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Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Broadsheet No. 66 June 2002 2002 Conference: Expanding Horizons NZ Electronic Text Centre Launch This Broadsheet carries the programme for the The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre was 2002 Conference of the Society. Shef Rogers launched on 16 May 2002 at Victoria has put together a varied programme for a full University of Wellington. David Seaman, and interesting day in rhododendron-clad Director of the Electronic Text Center at the Dunedin. The Society is very grateful for the University of Virginia, delivered the inaugural support and generosity of the English D.F. McKenzie Lecture at this occasion. The Department, the New Zealand and Pacific in first offerings of the Centre can be examined Global Context Research Theme, and the on its website (http://www.nzetc.org). They Central Library of Otago University, which include an electronic version Book in Print in have allowed the conference to be a fee-free New Zealand and the Print History project, occasion this year. Members’ attention is which featured in our last Broadsheet. drawn to the fact that the Annual General Meeting will be held at the end of the day’s Don McKenzie Conference papers proceedings. Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commem- Books and Empire: SHARP conference oration of Don McKenzie, the book that has resulted from the Remembering Don McKenzie An announcement of the SHARP regional Conference in Wellington in July 2001 will be conference at the University of Sydney was launched at the Annual General Meeting of the given in our last Broadsheet. The dates of this Friends of the Turnbull Library on 10 July conference have been set as Thursday 30 2002. Among contributors to the volume are: January to Saturday 1 February 2003. Roger Chartier, Paul Eggert, Ross Harvey, Professor Roger Chartier, Ecole des Hautes Kathleen Coleridge, Ian Morrison, and Ian Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will be the Willison. Orders can be sent to Victoria keynote speaker. Check the conference website University Press, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, (http://www.anu.edu.au/HRC/activities/confere New Zealand. (Price: $NZ39.95) nces_2003/index.html) for further details, or contact Leena Messina, Programs Officer, Australian press bicentenary symposium Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (phone: +61 2 61254357; A symposium is planned to mark the email: [email protected]). bicentenary of newspaper publishing in Australia. It is to be held at the State Library Subscriptions are now due of New South Wales on 1 March 2003. For further information about the symposium A gentle reminder is sent to those of you who contact Dr. Rod Kirkpatrick, University of have not yet paid your 2002 subscription to Queensland (phone: +61 7 3365 3231; email: the Society. If you cannot remember whether [email protected] ) you have already paid, or wish to be reminded of subscription rates, please contact the Treasurer, Rachel Salmond (phone/fax: +61 2 6931 8669; email: [email protected]) Expanding Horizons: Print Cultures across the South Pacific The BSANZ is pleased to announce the plans for its 2002 annual conference, to be held on September 10th in the new Central Library of Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Thanks to modest support from the English Dept. and the NZ and Pacific in Global Context Research Theme, plus a free room courtesy of the Central Library, there will be no registration fee and a free lunch. Those who feel guilty about such benevolence are welcome to make a donation to the BSANZ instead. Accommodation is available at the University’s Executive Residence, just two blocks from campus, which offers bed and breakfast for NZ$90/night. Their email is [email protected]. But feel free to email the conference convener if you’d like to look at other options ([email protected]). We hope you’ll join us for what has shaped up into an interesting program with a nice focus on the advertised theme. The rhododendrons should be beginning to bloom, and the company will definitely be good. Timetable (subject to alteration and confirmations): 9:00-9:10--Welcome and orientation 9:10-10:30--Ray Choate on Armed Services Editions; Wal Kirsop on Australian commercial circulating libraries in the nineteenth century 10:30-11:00--Morning Tea & Coffee 11:00-12:00--Sydney Shep on Australian Beer Labels; Ian Morrison and co. on Capt. Cook’s tapa cloth books 12:00-1:00--Lunch 1:00-2:00--Ross Harvey on where NZ newspapers got their copy in the late nineteenth century; Paul Hunt on literary contributions to the Otago Witness, 1861-1906 2:00-3:00--Susan Woodburn on the Melanesian Mission Press, Norfolk Island and the London Mission Press, Gilbert Islands; Linda Crowl on the arrival of print in the Pacific islands 3:00-3:30--Afternoon Tea 3:30-4:30--Sarah Jones on Maori moko in relation to print culture; John Ross on difficulties of compiling a descriptive bibliography of the writings of Harold Pinter 4:30-5:00—BSANZ AGM 5:00-5:30--Guided tour of the new library 5:30-6:30--Reception in Charles Brasch Court of new library We’ll conclude the day with informal dinner arrangements made on the day, if people wish to go out as a group at about 7:30..