A Discussion with Gerber-Hart Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell

Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom. January Daytime Program Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history of LGBTQ peoples and additional […]

Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry

Sponsored by The Ticknor Society On Friday, January 20th, at 6pm ET, The Ticknor Society will host "Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry," a Zoom event open to all who are interested in, or even just curious about, how to craft a submission for this year's George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture […]

Bibliography Week

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America, The Grolier Club and others Jan 23-27 From Eric Holzenberg on the Grolier Club website: BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the book arts have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, […]

Finding Your Focus: A Roundtable for Aspiring Book Collectors

Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America Panel with past winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. This roundtable will feature recent winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young women book collectors. The panelists will share the experience of building their winning collections, with an emphasis on the moments […]

The Koran in English — From Yusuf Ali to Sandow Birk

Sponsored by The Book Club of California 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Pacific Time Virtual presentation For millions of Muslims, the Qur’an is sacred only in the original Arabic. Revealed to an Arab merchant Muhammad in 7th century Arabia, it calls itself “an Arabic Qur’an”. At once lyrical and adamantine, it resists translation into any […]

Speaking Texts: Recordings, Preservation, Accessibility, and Indigeneity

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America This panel brings together scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture. January 24, 2023 1 […]

Booksellers’ Bibliography Week Showcase Mini-Antiquarian Book Fair

Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Booksellers' Showcase, In Person Jan 25, 10:30 am-4:00 pm. At the French Institute / Alliance Française, 22 E 60th St, New York. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.  A special mini-antiquarian book fair. Join 35 exhibitors offering books, maps, ephemera, and more for sale at […]

Virtual Panel: Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jan 25, 2:30-3:30 Eastern time A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars - Christopher N. Warren, Max G'Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley - will speak on "Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing." At the heart of […]

The 2023 New Scholars Program, BSA Annual Meeting and Keynote by Dr. Kelly Wisecup, “Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books”

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America Friday, January 27 – 2pm-6pm Eastern | In-Person at Convene, 5:30 5th Ave. & Online The 2023 Annual Meeting and New Scholars Program will be held in-person and live-streamed to our virtual audience starting at 2pm Eastern with New Scholars' papers and a group question and answer session. […]

NYAM Aristotle’s Masterpiece: Reflecting On The Material Text

Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine Aristotle's Masterpiece, first published in 1684, was a steady seller into the 20th century, advising readers about sex and babies. Over the course of writing a book about the Masterpiece, Professor Mary Fissell looked at hundreds of copies. In her talk she will reflect on the relationship […]