BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260504T181500 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260428T032536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T032536Z UID:3240-1777914000-1777918500@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:The Sunday Paper: A Media History DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe American Sunday paper of the 1890s transformed the daily edition with inserts and supplements of all shapes and sizes. Each asked readers to do more than read\, but to interact with the materiality of the paper as a form of leisure. The Sunday paper became so large and voluminous it needed to be organized: managed and collected over time\, shared across an entire family. Subscriptions enhanced the economic success of the Sunday paper by helping to produce expert reading subjects. Collecting series of supplements and clipping coupons encouraged readers not to treat Sunday papers as disposable\, but instead parts of cultural and consumer life that could gain value if saved. In illustrated features\, circulation became an ideal in its own right\, achieved through intermediality. Syndicated for national reach\, the Sunday paper was the basis for a mass mediated popular culture. Indeed\, the Sunday Paper became so reliant on the circulation of its popular supplements as to beg the question if it even remained a newspaper at all. \nA virtual presentation by Sandra Gabriele\, Vice President\, Academic and Provost\, Ontario College of Art & Design University\, Toronto\, Canada\, and Paul Moore\, Professor of Sociology\, Toronto Metropolitan University\, Toronto\, Canada and past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada \nTo register\, click here. URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-sunday-paper-a-media-history/ LOCATION:Book Club of California CATEGORIES:Book Club of California END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T193000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260327T141817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T141817Z UID:3184-1777919400-1777923000@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Renaissance DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith Colm Tóibín \n\n\n\n\nAward winning Irish novelist and critic Colm Tóibín will trace the legacy of the Irish Literacy Renaissance through successive generations of Irish writers. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-irish-literary-renaissance-tickets-1981942212510?aff=ebdsoporgprofile URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-renaissance/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T160000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T133910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T133939Z UID:3209-1778079600-1781107200@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Librarians and Artists on Jack Kerouac DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nRandy Gue\, Michael Inman\, Elizabeth Ott\, and Carolyn Vega \n\n\n\n\nA lively panel discussion with members of the NYPL’s Berg and Emory’s Rose Library\, which both hold substantial repositories of Jack Kerouac material. Carolyn Vega and Michael Inman from NYPL and Elizabeth Ott and Randy Gue from Emory all have a tremendous experience in archiving and working with Jack Kerouac material. Discussion will center on special considerations for preserving and utilizing such material and general experiences with it in the course of their work. \nREGISTER here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-symposium-panel-librarians-and-archivists-on-jack-kerouac-tickets-1982034239766?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nRandy Gue is Assistant Director of Collection Development at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript\, Archives\, and Rare Book Library\, Emory University. Gue founded the Atlanta Punk Studies Seminar in 2023\, and in his spare time\, he plays in the city’s only wordcore band: El Matador. He has donated a personal collection of punk-rock memorabilia to Emory’s library\, which created the seedbed of a new collection. His publications include “Modeling the History of the City” in Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. \nMichael Inman is The New York Public Library’s Susan Jaffe Tane Curator of Rare Books\, overseeing the collections of the Rare Book Division and the George Arents Collection of Tobacco and Books in Parts. In this capacity\, he is responsible for departmental acquisitions as well as for promoting the collections through programming\, classes\, and media appearances. He has also curated a number of exhibitions\, including Over Here: WWI and the Fight for the American Mind (2014)\, Walt Whitman: America’s Poet (2019)\, and Becoming Bohemia: Greenwich Village\, 1912–1923 (2024). Beyond NYPL\, Michael serves as a faculty member at Rare Book School\, where he teaches courses on the history of printing and special collections curatorship. He holds an MA in English from the University of North Texas and an MLS from Pratt Institute. \nElizabeth Ott is the director of The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript\, Archives\, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Ott has had previous roles in rare book libraries\, including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her exhibitions include Lyric Impressions: Wordsworth in the Long Nineteenth Century which was presented at Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill.Ott earned a PhD in English literature from the University of Virginia\, a master’s degree in Victorian media and culture from Royal Holloway\, University of London–Egham in the United Kingdom\, and a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Agnes Scott College. \nCarolyn Vega is the Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library\, which holds the archives of Virginia Woolf\, Jack Kerouac\, and many others. She has organized a number of exhibitions\, including on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland\, Emily Dickinson\, Tennessee Williams\, the screenplays of James Ivory\, and authors who have drawn their inspiration from the collections of the New York Public Library. She holds an MSLIS from Pratt Institute. \n\n\n  URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/librarians-and-artists-on-jack-kerouac/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T134209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T134209Z UID:3211-1778090400-1778094000@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Symposium on Jack Kerouac DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nAnn Charters\, Holly George-Warren\, Joyce Johnson\, and Regina Weinreich \n\n\n\n\nKerouac scholars Ann Charters\, Joyce Johnson\, Holly George-Warren\, and Regina Weinreich will discuss their experiences with\, and thoughts on\, Jack Kerouac. \nThe four panel members are all noted Kerouac scholars and biographers. Ann Charters and Joyce Johnson knew Kerouac personally and wrote about him. Holly George-Warren is doing a new\, comprehensive biography to be released soon\, while Regina Weinreich has published several works on him\, notably his book of haikus. The four will discuss their varying experiences with and/or perspectives on Kerouac\, his life\, and his work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-symposium-panel-noted-kerouac-scholars-and-biographers-tickets-1982035859611?