Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Friday, 25 January 2019, The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Bibliographical Society of AmericaMinutes of the Annual Meeting: Friday, 25 January 2019, The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NYPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreReport of the PresidentBarbara Shailor. Ms. Shailor welcomed the assembled membership to the 144th annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America. She announced that this year’s business meeting would follow the pattern of last year’s in its brevity, to allow ample time for the annual program. This year’s program, “Collections, Faculty, Librarians, Disciplines: Teaching Bibliography,” would address such questions as why we should be concerned about the classroom and about individual mentoring; how we actually teach bibliography in different disciplines and at different types of institutions; and, what the future challenges will be for all of us as we begin to deal with issues of technology, forensics, and other exciting developments in the field.The first order of business was to acknowledge a major change in the BSA’s organization. Asking Michèle Randall to stand, Ms. Shailor commended her for being a mainstay and a steadfast presence in the BSA for more than twenty years. She thanked Michèle before the assembled membership for her long service and dedication to the organization, to great applause.Next, Ms. Shailor extended a warm welcome to Erin Schreiner, the Society’s new full-time Executive Director, who started her duties in September. It had long been an objective to put in place a single individual dedicated to the Society as its full-time leader, and Ms. Shailor said how pleased she was that Ms. Schreiner was excited to take on this role. She then acknowledged the search committee, officers, and Council for their efforts in effecting the transition. She gave special thanks to Martin Antonetti, who co-chaired the search committee with her and provided constant guidance and advice about all aspects of the Society as she made the transition to President. She also thanked the other members of the search committee – Michael Ryan, Jennifer Lowe, and Barbara Heritage – as well as Scott Clemons and Joan Friedman, all of whom played important roles in conducting a successful search that had almost thirty applicants. Finally, she thanked those members in the audience who had served as references for the candidates, written letters for them, and shared insights with the search committee. The change in the organization’s leadership, along with its refreshed mission statement and new set of twenty-first-century values, were all good reasons to be energized about the future.Report of the Executive DirectorErin Schreiner. Ms. Schreiner greeted the assembly and thanked Ms. Shailor for the introduction. She talked about how pleased she was to be stepping into this role, and what an exciting time of growth it was for the BSA. She illustrated the point by highlighting recent accomplishments of some of the organization’s committees. The Fellowship Committee’s strong and diverse applicant pool of almost seventy attests to the academic interest in bibliography that continues to drive the growth of this important program. The Program Committee has scheduled programs for every month of the calendar year; this list (viewable on the BSA’s website) includes conference panels, workshops, and other types of events. An exciting development brought about by the Publications Committee is access to the full archive of PBSA for BSA members through their MemberPlanet account. The Membership Working Group has produced an exciting new brochure for the Society, which the members hope will be widely shared. Ms. Schreiner extended special thanks to the BSA’s committee chairs – Sonja Drimmer (Programs), Douglas Pfeiffer (Publications), Joan Friedman (Audit), Elizabeth Ott (Membership), Nina Musinsky (International Development and Collaboration), Jackie Vossler (Finance), and Hope Mayo (Fellowships) – as well as all those serving on their committees, for making the BSA a vibrant organization. There was a round of applause. She urged those assembled to renew their memberships, or, if they were first-time attendees, to join, and she thanked the room for its support of the organization and its bibliographical endeavors.Presentation of the Schiller PrizeAndrea Immel. Endowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, and awarded every three years, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. Ms. Immel announced that the fifth Schiller Prize was awarded to Dr. Maroussia Oakley for her 2016 monograph, The Book and Periodical Illustrations of Arthur Hughes: ‘A Spark of Genius’ 1832–1914, published by the Private Libraries Association and Oak Knoll Press. Ms. Immel praised the work, stating that “Dr. Oakley has succeeded in bringing Hughes out of the shadow of his better-known Pre-Raphaelite brothers in this well-written volume, beautifully designed by David Chambers.” She commended Oakley’s historical method, stating, “Even though Hughes’s daughter destroyed his personal papers, Oakley was able to discover a wealth of documentary evidence in Great Britain, America, and Canada about his relations with the hawkers and publishers of the works he illustrated during a long career.” Ms. Immel concluded that it was the “revelatory selection” of Hughes’s illustrations for Christina Rossetti, Good Words, and The Sunday Magazine that are “perhaps the best evidence for [Oakley’s] claim that Hughes was one of the best English illustrators of the nineteenth century.” In accepting the prize, Ms. Oakley spoke of her great debt to David Chambers and the Private Libraries Association and her gratitude to Leonard Roberts, whose vast knowledge about Hughes and his works had been invaluable to her throughout her research. Expressing the hope that her book would help to bring the work of Arthur Hughes to a wider audience, she thanked the BSA for the tremendous honor of the prize.Report of the SecretaryJennifer Lowe. Ms. Lowe reported that at the close of 2018, the BSA had 451 members in the following categories: honorary (4), lifetime (50), leadership (14), sustaining (74), partner (279), and emerging (30). This represented a decrease of 36 members since the previous year. The total number of subscriptions to the PBSA was 526, an increase of 43 over the previous year. Finally, she reported that in 2018 the Society had lost six of its members: Douglas F. Bauer, J. Hanrahan, William Helfand, Ian Jackson, William Reese, and Linda Smith. The association observed a moment of silence.Report of the TreasurerG. Scott Clemons. Mr. Clemons gave an efficient overview of the Society’s 2018 operating expenses, 2019 budget, and investment allocations. Comparing the 2018 actual of ($163,412) to the 2019 budget of ($169,008), he pointed out that there is little change. Supporting revenue is largely driven by a combination of membership dues and Annual Fund