Nora Davies on Crymes and Rhymes: The Broadside Ballad and the Celebrity Criminal

Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: FRI 9/13/2024 12:00PM CT/1:00PM ET. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance–Zoom presentation and optional lunch ($35) following. Reservations required by 12PM CT 9/11/24. Seating limit is 24. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: September Midday Program […]

FABS Bindings Zoom Group

Sponsored by FABS The Bindings Interest Group hosts discussions and presentations that share collections and information on bookbindings of all periods. Topics include, but are not limited to, history, design and aesthetics, innovation, materials and craft techniques. You are welcome to join us! To get on the mailing list contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)  

Spencer Stuart: “Members Needed: Sustainable Futures for Bibliophilic Societies.”

Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Please join us on Tuesday, September 17, at 7:00 pm  EDT/4:00pm EDT (via ZOOM) when Collections Advisor Spencer W. Stuart shares insights and common challenges from recent organizational audits for Bibliophilic societies as well as other cultural organizations worldwide. The COVID Pandemic was an extremely disruptive period for non-profit cultural organizations. Some pivoted to online offerings and expanded their audiences, while others recoiled due to a pre-COVID lack of long-term planning. Emerging from this, many Societies still have major issues to address in order to attract new members, maintain their financial commitment and foster their volunteer support. Through this talk, we will explore what is currently required to carry out this process and the potential outcomes it can generate for an organization seeking to both maintain current membership and grow long-term. This program is not being recorded! So come prepared to listen and learn - and take copious notes! To receive a link please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein The Baltimore Bibliophiles BSBGC@aol.com 443-519-6366 www.BaltimoreBibliophiles.org

FABS 19th Century Zoom Group

Sponsored by FABS 19th Century Group (third Thursday of the month). Congenial conversation on all things 19th-century and bookish. You are welcome! To join the list contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org

Brendan Dooley on Renaissance Transmission of News

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for this live webcast via Zoom. Brendan Dooley, professor of Renaissance Studies, College of Arts, University College Cork, will lecture on one of the Renaissance's great forgotten inventions: regular public transmission of written news. Although exchanging information of general interest regarding daily occurrences has been a feature […]

In Person: Book Club of Washington 2024 Emory Award

Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington FABS members are invited to join the BCW for this in-person event Sept 22, 2:00pm PDT  RSVP required. Tanya Patton, Elise Severe, and Deb Fortner from Dayton, Washington are receiving the 2024 Emory Award for their leadership in saving the Dayton Memorial Library in Columbia County, Washington. Without their actions, […]

FABS Living With Books Zoom Group

Sponsored by FABS This congenial group explores all the pleasures and challenges of home libraries: Acquisition; History of Collecting; Cataloging and Photographing of collection materials; Home libraries; Book furniture; Conservation and Storage, etc. You are welcome to join us! Topics for September: Flat Storage in the Library. (art, manuscripts, other documents) Storage for your Ornamenta […]

Anthony Bale: A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as British historian, professor, and author Anthony Bale discusses his new book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes, with Grolier Club member Gillian Adler. This talk is co-sponsored by Dr. Adler's new foundation, the New York Medieval Society. Professor Bale will explore a range of sources - maps, […]

William Claspy on Charles Dickens in America

Sponsored by NOBS Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society invites you to this Zoom event Thurs Sept 26, 7:00-8:30pm EST. Charles Dickens in America: Bringing to Light a Previously Unrecorded Gem in the Kelvin Smith Library. William Claspy, team leader for University Archives and Special Collections at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University, will […]