News, Programs, Publications, and Awards

Previous articleNext article FreeSociety InformationNews, Programs, Publications, and AwardsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNewsBSA Annual Meeting: 24 January 2020The Bibliographical Society of America will hold its 2020 Annual Meeting on Friday, 24 January 2020 at Convene, 237 Park Avenue, New York City. Winners of the 2020 New Scholars Program will present their fifteen-minute papers at 2 pm, with a question and answer period to follow. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 4 pm, with an abbreviated business meeting followed by a panel presentation. Coffee and light refreshments will be served after New Scholars presentation; a reception will follow the Annual Meeting.The theme of the 2020 annual meeting presentation is “Bibliography and Technologies,” and it will feature short papers from panelists Lisa Fagin-Davis (The Medieval Academy of America), Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins University), and Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library). Elizabeth Haven Hawley (University of Florida, Gainesville) will deliver a formal response and moderate a brief question and answer period.In addition to the Annual Meeting, the BSA will host a gathering for members and bibliophiles at the American Jewish Historical Society, 15 West 16th Street, New York City, on Wednesday, 22 January 2019. This will be an early evening event featuring tours the AJHS’s NEH-funded exhibition, “From Sitting Room to Soap Box: Emma Lazarus, Union Square, and American Identity.” Exact time and other details are available on the BSA website.❧Annual AppealPlease Support the BSA Annual AppealPlease remember to support the BSA with a gift to the annual appeal. Donations in any amount help us expand our events programming to reach new and established audiences across the United States and beyond, offer more support to New Scholars, and continue to build our fellowship program. For more information, including a link to make a secure donation by credit card and instructions for mailing a check, please visit https://bibsocamer.org/news/bsa-2019-annual-appeal/.❧EventsThe BSA Program Committee Calls for ProposalsIn accordance with our identity as an international, interdisciplinary scholarly organization that fosters the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, the Bibliographical Society of America pursues its mission by hosting public programs and collaborating with related organizations to do so. The Program Committee calls for proposals to invite collaborations between the Program Committee, BSA members, and a broader bibliographical public. The BSA aims to sponsor a calendar of varied programs each year, which can include but are not limited to lectures, workshops, conference sessions, and receptions following events which are bibliographical in nature.In all BSA events, the material text—that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact, broadly conceived—as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, analytical, historical, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.Proposals for events taking place between August and December of 2020 are due on 15 April 2020. Proposals for events taking place between February and April 2020 were due by 15 October 2019.Please visit the URL below to review application guidelines and the application form: https://app.mykaleidoscope.com/scholarship/bsaprogramsRecent EventsOn 11 October 2019, the BSA sponsored a two-hour workshop on Islamic Manuscripts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The workshop was led by BSA member Margaret Squires, Curatorial Assistant at the MFA Houston.On 11 October 2019 the BSA sponsored a workshop in Feminist Bibliography led by BSA member Sarah Werner at the Folger Shakespeare Library.On 12 October 2019, the Working Group for International Development and Collaboration co-sponsored a panel presentation “Toward Inclusive Bibliography, Los Angeles” with the Los Angeles Public Library and University of California, Los Angeles Library. The panel featured presentations from Ani Boyadjian (Principal Librarian, Research & Special Collections, LAPL); Su Chen (Head of the East Asia Library, UCLA); Marina Garone Gravier (Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas), and Xochitl Oliva (Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, LAPL). Professor Garone Gravier presented in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English. A video of the event is available on the BSA’s YouTube channel, at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUetIQJTMlSn0Zubqa_C8ZQ/.On 15 November 2019 BSA Executive Director Erin Schreiner and BSA member Jesse Erickson (University of Delaware) led a workshop on descriptive bibliography at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, for fifteen participants who were attendees of the Black Bibliography Project Conference. The BSA co-sponsored this event and the conference reception.Upcoming EventsThe following events are confirmed for 2020, with more in the works. Please check your email and the BSA website for announcements regarding conference panels, workshops, and more BSA Programs for 2020.The BSA will again co-sponsor, with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, a lecture at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, which will be held from 7–9 February 2020 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. The theme of the 2020 fair will be “Votes for Women: Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment.” Full details will be published this later winter on the BSA and California Book Fair websites.In March of 2020 the BSA and Renaissance Society of America will co-sponsor a talk by Seth Kimmel (Columbia University) on the recent discovery of an inventory of the library of Hernando Colón, the younger son of Christopher Columbus. The event will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. Full details will be published this later winter on the BSA website.