Manuscript Society: Reading Marks on Silver Free Webinar
2022-09-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society

‘Reading’ Silver – How to identity those marks. Sterling or silverplate? Domestic or foreign?
Free – Live Webinar, Special Date – Tuesday, September 6, 2022

8:00 PM Eastern [one hour], Question and Answers at the End
Hosted by Brian Kathenes
Great Grandmother’s Silver. Now it is your silver, and you don’t know anything about it. What is its value? How is it valued? What do those marks mean on the base?
Appraiser Leon Caster, ISA CAPP, will share a brief, understandable, and entertaining guide to help you tell whether something is silver, silverplate, or something else. Discover how easy it is to identify both domestic and foreign silver, and decipher marks used by makers. You don’t have to be a silversmith to get it.
Guest: Leon Caster, ISA CAPP
Leon is a lifelong appraiser having been almost literally born in the antique and auction business in northern New Jersey. After gaining educational degrees (B.A. and M.T.S.) he joined the family firm in Branchville in 1974 as auction manager and appraiser. A few years later he joined the International Society of Appraisers at their inception. He quickly became accredited with both ISA and AAA (Appraisers Association of America) receiving his certification in Antiques & Residential Contents.
He has held almost every position within ISA including being one of the original board members, chair of the Foundation for Appraisal Education, and Director of Education. In the past, hehas been an Adjunct Professor at Centenary College (University) and for the University of Washington. He is currently a USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) certified instructor and teaches classes, webinars, and seminars across the US.
Currently, he is Senior Partner of National Appraisal Consultants. His specialty is ever expanding from the mundane to the unusual and weird. His expertise has been used by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, the Department of US Homeland Security, the FBI, US Marshall’s Service, and provides appraisals on a regular basis that go before the IRS, the US Federal and State Courts, and insurance arbitration umpires.
Leon enjoys sharing his knowledge and likes to make it enjoyable and understandable. He co-hosted the lively and entertaining “Value This with Brian and Leon” – a nationally syndicated public radio antiques and collectibles radio talk show.
Link to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4506431294785604619

"International Escapades of a Book Lover" with Professor Art Seto
2022-08-28 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Online Sunday, August 28, 1 p.m. Los Angeles time
Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org
Professor Art Seto will introduce us to some of the museums, libraries and other book and printing centers that he has been motivated to experience by his fifty-year love of print and books. His academic career has taken him to conferences all over the world, where he constantly discovers new bookish opportunities. He will highlight visits to such institutions as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany, The Getty Museum, The Huntington Library, The Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and other select venues across the USA, Canada, and Asia.
Art Seto
Professor Seto’s love of print began during two years of graphic arts classes in high school, where he was fortunate to have after-school access to the printing shop. This early exposure was followed by 23 years working full time in the printing industry, beginning with an indentured bindery apprenticeship.
For the past 17 years, Associate Professor Art Seto has been teaching bookbinding, letterpress printing and other courses at the Graphic Communications Management program at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). In addition to teaching, and researching and disseminating scholarly information on print and book topics, Professor Seto is a hands-on practitioner as a letterpress printer and book artist. His related research interests are in the areas of historical and modern street literature, chapbooks, and zines.

Scores & More with Andria Hoy, Cleveland Orchestra Archivist
2022-08-25 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
Thursday, August 25, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Time
Ta dum. Hands clapping for Franz Welzer-Most approaching the Director’s podium.
Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek into the Archives of the Cleveland Orchestra as Archivist Andria Hoy shares stories about the scores, photos, programs, and objects that reside inside Severance Hall.
We will be meeting in person with the option of attending via zoom. Masks required.
Join Zoom Meeting
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
2022-08-22 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Los Angeles time | A live online via Zoom and in-person event
Join us in-person or online via Zoom to view seldom seen photographs from the Book Club archives and help us identify the members and guests pictured at various events.