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nAnn Charters was Kerouac’s first biographer\, and the only biographer to interview him about his work. She published the seminal work Kerouac: A Biography and Kerouac’s first comprehensive bibliography. She is Professor Emerita of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. \nIn Joyce Johnson’s book Minor Characters\, she wrote about growing up in the 1950’s\, during a challenging period for women\, and her love affair with Jack Kerouac. In 1983 it won a National Book Critics Circle Award and more recently was cited by The New York Times as one of the best memoirs of the 20th century. Her Kerouac biography\, The Voice Is All\, came out in 2012. Her six other books include three novels and a second memoir. Johnson’s work has also appeared in The New York Review\, Vanity Fair\, and The New Yorker. During her long career as an editor\, she was responsible for the posthumous publication of Kerouac’s Vision of Cody. \nHolly George-Warren is the award-winning author of 20 books and has contributed to numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Fine Books & Collections\, and the Times Literary Supplement\, among others. She is currently writing the estate-sanctioned biography\, Jack Kerouac: A Writer’s Life\, to be published by Viking Press. \nRegina Weinreich\, a filmmaker and widely published culture critic\, is the author of Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics (1987)\, one of the earliest full-scale critical studies of Jack Kerouac’s literary work. She edited and compiled Kerouac’s Book of Haikus and wrote the introduction to his You’re a Genius All the Time. On the faculty of the Department of Humanities & Sciences at The School of Visual Arts since 1976\, she teaches courses in Beat literature and aesthetics \n\n\n  URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/symposium-on-jack-kerouac/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260506T200000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260428T031208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T031208Z UID:3235-1778092200-1778097600@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Chelsea Foxwell and Brooklyn Zhao on Fact and Fiction: Picturing the News in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of Anthony J. Mourek DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Evening Program \n \n  \nJapanese color prints and woodblock-printed books are beloved as works of art and literature. Less attention has been paid to those woodblock-printed images of the Meiji era (1868–1912) which purported to depict the news\, especially events of the First Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) Wars. This presentation draws on works from the Anthony J. Mourek Collection now in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center\, University of Chicago to understand how this traditional medium combined fact and fiction to express Japan’s new identity as a modern nation. \nChelsea Foxwell\, Professor of Art History\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the College Director\, Center for East Asian Studies\, University of Chicago. \nBrooklyn Zhao\, Undergraduate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago. \nRegister today\, here. \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. 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/chelsea-foxwell-and-brooklyn-zhao-on-fact-and-fiction-picturing-the-news-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-from-the-collection-of-anthony-j-mourek/ LOCATION:Caxton Club CATEGORIES:Caxton Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260508T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260324T181005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T181030Z UID:3177-1778241600-1778245200@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Adam Smyth on The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nMay Midday Program \n \nFrom the aptly named Wynkyn de Worde to creators of Zines\, Adam Smyth unspools the story of books by illuminating the lives of eighteen fascinating characters. Entertaining\, enlightening\, engaging\, and alliterative\, his book puts a fresh perspective on some familiar names while introducing others you may not be familiar with. \nDid Benjamin Franklin eat paper in order to increase the amount of fiber in his diet? Did William Wildgoose lead a campaign to outlaw quill pens out of deference to his namesake? While those intriguing questions aren’t actually addressed in Smyth’s terrific book\, he does use the broadest range of historical sources to revive and describe the sounds\, the smells\, and the atmosphere of the development of printing to reveal new perspectives on even the most well-trodden ground. \nSmyth is a professor of English literature and the history of the book at Oxford’s Balliol College. He may seem familiar to regular midday program viewers\, because other speakers have quoted him in their talks and because he is much in demand as a lecturer and learned guest in programs available online. \nMake a little history of your own and register for the May Midday today – click here! URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/adam-smyth-on-the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives/ CATEGORIES:Caxton Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T203000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T141243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T141243Z UID:3226-1778527800-1778531400@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: Ebay and Catawiki Discussion DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThis month we try out a new discussion format with the topic “Ebay and Catawiki: The Good\, The Bad and the Ugly.” We’ll discuss the pros and cons of these online auction platforms for collectors of Handpress Era materials. If you use them\, what are your search strategies? Have you ever regretted a purchase\, and/or have you discovered a great bargain? Along the way\, we hope you’ll show your items acquired on Ebay or Catawiki (5-minute limit\, please). \nTo join the mailing list