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SUMMARY:Assailing Mists of Tradition: The Deseret Alphabet Experience
DESCRIPTION:Following the 1847 establishment of a community in the Salt Lake Valley by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\, Church leaders established the University of Deseret. Its Board of Regents was made up of many of the Church’s leading figures and held its meetings in Brigham Young’s offices. Their purpose was to establish a curriculum for the territory with a special focus on assimilating waves of emigrants. Many converts left homes in Europe to travel to Utah. Brigham Young feared that an influx of non-English speakers would create fissures in the budding Mormon community. To avoid this\, Church leaders were determined to shift to a new alphabet. They also saw this as part of a radical break with established Anglo-American tradition. In 1854 Brigham Young put his weight behind a proposal to develop a new set of characters rather than use any pre-existing alternative alphabets. Thus the Deseret Alphabet was born. \nDespite some initial excitement\, efforts to install the new alphabet were hamstrung by a lack of type. Punches and matrices were secured from St. Louis\, Missouri in late 1859 but Brigham Young despised the font and it was shelved. After another decade of on-again\, off-again discussions\, Utah’s territorial government acquired two readers in the Deseret Alphabet from Russell Brothers American Steam Printing Company in 1868. In 1869\, 8000 parts of the Book of Mormon and 500 full copies were also printed by Russell Brothers. Once the books were shipped to Utah\, only a few hundred copies were sold. The project is traditionally viewed as a failure. The Deseret Alphabet today is a relic of Mormon exceptionalism\, but it has also become a means for linguists to study the historical development of English in Utah. Artists use the Deseret Alphabet as a lens into Utah’s culture and identity. Interest in the alphabet from academics and computer scientists led to the Deseret Alphabet’s adoption into Unicode in 2001. This presentation will delve into the history and use of the Deseret Alphabet. \nA presentation by Gregory Seppi\, curator of the 19th and 20th Century Americana Collection\, L. Tom Perry Special Collections\, Harold B. Lee Library\, Brigham Young University \n**The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West \nTo register to attend online\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/assailing-mists-of-tradition-the-deseret-alphabet-experience/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T193000
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SUMMARY:Martha Driver: Caxton's Translations
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nNov 9 FABS Handpress Era Group: Martha Driver “Caxton in Draft.” Martha will speak about William Caxton’s translations\, which are often said to be unoriginal and very close to his exemplars. In the case of three of his translations from the classics (Cato\, Aesop\, Ovid) this is not precisely the case. Instead\, Caxton is a creative adaptor and comic interpreter\, serving the interests of his perceived audience. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/martha-driver-caxtons-translations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T183000
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SUMMARY:Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nOverview\n\n\n\n\nWith Suzanne Karr Schmidt \n\n\n\n\nGrolier member Suzanne Karr Schmidt\, Newberry Library Curator of Rare Books\, will give a talk on her discoveries about centuries of books and printed images impressed on fabric. In a vibrant and multilayered preview of a Newberry exhibition\, Impressive Textiles: Printing on Fabric (opening Dec. 10)\, she will explore this overlooked medium’s incarnations from satin papal portraits and Foulis Classics on linen to cotton George Washington handkerchiefs. The exhibition catalogue will be available for sale and signing at the talk\, and Jamie Cumby\, the Grolier Club’s Ellen A. Michelson Librarian\, will display rare fabric printings from the club’s collection. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-impressive-textiles-premodern-printing-on-fabric-tickets-1993631494467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club. \n\n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/impressive-textiles-premodern-printing-on-fabric/
CATEGORIES:The Grolier Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T120000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Swift on A Triple Volley of Musketry: Curating & Collecting American Independence
DESCRIPTION:November Midday Program \n \nJanuary 3. Princeton\, New Jersey. They take the field. One side wearing blue uniforms. The other red. A victory today . . . but the series isn’t over. There will be more contests. \nIs this the famous first intercollegiate football game ever played? Nope. \nThis contest took place nearly a hundred years after Princeton squared off against Rutgers\, and while the combatants may have brought bands along\, there were no cheerleaders nor hotdog vendors present. \nIt was 1777 and it was a battle in a war that was made inevitable by the printing press. Newspapers led to incendiary pamphlets which led to a Declaration\, whose rare original Dunlap prints are among the most precious of American documents. \nGabriel Swift\, Librarian for Early American Collections at Princeton University\, will reveal a stunning collection of materials drawn from the library’s exhibition Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton & the American Revolution. His program will focus on traditional and new modes of celebrating\, curating\, and collecting on the theme of American independence. \nThough he isn’t a loyalist\, Gabriel does root for a team that wears red (well\, crimson & cream)\, having been graduated from Indiana University\, where he also was awarded an MA in history and an MLS. \nWhy not show your colors by registering today for this online presentation and Q&A? We make a confident Declaration that it will be a fast-paced\, informative\, and entertaining hour! \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register\, here. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/gabriel-swift-on-a-triple-volley-of-musketry-curating-collecting-american-independence/
LOCATION:Caxton Club
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261116T170000
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SUMMARY:Spelunking Rob Roy Kelly’s collection; or\, Adventures in typographic realia