Register to attend the virtual presentation on Zoom

On Collecting and Legacy with Spencer Stuart
2022-08-14 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org
August 14, 2:00pm Los Angeles time
Collectors are custodians. The materials that make up their collections are, in most cases, temporarily orbiting around the ideas that ground the collection.
“On Collecting and Legacy” deals directly with late stage collecting and available strategies for those considering “what’s next” for their collections based on the contents, intentions, and timeframes available.
This presentation will explore when one is ‘ready’ to consider these questions and what one must do to prepare for the process. Below are links to three short articles to read prior to attending the presentation.
On Legacy: What Time Affords
On Legacy: Redistributions
On Legacy: Conclusion
Spencer W. Stuart
Spencer W. Stuart provides advisory services to private collectors as well as institutions aiding in the design and execution of collection development, inventories, catalogues and collection appraisals as well as deaccession strategies.
Spencer Stuart holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London, England (recipient of the Director’s Award). Upon graduation he took a position with Bonhams Auctioneers where he worked closely with the North American Rare Books and Manuscripts department in Toronto and New York.
Spencer is an alumnus of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminars and completed course work through the Rare Book School (University of Virginia).
In concert with his advising, Spencer is an active writer and lecturer on histories of the printed word for a variety of publications including The Book Collector, Manuscripts, and Amphora as well as occasionally with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio: http://spencerwstuart.ca/media/

Manuscript Monday – Virtual Beach Party – You Ask!
2022-08-01 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Aug 1, 8:00pm-9:00pm EDT
Manuscript Monday – You lead the Discussion and ask the Questions
Hosted by: Brian Kathenes
It’s our Manuscript Monday Virtual Summer Beach Party!
We’ll open it up to a virtual gathering of friends, lively discussion, and a show and tell. Members of other FABS societies and the public are welcome to register and learn more about The Manuscript Society.
Get your camera & mic ready (if you wish) – We’ll ALL be live!
Show us a favorite item in your collection
Ask questions about collecting
Share a short collecting story
Discuss what’s new in the auction market.
Looking for a specific item? Let us know.
And find out what’s new at The Manuscript Society
Or just hang out and enjoy a virtual cocktail on the virtual Manuscript Society Beach.
REGISTRATION LINK: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2157927233929088013

Smithson to Smithsonian: The Legacy of James Smithson. A Panel Discussion
2022-07-27 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Join the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for a free virtual panel discussion.
Wed July 27, 5:00 ET
Over the course of 175 years, the Smithsonian has grown to encompass 21 museums and nearly a dozen research centers—becoming a global organization working across history, culture, and science. How a stranger’s legacy became the world’s largest museum and research complex is a story full of surprising twists and turns of fate. What do we know about the Smithsonian’s mysterious founder, a man who left his fortune to the United States, a country he never visited?
To celebrate the launch of our 175th-anniversary online exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian, we’ll explore the life and legacy of founder James Smithson with a panel of experts.
Featuring:
Heather Ewing, Author of The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian and Associate Dean, New York Studio School
Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural-History Rare Books, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Richard Stamm, Curator of Smithsonian Castle Collection, Smithsonian Institution
Steven Turner, Author of The Science of James Smithson and Curator Emeritus, National Museum of American History
Please join us online on Wednesday, July 27 at 5 pm ET. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the program.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiomUflTGq_VfDcvzwmAg

At Home Together: The Quarantine Public Library (Artists' Books)
2022-07-25 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
At Home, Together: The Quarantine Public Library
Monday, July 25, 2022, 5-6:15 PM
Online presentation via Zoom
Quarantine Public Library is a repository of one-page books made by artists, free for anyone to download, print and assemble—to keep or give away. Tracy Honn and Katie Garth launched the project in July 2020 in response to the loss of public space and institutional art access during the ongoing global health crisis. The site has connected new audiences across the world to books by more than 200 artists, writers, poets, and scholars. By provoking joyful interactions with printed artwork, QPL has worked to disrupt pervasive feelings of isolation during this pandemic.
More information is here: https://www.quarantinepubliclibrary.com
Tracy and Katie will discuss their collaborative project, and talk about its origins; their approach; collection curation; QPL’s reception, and some of its outcomes.
A live online presentation by Katie Garth, print-based artist, and Tracy Honn, printing history educator, curator, and letterpress printer
Register to watch the Live Stream on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5cGKl_xUQwewsn04iAioaQ