and receive links\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n  URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-ebay-and-catawiki-discussion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260509T144306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260509T144306Z UID:3255-1778529600-1778544000@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: Barrye Brown on the Schomburg Center DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, May 11 @ 8pm EST \nGuest Presenter: Barrye Brown\, Curator of Manuscripts\, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, The New York Public Library \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society \nA live presentation followed by a Q & A with presenter Barrye Brown \nTitle: Arturo Schomburg and the Schomburg Center \nPresentation Description: \nBarrye Brown\, Curator of Manuscripts for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library will talk about Arturo Schomburg\, an Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile\, whose collection of books\, pamphlets\, manuscripts\, and prints established the Schomburg Center in 1926. The book\, Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection\, which Barrye co-authored with Laura Helton and Vanessa Valdés\, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center and dives into the collecting of Arturo Schomburg and the materials that formed the original collection. \nRegister here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B8DTpW5KTIecADMLKGGJSQ URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-barrye-brown-on-the-schomburg-center/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260518T191500 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260428T033022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T033221Z UID:3242-1779127200-1779131700@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Larry McMurtry’s Runaways: The Story of Larry McMurtry’s Collection of Books by Women Travelers DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1960 the aspiring Texas writer Larry McMurtry enrolled in Stanford University with a fellowship in the Stegner creative writing program. Along with his studies\, McMurtry became immersed in the world of antiquarian and used bookshops that flourished during that time in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and it became an infatuation that\, along with writing\, would consume and change his life. \nAmong the many books McMurtry acquired during his San Francisco residency for his personal reading and eventual book business were books by women travelers\, a topic which he found captivating for their true tales of travel to distant lands by strong-willed\, independent women. \nSlowly he assembled a personal collection of books by and about women travelers. After 50 years the collection grew to almost 2000 volumes and contained 320 years of travel narratives\, from 1690 to 2010. This is the story of the collection\, what happened to it\, and the women travelers who made it so captivating – women whom McMurtry occasionally referred to as his “runaways.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by John Crichton\, author\, editor\, antiquarian bookseller\, and proprietor of The Brick Row Book Shop\, San Francisco\, California. \nTo register\, click here. URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/larry-mcmurtrys-runaways-the-story-of-larry-mcmurtrys-collection-of-books-by-women-travelers/ LOCATION:Book Club of California CATEGORIES:Book Club of California END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T134459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T134459Z UID:3213-1779129000-1779132600@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors. \n\n\n\n\nPaul Muldoon and Grolier Club member\, Kevin Young will read a selection of poems by the leading poets of the Irish Literary Renaissance and their successors\, as well as their own work. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-program-poetry-reading-tickets-1982037352075?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nPaul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown\, County Armagh\, and was raised near The Moy\, in Northern Ireland. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. He is the author of a number of poetry collections\, including New Weather (1973)\, Why Brownlee Left (1980)\, Quoof (1983)\, Meeting the British (1987)\, New Selected Poems: 1968-1994 (1996)\, Hay (1998)\, Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, Horse Latitudes (2006)\, and most recently One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015)\, Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016)\, and Frolic and Detour (2019). He has also published collections of criticism\, children’s books\, opera libretti\, song lyrics\, and works for radio and television. \nKevin Young is the author of many books of poetry\, including Night Watch (2025)\, Stones (2021)\, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015; and Book of Hours (2014)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001)\, which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003)\, a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005)\, a film noir. His first book of poetry\, Most Way Home (1995)\, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton\, who described the collection as re-creating “an inner history which is compelling and authentic and American.” Young’s other collections of poetry include Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011)\, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award; Dear Darkness (2008); and For the Confederate Dead (2007)\, winner of the Quill Award in Poetry and the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence. \nYoung was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard\, he became a member of the Dark Room Collective\, a community of African American writers. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/paul-muldoon-and-kevin-young-poetry-reading/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260503T131947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T132011Z UID:3232-1779368400-1779368400@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group: Suzanne Glemot on Bookbinding Models DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nBookbinding models replicate book structures to show us how a book operates. They range from practical to experimental and may reproduce bookbinding techniques from various eras and cultures. Model-making has been a research and instructional method in the Libraries’ Conservation Lab since its inception in the mid-1980s. Today\, the Book Model Collection (BMC) at the University of Iowa is a world-class collection of over 400 items housed in the Libraries’ Conservation Lab. \nDiscover the BMC’s robust array of historical bookbinding models and learn how this unique collection supports the learning and research of conservators\, scholars\, librarians\, artists\, and bookbinders at the University of Iowa and beyond. \nTo join the mailing list and receive links please contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-suzanne-glemot-on-bookbinding-models/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T141748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T141748Z UID:3230-1779391800-1779395400@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Bill Bryson and this congenial group for discussion of all things bibliophilic and nineteenth- century. To receive a link and join the mailing list\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org). URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T134745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T134745Z UID:3215-1779811200-1779814800@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:The Irish Literary Revival: Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nWith R. F. Foster\, Belinda McKeon\, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica \n\n\n\n\nR. F. Foster\, Belinda McKeon\, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica come together for a wide‑ranging virtual conversation on Risings: The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Making of a Nation. As foremost historians\, writers\, critics and scholars in their respective fields\, the panel will explore how literature helped imagine\, energize\, and complicate ideas of Irish nationhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nLively\, thoughtful\, and accessible\, the conversation promises to illuminate Risings not only as a landmark exhibition about a formative period\, but also as a lens through which to think afresh about the enduring power of literature in moments of national transformation. \n\n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now-tickets-1986553498992?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \n  URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-irish-literary-revival-then-and-now/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T203000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T141538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T141538Z UID:3228-1779822000-1779827400@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin your host Reid Byers (author of The Private Library) and the gang for discussion of the joys and challenges of the home library. \nTo join the mailing list and receive a link\, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T193000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T135020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T135020Z UID:3217-1779906600-1779910200@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters\, In Print DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nLecture with Carla Kaplan \n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed biographer Carla Kaplan\, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce\, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (HarperCollins)\, will explore the print and manuscript culture of Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) and her five sisters\, members of a famous British literary family. They wrote autobiographical novels and memoirs\, offering wildly contrasting accounts of one another. Jessica had escaped a cosseted childhood in a Cotswold manor to become a California-based Communist and then muckraker. With her 1960 memoir—fond\, funny\, and often teasing of her equally celebrated (or notorious) relatives—she hoped to come closer to the family she’d left behind. But instead\, the book\, which was lauded and sold well in the U.K. and America\, worsened the rifts. This talk will shed light on what the sisters wrote and published\, with different lenses on their upbringing\, as well as their libraries and Kaplan’s own book collection\, which includes Mitford’s rare mimeographed books and archival documentation of wranglings with publishers. Kaplan will be in conversation with Mitford’s daughter Constancia Romilly. \nREGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true-tickets-1982039480441?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nCarla Kaplan\, author of Troublemaker\, is a professor of English\, African-American and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature. She contributes to publications including The New York Times\, and among her award-winning books are Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance and a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Kaplan founded the Northeastern Humanities Center and has been a resident fellow at institutions including New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Harvard University’s Houghton Library and W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute; University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center; Yale University’s Beinecke Library; Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Ohio State University\, and Smith College. \n\n\n  URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T164426 CREATED:20260427T140004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T155215Z UID:3223-1779994800-1779994800@www.fabsocieties.org SUMMARY:Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office\, 1900-1980 DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by NOBS \nJoin NOBS as we welcome George Barnum\, librarian and former Agency Historian at the Government Publishing Office (GPO). His presentation will focus on his 2017 book\, Picturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office\, 1900-1980\, which he describes as “a very lovingly assembled selection of photos that tell the story of the world’s largest printing and publishing concern in its busiest and largest years.” George will talk about GPO’s history and about the photographs\, “which are in themselves a very fascinating record not only of the agency but of 20th century commercial and industrial photography.” We’ll also hears stories of his time at the GPO and the picture book’s companion\, Keeping America Informed: The United States Government Publishing Office\, A Legacy of Service to the Nation (2011 & 2016). \nNOBS website: https://www.nobsbooks.org/events/picturing-the-big-shop-photos-of-the-us-government-publishing-office-1900-1980-with-george-barnum \nWe’ll meet in person at Loganberry Books on Thursday\, May 28\, 2026\, at 7:00 PM. If you prefer\, you may join us by Zoom. URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/picturing-the-big-shop-photos-of-the-u-s-government-publishing-office-1900-1980/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR