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 […]
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Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles For Zoom link please email Binnie Syril Braunstein: bsbgc@aol.com
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets’ libraries […]