❧ProgramsNew Scholars ProgramThe Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print or manuscript). Papers of new scholars are published in the December issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of the proceedings of the annual meeting. The 2019 BSA New Scholars are Lucas Dietrich (Lesley University), Megan Piorko (Georgia State University), and Lindsay Van Tine (University of Pennsylvania).Applications to the 2020 New Scholars Program were due on 3 September 2019. The 2021 program will be announced in the late spring of 2020. Visit the New Scholars website for further information. https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/Community Grants ProgramIn 2019, the Society disbursed five (5) grants, in amounts of up to $200 each, to support gatherings that promote the BSA mission and values, and introduce the BSA to new audiences. The five individuals below submitted winning proposals.— Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Grant funds support workshops at UC Boulder introducing students and faculty to Chinese language print collections and the bibliographical analysis of Chinese books in Norlin Library.— Genevieve Coe, MLIS Candidate at the Pratt School of Information. Grant funds offset the cost of a tour and printing demonstration at the Woodside Press, located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.— Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Granary Books. Grant funds will support a small hands-on exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library in New York. The exhibition will also host a panel talk that discusses the role of bibliography within community-based special collections at CUNY’s Center for the Humanities in Fall 2019.— Allison McCormack, Original Cataloger for Special Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. Grant funds will sponsor a public event introducing faculty, students, and community members to print, manuscript, and archival special collections at the University of Utah, with the intention of building awareness not only of collections themselves but also of their broad accessibility.— Nick Wilding, Professor of History at Georgia State University. Grant funds will support a prize for undergraduate book collecting at Georgia State, specifically a talk at the awards ceremony by Rosa Duffy, visual artist and owner of the For Keeps bookshop in downtown Atlanta.We hope to continue this new program in 2020. If you have any questions about BSA’s Community Grants, or if you would like to support this program with a gift, please contact Executive Director Erin Schreiner at [email protected].❧FellowshipsAnnual FellowshipsEvery year the Society offers a variety of fellowship in support of bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Applications for the 2020 award cycle were due on 1 November 2019, and winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society the following January. Details of the program are located at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/, or can be had by contacting Hope Mayo, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, [email protected].❧Triennial AwardsSt. Louis Mercantile Library PrizeFunded by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, an institutional member of the Society, this prize encourages scholarship in the bibliography of American history and literature. Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award of $2,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. Submissions for the prize were due on 1 November 2019. Deadlines for the 2023 competition will be announced in spring 2022, and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2019.For further information on the Mercantile Library Prize, including upcoming submission deadlines and how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/st-louis-mercantile-library-prize/.William L. Mitchell PrizeThe Bibliographical Society of America invites submissions for its seventh William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. The deadline for the 2021 competition is 15 October 2020, and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2017. The winner of the William L. Mitchell Prize will receive a cash award of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.The Mitchell Prize for research on British serials was endowed to honor William L. Mitchell, former librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, where he was curator of the Richmond P. and Marjorie N. Bond Collection of Eighteenth-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals and of the Edmund Curll Collection. It was conceived and mainly endowed by Mitchell’s colleague at the Kenneth Spencer Library, Alexandra Mason. The Prize serves as an encouragement to scholars engaged in bibliographical scholarship on eighteenth-century periodicals published in English or in any language but within the British Isles and its colonies and former colonies.For further information on the Mitchell Prize and to learn how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/william-l-mitchell-prize/.Justin G. Schiller PrizeEndowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, 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.Deadlines for the 2022 competition will be announced in spring 2021, and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2018. For further information on the Schiller Prize and to learn how to apply, see the Society’s website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/justin-g-shiller-prize/.