, papyrology, library history, reading and literacy, textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing. The BSA-sponsored panel, “Writing the Words in Italy, 10th to 15th Century,” organized by Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University), included the following speakers and papers:
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47th Annual RBMS
Preconference “Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?” BSA was a cosponsor of the 2006 RBMS Preconference, officially sponsoring a plenary session. This Preconference brought together professionals from both the library and museum fields to investigate common concerns relating to their shared missions to acquire, preserve, and make accessible the world’s cultural artifacts and historical documents, and to explore ways in which they can work more closely in the future. The BSA-sponsored plenary session focused on issues of curatorship and collection development in museums and libraries. The session included the following speakers:
14th Annual SHARP
Conference BSA-sponsored a panel devoted to “Emblem Books: Text and Image,” which included the following speakers:
Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina, served as moderator of this session for BSA.
33rd Annual Saint
Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies at Saint Louis University Sponsored by the Vatican Film Library The annual conference addresses topics in medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies, including paleography, codicology, diplomatics, illumination, book production, papyrology, library history, reading and literacy, textual criticism, and manuscript cataloguing. The BSA-sponsored panel this year, organized by Laura Light, was entitled “The Bible in the Thirteenth Century: Beyond the Paris Bible.” It consisted of the following speakers and papers:
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Annual RBMS Preconference "Bridging the Gap: Education and Special Collections." BSA was a cosponsor of the 2005 RBMS Preconference, held in St. Louis June 21-24, 2005. The third plenary session, officially sponsored by BSA, was entitled "Programs and Prospects: Education and Training of Special Collections Librarians and Archivists in the United States." The plenary, organized and moderated by Daniel J. Slive, BSA Program Committee Chair, included the following speakers:
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Annual SHARP Conference "Navigating Texts and Contexts" BSA sponsored a panel at the 2005 Annual SHARP Conference in Halifax. The session, entitled "New Scholarship in Book History and Print Culture," was organized and moderated by Patricia Fleming, University of Toronto. This session presented the work of doctoral students in the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture (BHPC) at the University of Toronto. As a former director of the Toronto program and a current member of the BSA council, Pat Fleming introduced the work of the following three BHPC students:
32nd Annual Saint Louis
Conference on Manuscript Studies This year’s conference included a BSA-sponsored panel organized and chaired by Gregory Pass on the subject of codicology. The theme of this session was devised to complement the topic of the conference’s guest speaker, Albert Derolez, who spoke on "The Codicology of Italian Renaissance Manuscripts: Twenty Years After." The following speakers contributed to the codicology session:
The session began with an introduction of the Bibliographical Society of America, its history and mission, reference to its support of medieval manuscript studies (including Faye and Bond), and a brief description of its fellowships, citing titles of medieval manuscript projects that had been supported in the past. The session was received with great interest and engendered lively discussion. All the papers were of importance. Robert Babcock's paper, in particular, gave the first public notice of the only original Greek epigram codex know to survive, now in the collections of the Beinecke Library. The speakers have been invited to publish their papers in Manuscripta. 2 0 0 4 45th
Annual RBMS Preconference "Ebb and Flow: The Migration of Collections to American Libraries" BSA was a cosponsor of the 2004 RBMS Preconference, held in New Haven, Connecticut June 21-24. The third plenary session, held on June 23, was officially sponsored by BSA, and the session began with a brief announcement by Daniel J. Slive, BSA Program Committee Chair. The speakers, and their papers, for this session were:
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Annual SHARP Conference "Crossing Borders" BSA sponsored a panel at the 2004 SHARP conference. The session, "Form and Function of Scientific Illustration, 1500-1900," was chaired by Hope Mayo, Past President, who discussed the history and current activities of BSA. Mayo also introduced the three speakers, all BSA members, and their papers:
BSA Centennial
Conference "Roughing It: Printing and the Press in the West" The Centennial Conference was a joint meeting with the St. Louis Rare Book Librarians Group, cosponsored by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University Libraries Department of Special Collections, with additional support generously provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The conference marked the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of The Bibliographical Society of America at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis on October 18, 1904. The program included papers on Western printing, publishing, and book distribution and the book culture of early St. Louis. Moderated by Nicolas Barker, the concluding session featured remarks on the history and future of BSA by past presidents Marcus McCorison, William Barlow, and Hope Mayo. The proceedings of this final session, along with remarks by other Past Presidents not able to attend the St. Louis conference, will be published in an upcoming issue of PBSA. Participants in Roughing It were invited to attend the guest lecture of the 31st Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies at Saint Louis University delivered on October 15 by Paul Needham (Scheide Librarian, Princeton University). They were also invited to attend a reception on October 16 held at the Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies for the exhibition Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library. This reception was made possible through the generous support of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 31st
Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies at
Saint Louis University In honor of the BSA Centennial Conference in St. Louis, the annual manuscript studies conference this year included special papers focusing thematically on the transition from script to print. BSA sponsored the first session, entitled "Illumination and Illustration in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books," organized by Hope Mayo. The speakers, and their papers, were:
In conjunction with both the BSA and Manuscript Studies conferences, a reception was held at the St. Louis Art Museum celebrating the opening of an exhibition of manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library entitled Painted Prayers: Medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. Participants in both the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies and Roughing It were offered a 20% discount on cross-registration for both conferences. 2 0 0 3 Opening plenary
sessions of the 44th Annual Preconference of
the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association
of College & Research Libraries of the American
Library Association in Toronto, Canada, 17-20 June 2003. BSA at SHARP At the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing, held in Claremont, California, July 9-12, 2003, the Bibliographical Society of American sponsored a session on "Three Bibliographic Projects." Organized and moderated by Daniel J. Slive, Rare Books Librarian at UCLA and a member of the BSA Program Committee, the session was designed to present information about three large bibliographical compilations of potential use to book historians. The presenters and their topics were:
This program marks the third year of successful collaboration between BSA and SHARP at SHARP’s annual conference. In addition to the persons named above, thanks are owed to Marie Korey, chair of the BSA Program Committee, and James Green, BSA liaison to SHARP, for their part in arranging the panel. 2 0 0 2 Conference on the "History of Libraries in the United States" held at the Library Company of Philadelphia, April 11-13, 2002. Sponsored by the BSA, The Center for the Book (Library of Congress), The Council of Library and Information Resources, and Princeton University. Trevor Howard-Hill spoke on "Bibliography and the History of the Book" at the SHARP Conference in London, July 10-13, 2002. 2 0 0 1 Paul Needham and Blaise Agüera y Arcas spoke at the Grolier Club on "How Were the Earliest European Printing Types Made?", January 22, 2001. Sponsored by the BSA and the American Printing History Association. "Round Table on Book Trade Archives: Problems and Promises" at the SHARP Conference in Williamsburg, July 2001. Session sponsored by the BSA. 1 9 9 7 "Marks in Books" conference held at Yale University, 27 January 1997. Sponsored by the BSA and Yale University. [Papers published in PBSA 91:4 (December 1997).] 1 9 9 5 Conference on "Book Catalogues" held at the Grolier Club, January 24, 1995. Co-sponsored by the BSA, with assistance from the Grolier Club, the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, and the Center for the Book. [Papers published in PBSA 89:4 (December 1995).] 1 9 9 3 Meeting on "Exhibiting Rare Books" in March 1993. 1 9 9 2 Conference organized by Trevor Howard-Hill at University of South Carolina, 6-8 March 1992. Sponsored by the BSA, the Thomas Cooper Library, the University of Carolina Southern Studies program, the Caroliniana Library, and the Department of English. [36 papers over three days, some of which appeared in PBSA] Conference celebrating the completion of the Bibliography of American Literature, held at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2 May 1992. Lecture co-sponsored by the BSA and the Syracuse Library Association. 1 9 8 9 Marcus McCorison spoke on "Independent Research Libraries, Scholarship, and the Nation" at the one hundred and forty-third election and annual meeting of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, February 7, 1989. Sponsored by the BSA and the St. Louis Area Rare Books Librarians’ Group. The BSA also acted as one of the participating sponsors of the Houston Conference on Forged Documents held at Houston, Texas, on 2-4 November 1989. 1 9 8 6 - 8 7 James M. Robinson spoke on "Reconstructing the First Christian Monastic Library," September 15, 1986, at the Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries Building. Sponsored jointly by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the BSA. Edwin Wolf 2nd spoke on "The Book Culture of an American Colonial City: Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers in Philadelphia," November 11,13, 18, and 20, at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored jointly by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the BSA. 1 9 8 5 - 8 6 Andrew Hoyem spoke at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library of Ohio State University on "Twenty-five Years of Fine Printing and Publishing," January 10, 1986. The occasion was a twenty-five-year retrospective exhibition of Mr. Hoyem’s work under the imprints of the Auerhahn Press (1961-1964), Andrew Hoyem – Printer (1965-1966), Grabhorn-Hoyem (1966-1973), Andrew Hoyem – Printer (1973-1974), and the Arion Press (1975-1985). The meeting was sponsored jointly by the Friends of the Libraries of The Ohio State University, the Libraries, and the BSA. The exhibition was arranged by Robert A. Tibbets, Curator of Special Collections at Ohio State University. 1 9 8 4 - 8 5 John Dreyfus spoke at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Austin at Texas on "The Making of the Gill Four Gospels," October 18, 1984. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center. 1 9 8 3 - 8 4 Owen Gingerich spoke at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, on "Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus: An Example of Renaissance Scientific Printing," November 14, 1983. Co-sponsored by the Houghton Library. Jan Fergus spoke at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, on "Readership in an Eighteenth-Century English Town," March 5, 1984. Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Library. [An expanded version appeared in PBSA 78:2 (1984), 155-213] A seminar on "Decorated Cloth in America: Publishers’ Bindings, 1840-1910" was held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, on March 10, 1984. Sue Allen spoke at the morning session on "Book Stamps Engraved by John Feely, 1842-1877"; Charles Gullans led the afternoon session with "The New Generation: Artist-Designers, 1880-1910." The seminar moderator was John Espey. Co-sponsored by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. |
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