Virtual Tour: Howard Iron Works Printing Museum Oakville, Ontario, Canada
2022-07-24 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Sunday, July 24, 1 pm Pacific Time
“The most powerful machine ever developed by man was not the nuclear reactor nor the computer. It was the Printing press, without which neither would have seen the light of day”—Nick Howard.
The Howard Iron Works Museum and Restoration facility was founded by Nick and Liana Howard to realize their dream of creating a museum of printing history focusing on machinery from 1830 to 1950. This is possibly the largest collection of hand iron presses in the world. Each piece represents a key building block in the advancement of printing processes. The Howard Iron Works website www.howardironworks.org contains a wealth of information on the museum’s contents.
The collection features an impressive selection of iron presses, cylinders, platens and bindery equipment. Upon acquisition, all equipment is completely disassembled, repaired, and finished to “as new” condition. The Howards have also assembled an extensive collection of vintage printing-related books and technical and trade journals.
“The printing press itself is inanimate until someone locks up a chase full of type. Then, words and illustrations come alive”—Howard Iron Works website.
Book Club of Washington website
Register here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/howard-iron-works-printing-museum-virtual-tour

Leonard Marcus: You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
2022-07-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Wed July 20 at 7:00pm Eastern time
What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probed the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for young people for his book You Can’t Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell.
Register for this Zoom event by contacting Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com.

Nick Fry on "Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments"
2022-07-20 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Nick Fry will give an online lecture on “Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments.”
A Zoom talk by Nicholas Fry, curator of “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons,” on “Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments.” Offered in connection with the exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” curated by the St. Louis Mercantile Library, and running in the Grolier Club’s ground-floor exhibition hall through July 30, 2022. This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder. For those unable to join us for the session, the lecture will be recorded and made available a few weeks after the event on the Grolier Club’s Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/user4535612.
Register on the Grolier Club Eventbrite page:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-railroad-tycoons-tickets-340097309207?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Grolier+Club+Virtual+Lecture+on+Railroad+Tycoons&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

The Global Library Project: World Libraries in Photographs
2022-07-18 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
The Global Library Project
Monday, July 18, 2022, 6-7:15 PM
In-Person event & Livestream to Zoom
After 18 years of photographing libraries throughout the United States, Robert Dawson and Ellen Manchester took what they had learned and applied it to a global perspective. In 2016, they photographed more than 80 libraries in Northern and Eastern Europe, as well as in Ukraine and Moscow. Their journey took them from a library in the infamous refugee camp “the Jungle” in Calais, France, to Holocaust-haunted former synagogues turned into libraries in Poland, to libraries close to the hot war in eastern Ukraine, and finally, to a Russian State Library for young adults in Moscow. In 2018-2019, on a Fulbright Fellowship, Dawson and Manchester photographed libraries throughout Greece, Italy, and Israel.
The Global Library Project investigates the role of public and private libraries in communities throughout the world. It is the subject of an exhibition currently on display at the San Francisco Public Library.
An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by Robert Dawson, photographer, and Ellen Manchester, independent curator
Register to watch the Live Stream on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_86ql_iSqSUev-IYCxfGDzw

