Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, September 14 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: Dr. Harrison Wick, Associate Professor, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Libraries Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A […]
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Sponsored by NOBS This is the year of Toni Morrison and all over Ohio bookclubs and organizations have been creating programs to honor one of Ohio’s greatest writers and the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Toni Morrison, author and editor, was born in Lorain, […]
Sponsored by FABS September 22 FABS Living With Books Group. Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
Sponsored by FABS September 17 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.
Sponsored by FABS September 14 FABS Handpress Era Group: This month Dr. Ilya Dines, specialist in codicology and medieval manuscripts, will present “A Florentine Pocket Classic and Its Readers: A Copy of the Giunta Justinus and Florus of 1510.” To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org.
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Stacie Vos This talk will focus on the two publications of the Hroswitha Club–Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times and Works, and a Comprehensive Bibliography and Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States–in order to argue that the HC was both more […]
Sponsored by FABS August 25 FABS Living With Books Group. Join us and host Reid Byers to discuss the delights and challenges of the private library. Our topics this month: 1. Bibliophilic Zooms, podcasts, Youtubes, & TV documentaries; 2. How we have set boundaries in collections? In libraries? Contact Jennifer […]
Sponsored by FABS August 20 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.
Sponsored by FABS August 10 FABS Handpress Era Group: “Humanist Gifts of Plutarch Texts to Queen Mary I” with historian Valerie Schutte. Mary Tudor has always enjoyed a reputation of having received a humanist education. Of the antique texts associated with Mary, the ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch stands out. Mary […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society Date: Monday, August 3 @ 8pm EST Guest Presenter: George Snook, Educator and Vice President of The Manuscript Society Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society A LIVE webinar with a Q&A with presenter […]