❧Calls for MaterialsCall for Society Archives MaterialsShould you have BSA historical material that may be suitable for the BSA Archives in formation, kindly get in touch with BSA Archival Consultant, Miwa Yokoyama ([email protected]) to make arrangements for sending your material to the Grolier Club Library, which is the repository for the BSA records. The BSA Archive is particularly in need of officer’s records, councilor’s files, and BSA documents from the 1904–1950 era. With the appreciation of the BSA Archives Working Group, R. Dyke Benjamin, Chair, BSA Archives Working Group.Call for Addenda and Corrigenda: A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 through 1820Since its publication in 2012 by the Pennsylvania State University Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, readers have kindly reported several newly discovered editions and a few corrections to Roger E. Stoddard’s American Verse. At Mr. Stoddard’s request, the book’s editor, David R. Whitesell, has assumed responsibility for collecting and disseminating addenda and corrigenda. Readers are encouraged to submit reports of unrecorded editions, additions, and corrections to information published in American Verse, and reports of copies either not noted or not described by Stoddard. Addenda and corrigenda will be published periodically in an appropriate forum, such as the Bibliographical Society of America’s BibSite, http://bibsocamer.org/bibsite-home/.Please submit all information to: David R. Whitesell, Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400110, Charlottesville, VA 22904; [email protected].American Verse encompasses “all the poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed, in the form of books or pamphlets, before 1821. No broadside (a single leaf printed on one or both sides) or leaflet (two conjugate leaves) is included… . Also omitted is ‘incidental verse,’ that is, poetry printed in the midst of or appended to a prose work. If, however, a poem is cited on the title-page of a prose work, then that work is described. All languages are included, as well as translations, and there is no limit on place of publication.”❧Publications of the SocietyAvailable through Pennsylvania State University PressKaren Nipps, Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints (2013).Roger E. Stoddard, edited by David R. Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 (2012).Catherine M. Parisian, ed., The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue (2010).Available through Oak Knoll PressTrevor Howard-Hill, The British Book Trade 1475–1890: A Bibliography (2009).Andrea Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50 (2008).Milton McC Gatch, The Library of Leander van Ess and the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets (2007).Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens, Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children’s Book Publishing in England 1650–1850 (2006).Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of “The Wealth of Nations” in French and in France, 1776–1843 (2002).Sidney F. and Elizabeth S. Huttner, A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1821–42 (1993).K. I. D. Maslen, An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers, with a Supplement to the Bowyer Ornament Stock (1973), an Appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson Partnership, and “Bowyer’s Paper Stock Ledger” by Herbert Davis (1993).K. I. D. Maslen and John Lancaster, eds., The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son Reproduced on Microfiche, with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699–1777, a Commentary, Indexes, and Appendixes (1991).Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidence and Principles (1990).C. Paul Christianson, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300–1500 (1990).William B. Todd and Anne Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955: A Bibliographical History (1988).The Bibliographical Society of America, 1904–79: A Retrospective Collection (1980).Sidney L. Gullick, A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800 (1979).Hazel A. Johnson, A Checklist of New London, Connecticut, Imprints, 1709–1800 (1978).M. A. Shaaber, Check-list of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages other than English, to 1641 (1975).Denis B. Woodfield, Surreptitious Printing in England, 1550–1640 (1973).Margaret B. Stillwell, The Beginning of the World of Books, 1450 to 1470: A Chronological Survey of the Texts Chosen for Printing during the First Twenty Years of the Printing Art, with a Synopsis of the Gutenberg Documents (1972).Donald D. Eddy, A Bibliography of John Brown (1971).Roger Bristol, Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography (1970).Frederick R. Goff, ed., Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (1964).Jacob Blanck, Virginia L. Smithers, and Michael Winship, eds., Bibliography of American Literature, 9 vols. (1955–91)Available through ACLS Humanities E-BooksC. U. Faye and W. H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962).Warren S. Tryon and William Charvat, eds., The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and their Predecessors, 1832–1858 (1949).Joseph Sabin, continued by Wilberforce Eames and R. W. G. Vail, Bibliotheca Americana : A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, vols. 20–29 (1928–36). 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/10.1086/705945 © 2019 by the Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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