News from the Chair

Series 4, no. 39 Summer 2017

ISSN 1744-3180

NEWS FROM THE CHAIR of - and the editorial arrangements for - Library & Information History, and has liaised with colleagues in the United Welcome to the latest edition our States, reporting on developments in the newsletter. Summer 2017 will be an field there. Most importantly, Alistair has active time for the group. Booking is now helped to develop the field of library and open for the annual LIHG conference on information history by being proactive in 1 July at the University of Dundee. We writing, researching, editing and had an excellent response to our offer of encouraging new research in the subject. a student bursary and have decided to We would like to thank Alistair for all his give two awards this year. Our publicity hard work and contributions to the officer Dan Gooding will be representing committee. I hope you will join us in LIHG at CILIP’s annual conference taking wishing him all the best for the future. place 5-6 July in Manchester. He will be joined by the recipient of the CILIP conference bursary. Full details on both Renae Satterley of these events are available below. Middle Temple Library [email protected] At the time of writing in April 2017, we have not yet been able to name a recipient for the award to attend the conference on information and its CONTENTS communication in wartime in July (the FEATURE ARTICLE: THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT deadline for applications was extended to EDWARD HART P. 2 5 May). The successful applicant will be NEW RESEARCH: JULIETTE RECAMIER'S LIBRARY P. 6 asked to write a report for the winter 2017 issue. Eve Lacey received a bursary NEWS P. 8 to attend the Radical Collections LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS P. 10 conference in March and her impressions CONFERENCES P. 13 can be read on p. 20 below. AWARDS AND BURSARIES P. 16

Also this spring came the news that EXHIBITIONS P. 17 Alistair Black is stepping down from the LIHG committee. A committee member REPORTS P. 19 since 1990, Alistair has provided valuable PRINTED RESOURCES P. 22 assistance with organising our annual conferences, has advised on the direction BACK MATTER P. 24 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017

FEATURE ARTICLE one medieval manuscripts, fifty incunabula, one complete block book and a fragment of another, hundred sixteenth- HE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GIFT CAN ‘T century books, a small but perfectly SCARCELY BE OVER-ESTIMATED’: THE formed collection of English Renaissance LIBRARY OF ROBERT EDWARD literature and thirty books from the HART (1878-1946) heyday of the English Private Press movement. A little known but precious collection of early printed works is being catalogued and Initially housed in the Public Library in researched by Ed Potten. Here, he gives us a Blackburn, a sheaf catalogue of the flavour of the collection and its history. collection was produced under the direction of the Librarian John Walter Robert Edward Hart’s 1948 bequest of five Thomas (1890-1966), a model of 1950s' block books and the Harleian copy of library practice. Thomas was no slouch. Caxton’s History of Jason to Cambridge Although we might today question some of University Library prompted J. C. T. Oates the curatorial decisions he made, he knew to comment ‘Since the gift of a Gutenberg his way around an early-printed book and Bible by the late Arthur William Young in was elected as a fellow of the Royal 1934, no more splendid benefaction has Numismatics Society in recognition of his come to the Library than the six volumes work organising and listing the numismatic 4 recently bequeathed by Robert Edward collections. His handwritten note Hart, M.A.’1 Oates, not a man known for his ‘Collated, perfect, JWT’ can be found in tendency to hyperbole, concluded that many books, and under his direction the these six volumes were ‘of such rarity and ‘Green Books’ were produced, listing not bibliographical interest that the just the rare books and manuscripts, but importance of his gift can scarcely be over- also Hart’s extensive reference library. estimated’.2 As is so often the case with donations of The Cambridge rare material to public bodies, the Hart bequest was books were something of an enigma at undoubtedly Blackburn Public Library. However, unlike remarkable, but it elsewhere, staff at Blackburn tried hard to was not the most make the books work. In 1964 J. A. Miller significant of Hart’s produced a short catalogue, explicitly public gifts. Hidden aimed at ‘students of bibliography’ and The Prioress from the Pynson away in Oates’s designed both to educate and to stimulate 5 Chaucer. Image: Ed Potten, article is a passing research activity. J. W. Darbyshire courtesy of Blackburn Museum. mention that Hart continued to try to promote use of the ‘had been in other ways a benefactor to his collection with his 1967 Library Association town’, something of an understatement.3 Fellowship thesis, which re-catalogued all The same year that Cambridge received pre-1701 books and manuscripts. Despite the block books, the town of Blackburn this regular re-cataloguing, and the was gifted the bulk of Hart’s remaining transfer of the books from the Public library, alongside his numismatic Library to Blackburn Museum in 1974, collections and a selection of works of art. Hart’s library has been until recently very Although relatively compact, Hart’s library much on the periphery of scholarly was spectacularly rich. It included twenty- awareness. Medievalists and incunabulists