DESCRIPTION:Rob Roy Kelly’s published research — including American Wood Type 1828–1900 (1969) — helped fuel a revival of interest in nineteenth-century American printing types. His work continues to be an important starting point for current scholarly inquiry. The University of Texas Press published a monograph David Shields researched\, wrote\, and designed: The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog\, which functions as a ‘close’ reading of the collection. \nDavid Shields approached the collection as more than simply the 18\,000+ pieces of wood type acquired by Kelly\, and have defined it more broadly as a range of objects\, publications\, research papers\, and attendant activities across several archives in the United States. Viewing the collection broadly has provided the opportunity to look past Kelly as the sole instigator and investigator and perceive him as a link in the broader network of relationships that led to the success of his research project. The physical presence of the published book has helped David reconsider his own research for the manuscript\, not simply as a mode of historicization\, but as development of a set of tools that could be useful to other (typographic) research projects. \nA virtual presentation by David Shields\, author\, design educator\, and Professor of Graphic Design at VCUarts\, Virginia Commonwealth University\, Richmond\, Virginia \nTo register for this online event\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/spelunking-rob-roy-kellys-collection-or-adventures-in-typographic-realia/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T163000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nNov 19 FABS Bindings Group: This group devoted to the art\, craft and history of bookbinding meets monthly on Zoom at 4:30pm PST. To join their mailing list\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-11/
CATEGORIES:FABS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nNov 19 Join the FABS 19th Century group on Zoom for congenial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-24/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261123T181500
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SUMMARY:Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History over the Last 10\,000 Years
DESCRIPTION:In this sweeping environmental history of the Mono Lake Basin\, Robert B. Marks reveals a larger story of how human actions and natural forces shape the environment. He begins with the region’s Indigenous peoples\, followed by the mid-nineteenth-centry arrival Euro-American settles and the dispossession of the Kootzaduka’a people. In the decades that followed\, struggles for the control of water diverted nearly all freshwater out of the basin to Los Angeles\, precipitating an ecological crisis by the 1970s. The responding environmental restoration movement has\, for now\, preserved the Mono Lake Basin. A dramatic hopeful history this book explores a beloved region to illuminate questions of water\, power\, and our relationship with the natural world that echo far beyond the American West. \nA virtual presentation by Robert B. Marks\, author and Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies\, Whittier College\, Whittier\, California \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/deep-time-in-the-mono-lake-basin-nature-and-history-over-the-last-10000-years/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T183000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nNov 23 FABS Living With Books Group. NOTE NEW TIME OF 5:00pm Eastern. Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-12/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261215T190000
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SUMMARY:Eileen Buckholtz on "Queens of Code"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nOur speaker for December 15\, 2036 is author Eileen Buckholtz. Her 2026 book\, Queens of Code\, explores the increasingly important role of women in the dawn of the computer age and beyond\, within the clandestine halls of the super secret National Security Agency. \n\n\n\nFor a link contact Binnie Syril Braunstein\, bsbgc@aol.com\n\n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/eileen-buckholtz-on-queens-of-code/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T183000
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SUMMARY:Centuries of the Black Press in America
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nOverview\n\n\n\n\nWith Alvin Patrick\, Frankie Hutton\, Mark Whitaker \n\n\n\n\nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition Black Brilliance: An American Chronicle \nIn a talk co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society\, Grolier member and CBS News executive producer Alvin Patrick\, in conjunction with his 2026-2027 club exhibition Black Brilliance: An American Chronicle\, will explore the 200-year history of the Black press in America. He will be in conversation with Frankie Hutton\, award-winning author of The Early Black Press in America\, 1827 to1860\, and author Mark Whitaker\, former editor of Newsweek and the first African American to lead a national newsmagazine. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-program-centuries-of-the-black-press-in-america-tickets-1993631769289?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club. \n\n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/centuries-of-the-black-press-in-america/
CATEGORIES:The Grolier Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270107T193000
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SUMMARY:Blood & Art: The Many Lives of Medieval Wine
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nOverview\n\n\n\n\nwith Bruce Holsinger \n\n\n\n\nIn partnership with the New York Medieval Society and the Medieval Academy of America\, the Grolier Club will host “Blood & Art: The Many Lives of Medieval Wine\,” a lecture by Bruce Holsinger. The talk will explore the cultural histories of wine in the European Middle Ages through the books\, documents\, poems\, and other written sources that shaped the vinous imagination of the era. Holsinger\, the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia\, specializes in the literature and culture of the medieval world and is author of The Parchment Inheritance: Animals\, Archives\, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (Yale\, 2022)\, among other works. This special lecture honors the legacy of Speculum\, the MAA’s premier quarterly journal devoted to the Middle Ages. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-blood-art-the-many-lives-of-medieval-wine-tickets-2003367741845?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/blood-art-the-many-lives-of-medieval-wine/
CATEGORIES:The Grolier Club
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