Aeschylus' The Suppliants: Theatre of War Project on Ukraine
2022-07-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
The Suppliants Project: Ukraine
July 16, 2022
8:00pm – 10:00pm Kyiv
1:00 – 3:00pm EDT
The Suppliants Project: Ukraine presents live, dramatic readings of Aeschylus’ play The Suppliants on Zoom—featuring professional actors and a chorus of Ukrainian citizens—to help frame global discussions about the War in Ukraine and the unique challenges now faced by the people of Ukraine and those who support them. Using a 2,500-year-old text as catalyst for a powerful, international discussion, The Suppliants Project: Ukraine will amplify and humanize the voices and perspectives of Ukrainian citizens, refugees, soldiers, immigrants, politicians, activists, and artists who will participate in the performance and discussion on their personal devices on Zoom from locations within Ukraine and in neighboring countries.
The Suppliants is an ancient Greek play about a group of refugees who seek asylum in the city of Argos from forced marriage and violence. The play not only depicts the struggle of these refugees to cross a border into safety, but also the internal struggle within the country that ultimately receives them, as its citizens wrestle with how best to address the crisis at their border and whether to go to war on behalf of the refugees seeking their protection.
Featuring performances by Oscar Isaac (Star Wars), Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man), David Strathairn (Nomadland), Kira Meshcherska (The City Was There, Amo, Track), Dmytro Zaleskyi (Doctor, Psychiatrist, Analyst, Head of the Mobile Medical Center, Ukrainian Territorial Defense), Lyudmila Yankina (Human Rights Defender, Humanitarian Volunteer, ZMINA Human Rights Center, Ukraine), Olena Martynenko (Communication Manager, Good Bread bakery, Kyiv), Tatiana Tolpezhnikov, (PhD in Economics, Refugee from Mariupol, Ukraine) and Roman Tolpezhnikov (Associate Professor & Dean, Mariupol State University, Refugee from Mariupol, Ukraine).
The event will be captioned in English and Ukrainian, and audio interpreted in Ukrainian.
The event will be co-facilitated by Bryan Doerries and Oksana Yakushko.
Support for our digital programming is provided, in part, by the Mellon Foundation.

Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries
2022-07-11 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America and The Book Club of California
“Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries”
Monday, July 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:15 pm Pacific Time
Speaker: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library
Located in Central London on the banks of the Thames, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England. Founded in 1610, its internationally important collections include medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 9th century onwards and early printed books, the archbishops’ personal libraries and many heterodox books that they confiscated, as well as extensive archival holdings up to the present. In 2021, the Library opened in a purpose-built new library building. Mr. Mandelbrote’s illustrated talk will look at the history of the collections and the people associated with them, while exploring some changing ideas of what a library is for. Before coming to the Lambeth Palace Library in February 2010, Giles worked for almost 15 years at the British Library as one of the curators responsible for the national collection of books printed in Britain during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. He is a scholar of 16th-century English religious printing, and of the use of libraries in the defense of religious orthodoxy by the Reformation archbishops of Canterbury, leaders of the Church of England; and has edited and co-edited numerous books in the fields of book history, the book trade, libraries and printing, including Out of Print and into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century; Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading; The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland; and Against the Law: Crime, Sharp Practice, and the Control of Print.
Virtual registration here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dFZ-HZB_TU6uBQ1SukrabQ

Dead Letter Office Photos: The Civil War’s Lost Sentiments
2022-07-05 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Free Live Webinar – Hosted by Brian Kathenes with guest Melissa A. Winn, director of photography for HistoryNet
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 (special date)
8PM Eastern Time
Dead Letter Office Photos: The Civil War’s Lost Sentiments
During the Civil War years, hundreds of thousands of young soldiers wrote letters home. The soldiers, often poorly educated, had never even addressed a letter. The recipient’s name and address on the envelopes were undecipherable. Sweeping changes to postage requirements and the interruption of mail in the seceded states also heavily impacted the delivery of letters. Those letters that could not be delivered were processed by the Dead Letter Office.

