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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 […]

The White Whale: Moby Dick Illustrated

Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The American Trust for the British Library The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated Monday, September 30, 2024, 6-7:15 PM (Pacific) | In-Person and Virtual Presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program At the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen […]

Ann Lindsey on Poisonous Pigments in Books

Sponsored by The Caxton Club October Evening Program It is well known that copper arsenic compounds were used as a green pigment in textiles and home furnishings during the 19th century. In 2019, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, embarked on a study of green cloth covered bindings from the 19th century and continues […]

Robinson Jeffers’ Tamar and Other Poems: A Centennial Appreciation

Sponsored by The Book Club of California When the California poet Robinson Jeffers published Tamar & Other Poems, his first major collection, in 1924, it struck reviewers as both timeless and powerfully of its moment. James Rory declared that the poems "exhibit the maturity of a remarkable talent," and the poet Babette Deutsch confessed to […]

Manuscript Mondays: Six Steps of Digital Preservation

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Six Steps of Digital Preservation that Every Collector Should Know Manuscript Mondays – Free, Live Webinar Monday, October 7, 2024 8:00 PM Eastern Presenter: Lauren Goodley, MSIS, CA. Digital Archivist, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University Many people do digital preservation activities, whether we’ve received training to do so or […]

Virtual Symposium: Billy Budd at 100

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a livestreamed Symposium on Billy Budd in conjunction with Grolierite William Palmer Johnston’s exhibition, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100, running in the Club’s second-floor Gallery through November 9, 2024. The Club will host this symposium on Herman Melville and his novella Billy Budd in the ground-floor Exhibition Hall. Note: this is a live webcast.  Register here: […]