donations – “keep up the good work and please respond enthusiastically when you get that letter from Barbara later this year.” The endowment is an important part of our support as well; it helps us to prevent an operating deficit.The five categories in which we spend money are the BSA office, overhead, professional services, PBSA, and grants and awards. The goal is to keep the first three as flat as possible to allow growth in programs, and that goal is clearly visible in the 2019 budget passed by Council: PBSA sees an increase, and grants and awards exceed $50,000 for the first time in Mr. Clemons’s experience with the BSA. Spending on programs helps to raise the profile of the Society and identify and attract new members.Mr. Clemons pointed out that the spending rate of the endowment, currently at 5%, had successfully been kept from exceeding that threshold for the past number of years. Our investment funds ideally should generate at least a 5% return on average over time, plus a little more to keep up with inflation. The BSA hired a new investment manager in January 2016, and since then our funds have returned on average 7%. In terms of allocations, roughly 80% of our investments are in equities and stocks (half domestic and half foreign) and 20% in bonds. To illustrate the Society’s drawdown and growth in dollars rather than percentages, Mr. Clemons displayed a slide showing investments as of January 31, 2016 at $3,003,190. Our withdrawals since then totaled $324,999. In the same period, the portfolio grew by $670,362, putting our total investments at $3,348,554 as of January 18, 2019. We have successfully kept ahead of inflation.Mr. Clemons expressed gratitude to the committee members on the spending side of the equation as well as to the Finance Committee and its chair Jackie Vossler for watching over the investment side. He concluded, “Your society is in good shape and with continued attention will remain so.”Report of the Nominating CommitteeElizabeth Denlinger for Martin Antonetti. Ms. Denlinger acknowledged the members of the 2018 Nominating Committee: herself, Barbara Heritage, and the chair Martin Antonetti. She then announced the following candidates for the Council Class of 2022: Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Alice Schreyer, Ken Soehner, and, for a second term, Jackie Vossler. The slate was unanimously approved by the Society’s membership.Report of the Audit CommitteeJoan Friedman. The Audit Committee met with our independent auditors, Condon, O’Meara, McGinty, & Donnelly. This year the Society contracted for a full audit. Our auditors have given the Society’s books and operations a clean bill of health and reported good working relationships with the BSA officers and executive directors. Ms. Friedman thanked the members of the committee, John Bidwell and Tad Boehmer, as well as Scott Clemons, Jennifer Lowe, Jackie Vossler, Erin Schreiner, and Michèle Randall for their hard work and sound advice.Report of the Fellowship CommitteeElizabeth Denlinger for Hope Mayo. Ms. Denlinger announced the following fellowships awarded for 2019: a BSA Short-Term Fellowship to Hwisang Cho of Emory University for “Writing in Squares: The Eurasian Nexus in Korean Buddhist Textuality,” to Ainoa Castro Correa of the Universidad de Salamanca for “The Book Before The Book,” to Stephanie Frampton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for “Cicero’s Library: The Roman Book and the Making of the Classics,” to Carson Koepke of Yale University for “The Role of Tironian Notes in Early Medieval Educational Culture,” to Jane Raisch of the University of York for “Unmasking the First Facsimiles (1500–1800),” to Andrea Van Leerdam of Utrecht University for “Woodcuts as Reading Aids: Illustrations and Knowledge Transfer in Netherlandish Medical-Astrological Books, 1500–1550,” and to Matthew Wills of the University of California San Diego for “Mediating the Message: Book Culture and Propaganda in Mao’s China”; the Katharine F. Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and The British Book Trades to Anna Reynolds of the University of Oxford and University of York for “Binding Waste in Early Modern England”; the Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellowship in Bibliography and The British Book Trades to Janet Tyson for “A Curious Undertaking: The Collaborative Making of a Herbal in Georgian Britain”; the Pine Tree Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography to Caroline Barta of the University of Texas at Austin for “Kitchen Literature: A Biography of the Cookbook”; the Pine Tree Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography to Lorenzo di Tommaso of Concordia University for “Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius in Mediaeval Spain”; the Charles J. Tannenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography to Rodney Kite-Powell of the Tampa History Center for “Collectors’ Bias in Assembling a Map Collection”; the Charles J. Tannenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography and a Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in America to Jill Falcon Mackin, Edna Manitowabi, and Tasha Beeds of Montana State University for “Anishinaabe Movement Through a Sacred Landscape: Red Sky’s Birchbark Scrolls”; a Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in America to Eric Lamore of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez for “Abigail Field Mott’s 1829 Abridged Edition of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative: A Critical Edition”; the BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century to Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle of Oakland University for “Gender, Disability, and Finding Women in the Archives: Establishing the Provenance of the Marguerite Hicks Collection, 1660–1820”; the BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography to Caroline Wigginton of the University of Mississippi for “Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Material of Early American Books”; and the BSA-Rare Book School Fellowship to Matthew da Mota of the University of Toronto.Closing RemarksBarbara Shailor. Concluding the formal part of the business meeting, Ms. Shailor made a plea for the membership’s generosity. Pointing out that the Society this year had more applications for fellowships – and more excellent ones – than ever before, she noted that our ability to award these grants is dependent on the philanthropy of numerous people. Our future, especially with emerging scholars, is going to be about supporting their bibliographical endeavors. She asked the membership to think about this request and promised it would not be her last. She then welcomed the panelists to the stage for a lively and informative program. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 113, Number 4December 2019 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/705887 © 2019 by the Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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