Many of these letters contained photos of the soldiers. By the end of the conflict, thousands of photos remained undelivered. They lingered in a photo album of sorts in a Post Office storeroom. There was little hope of finding their destination. Then Third Postmaster General Alexander Zevely arrived on the scene. He served from 1859-1869 and came up with an innovative idea. He ordered the photos be displayed in the Dead Letter Office Museum.
For the next fifty years, after the war, the employees of the Dead Letter Office went to extraordinary efforts to return these images to a rightful recipient. Melissa Winn will share photos of her collection of Dead Letter Office images and tell the touching story of these interrupted sentiments and the noble efforts by many to send them home.
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1948881485303274512
The Manuscript Society page for this event: https://manuscript.org/event/civil-war-photos-dead-letter-office-manuscript-monday/

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
2022-06-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
American Antiquarian Society
“Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era”
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Speaker: Author Sarah J. Purcell, Professor of History at Grinnell College, Iowa.
Information and Registration: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talk-spectacle-grief-public-funerals-and-memory-civil-war-era
Professor Purcell’s latest book examines how the public and often large-scale funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war, allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities, and set patterns for mourning culture and Civil War commemoration. After 1865, public funerals for such luminaries as Robert E. Lee, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass and Winnie Davis elaborated on these patterns and fostered public debate about the meanings of war, Reconstruction, race, and gender.

Library of America Live: Fiddler on the Roof
2022-06-29 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
“Fiddler on the Roof” on Stage and Screen: The Surprising Journey of a Great American Musical
Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 pm EDT
Speakers: Actors Rosalind Harris and Steven Skybell, and writer Michael Sragow; moderator Laurence Maslon, editor of LOA’s collection American Musicals
Information and Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fiddler-on-the-roof-on-stage-and-screen-registration-365863797467?aff=eventspage
Since 1964, “Fiddler on the Roof,” one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time, has captivated audiences in new forms, including Norman Jewison’s brilliant film adaption, and a recent acclaimed Yiddish-language off-Broadway production. In this live conversation presented online, you will hear from Harris, who played daughter Tzeitel on Broadway and in the 1971 movie; Skybell, Tevye in the 2019 Yiddish production; and Sragow, co-writer and co-producer of the new documentary “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen.” No charge, but registration required.

Nick Fry: "Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads."
2022-06-29 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club

Nick Fry will give an online lecture on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.”

About this event

Nicholas Fry, curator of “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons,” will speak on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.” His presentation will show the portrayal of railroad construction and workers in graphics from woodcuts to modern photographs. Offered in connection with the exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” curated by the St. Louis Mercantile Library, and running in the Grolier Club’s ground-floor exhibition hall through July 30, 2022.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-building-the-railroads-tickets-331977522707?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Grolier+Club+Virtual+Lecture+on+Building+the+Railroads&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

NOBS Forum: Celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses 100th Birthday with Bill Kennedy
2022-06-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
Thursday, June 23rd, 7-8:30 pm
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. Join Bill Kennedy, Irish music show host and former organizer of Nighttown’s Ulysses read-a-thon, which was held annually on Bloomsday (June 16), and NOBS to talk about one of the greatest novels of all times. Even though we won’t be meeting on Bloomsday, we can still raise a glass of whiskey or Guinness (metaphorically or literally, depending if we are meeting via Zoom or live) and toast to this most profound/confusing/challenging/add-your-own-adjective-here piece of literature.
This will be our first meeting in person after 2+ plus long years with also the opportunity to attend virtually. Note the time change (to accommodate Loganberry’s store hours).
Join Zoom Meeting
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Visual Poetry Exhibition at The Book Club of California
2022-06-20 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
June 20, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person exhibition opening and Livestream on Zoom
Poets, scribes, and printers throughout history have taken advantage of the fact that poetry is both a visual and a verbal art. From the collection of the Book Club of California, this exhibit looks at some of these multi-sensory works from the earliest known shaped poems, over twenty-three thousand years old, up to modern experiments in textual design.
Exhibition Opening with remarks by Elizabeth Newsom, librarian, Book Club of California
Register here to watch the livestream on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PzN87eadSxGvzBZvnFUSaQ?mc_cid=4a9a504b7b&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
* Exhibition on view June 20 through September 2, 2022

Morgan Library Interactive Spotlight Tours: One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses
2022-06-17 12:30 (America/New_York)
The Morgan Library

Join Morgan Docents for an interactive visual tour of the exhibition One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. We ask that you download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Friday, June 17, 2022, 12:30 PM

Tickets:

Free; limited availability, advance registration is required.

Registration will be open two weeks in advance of the program
Register here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/one-hundred-years-james-joyces-ulysses-0?utm_source=The+Morgan+E-Marketing&utm_campaign=ccd7099759-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_15_2019_17_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfa97b537e-ccd7099759-392748700

Bloomsday...and Bloomsyear
2022-06-16 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
Submitted by The Caxton Club
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this most distinctive novel of the 20th century, catch up on the epic Centennial Readings of James Joyce’s Ulysses sponsored by the Thornwillow Press.
Bloomsyear Centennial Reading

ABAA National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Deadline
2022-06-15 00:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
The ABAA is now accepting entries for the 2022 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors.
The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is open to all prizewinners of college book-collecting contests, whether or not first prize, as well as to interested students whose institutions do not offer formal contests or whose contests may have been canceled this year. (More information can be found here.) All entries should be submitted here…
All entries for the 2022 competition must be submitted by June 15, 2022. For more information on the contest, please visit contest.abaa.org…
The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is jointly administered by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), the Grolier Club, and the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

Meet the winners of the 2021 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest…

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Deadline
2022-06-15 00:00 (America/New_York)
The Caxton Club is a proud co-sponsor of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is an annual prize of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The prize was co-founded by Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney.
The contest is open to women book collectors in the United States, aged 30 or younger. Contestants do not need to be enrolled in a degree program, nor do they require a sponsor. Honey & Wax uses ‘women’ in its most expansive definition, one fully inclusive of non-binary, trans and gender-non-conforming individuals.
The winning collection must have been started by the contestant, and all items in the collection must be owned by her. A collection may include books, manuscripts, and ephemera; it may be organized by theme, author, illustrator, publisher, printing technique, binding style, or another clearly articulated principle. The winning collection will be more than a reading list of favorite texts: it will be a chosen group of printed or manuscript objects, creatively assembled, that shine light on one another. Collections will not be judged on their size or their market value, but on their originality and their success in illuminating their chosen subjects.
For more information and a link to apply, please visit https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
2022-06-13 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Monday June 13, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person event and Livestream on Zoom
Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the tradition of the dude ranch, America’s original western vacation, is much more interesting and deeply connected with the culture and history of the American West. In American Dude Ranch, Lynn Downey opens new perspectives on this buckaroo getaway, with all its implications for deciphering the American imagination.
Dude ranching began in the 1880s when cattle ranches ruled the West. Men, and a few women, left the comforts of their eastern lives to experience the world of the cowboy. But by the end of the century, the cattleman’s West was fading, and many ranchers turned to wrangling dudes instead of livestock. What began as a way for ranching to survive became a new industry, and as the twentieth century progressed, the dude ranch wove its way into American life and culture.
Downey follows dude ranching across the years, tracing its influence on everything from clothing to cooking and showing how ranchers adapted to changing times and vacation trends. Her book also offers a rare look at women’s place in this story, as they found personal and professional satisfaction in running their own dude ranches.
However contested and complicated, western history is one of America’s national origin stories that we turn to in times of cultural upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the real to the imagined past, and their persistence and popularity demonstrate how significant this link remains. This book tells their story—in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.
A live presentation by Lynn Downey, author, archivist, and historian
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEgMcd0fYnkSZpZRDG_SL5gSwTnwp_8b3wtQewGX0RK-EsMg/viewform?mc_cid=4a9a504b7b&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Gary Goodman on The Last Bookseller
2022-06-12 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Online Sunday, June 12, 2 p.m. Pacific Time
Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org
Gary Goodman has been a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota for nearly forty years. In 1982, he wandered into a used-book shop in East St. Paul that was going out of business, little dreaming that he would that day transform from a psychiatric counselor into the store’s new owner. He later co-founded St. Croix Antiquarian Booksellers and the Stillwater Book Center in Stillwater, Minnesota, closing the bookstore in 2017 after 27 years.
In 2021, the University of Minnesota Press published The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade, an account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age. It is both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors. Goodman is also the co-author of The Stillwater Booktown Times (1996) and The Secret History of Golf in Scotland (2006).
Register on the BCW page here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-last-bookseller-by-gary-goodman

Morgan Library Interactive Spotlight Tour: Portraits of J. P. Morgan
2022-06-10 12:30 (America/New_York)
The Morgan Library

From the Morgan’s three Gutenberg Bibles to the intricately carved cylinder seals of Ancient Mesopotamia, join our Morgan docents as they guide you on an up-close virtual exploration and discussion of one of the many works in the institution’s treasured permanent collection.
Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. We ask that you download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Friday, June 10, 2022, 12:30 PM

Tickets: Free; limited availability, advance registration is required.
Registration will be open two weeks in advance of the program
Register here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/treasures-permanent-collection-interactive-spotlight-tour-38?utm_source=The+Morgan+E-Marketing&utm_campaign=ccd7099759-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_15_2019_17_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfa97b537e-ccd7099759-392748700

Timothy Johnson on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2022-06-10 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Gad, Holmes. The collection features more than 60,000 items; it is the largest gathering of materials related to us and this Conan Doyle fellow. But where can it be? We know that is housed in a secure underground site … well out of sight. How will we ever find it?”
“Elementary Watson. You gave the answer yourself when you said that the collection is underground. For who is at home underground? Geomys bursarius, of course.”
By now, you’re practically shouting at poor Watson. “Gopher! And in possession of such a wonderful treasure? A Golden Gopher!” You’ve solved the puzzle and located the collection at the University of Minnesota … from whence we’ll be joined by the collection’s curator Timothy Johnson.
Schooled in part in Chicago at North Park University, where he served as director of archives, Tim Johnson brings the requisite taste in Chicago pizza as well as some familiarity with the Caxton Club. Much in demand as a speaker, Tim will share a generously illustrated presentation that will transport you to Baker Street and beyond.
Why not reserve your spot before darkness covers the moors and the Hound of the Baskervilles begins to howl?
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4769216?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=5/17/2022

Rare Books Signature® Auction at Heritage
2022-06-08 - 2022-06-09
Sponsored by Heritage Auctions (FABS partner)
View all lots and bid at HA.com/6253
Highlights include a first edition of Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations (1776), a Gutenberg Bible leaf, and a signed Marc Chagall Pseaumes de David (Geneva 1979).

Manuscript Monday: Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You
2022-06-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Free Live Webinar
Monday, June 6, 2022
8:00 – 9:00 PM Eastern
One of the many privileges of being a member of a professional organization is the “behind the scenes” tours we are offered by museums, libraries, and universities. Knowing what is expected of us will enhance our experience, add to our knowledge base, and prevent our host or hostess from saying nasty things about us after we leave.
You may think you know what is the proper way to visit all of those “behind the scenes” events but:
Is it ever okay to touch the art?
Leaning on a case or wall, is it okay?
Pencils and markers and sharpies, oh my.
To photograph or not to photograph, that is the question….
In this Manuscript Monday free live-stream webinar, Indiana University’s Archivist and Manuscripts Editor, Bradley Cook will share answers to these etiquette questions and many more insider tips on museum and rare book library “dos and don’t.”
Host: Brian Kathenes
Register Here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8123510088120341003

Bradley D. Cook – Curator of Photographs, Indiana University