2 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 were vaguely aware that there were lifetime. Maurice Ettinghausen, who sold interesting things at Blackburn, but few Hart the block book collection, recalled the braved the frozen north to view them.6 unusual transaction:

Hart’s books would have continued to be He was carrying a small leather bag [from which] he thereupon an outlying oddity were it not for the work produced no less than £25,000 in of Dr Cynthia Johnston at the Institute of one-pound notes […] He explained English Studies. Over the past five years Dr the reason for this method of Johnston has championed and promoted payment: he did not want his bankers to know that he was the collection, bringing a succession of spending so much money on specialists to Blackburn to view and books.9 comment upon them. She has highlighted a neglected phenomenon; to date, the As with Samuel Sandars, Hart’s 1916 activities of late-nineteenth and early- inheritance placed substantial cash twentieth-century English collectors and reserves at his disposal, allowing philanthropists have received him to buy more expensive scant scholarly attention. In THE RICHNESS OF HART'S books. These resided in a set 2013 she curated an LIBRARY WAS LARGELY of mahogany bookcases in exhibition of a selection of UNKNOWN DURING HIS his house in Blackburn for Hart’s books at Senate House LIFETIME his own private delectation; at Library, supported by the School what point this private passion of Advanced Study, the AHRC, Senate morphed into a philanthropic endeavour is House Library and the University of unclear. Winchester, later co-curating an exhibition at London’s 2 Temple Place in 2015.7 Evidence from Hart’s scant archive and within the books themselves suggests a Hart was born into the fourth generation private but talented scholar. His reference of a rope manufacturing dynasty founded library was remarkable – a snapshot of the in the late eighteenth century. Educated at landscape of historical bibliography Rugby, then Cambridge, he was a cultured between the wars – and was demonstrably man who took over a profitable family a working library. His copy of the first business in 1916. He is characteristic of a volume of the incunabulist’s bible, the new breed of book collector, men like the Catalogue of books printed in the XVth barristers Arthur Young and Samuel century now in the British Museum, for Sandars, the astronomer John Couch example, contains sheets of notes about Adams and colliery manager Sir Henry collations, the spread of printing and an Webb. These men were middle class, intriguing analysis of the printed output of university educated, wealthy and the fifteenth century, arranged by format. philanthropic, and their libraries enriched There are lengthy bibliographical our public and university collections annotations to flyleaves, often immeasurably.8 accompanied by a coded record of the price paid. One gets the impression that Hart is a superb case study. Unlike many Hart himself was appalled at the prices he of his peers, he was unusually private in was prepared to pay for his books. A list his collecting, and beyond a select group compiled towards the end of his life of antiquarian booksellers the richness of allocates prices to books, prices which are his library was largely unknown during his often a third lower than those recorded in

3 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 code within the books themselves. significance of the project, York have agreed to house sections of the collection In light of the growing interest in Hart and temporarily within their secure and his books, and with Dr Johnston’s environmentally-controlled stacks, enthusiastic encouragement, and to provide access for the curatorial team at COPAC HAVE AGREED cataloguing, an innovative Blackburn successfully TO UPLOAD AND MAKE and encouraging applied last year for AVAILABLE THE BLACKBURN collaboration between a Resilience Funding from DATA, ENSURING MAXIMUM University Library and a Arts Council England to VISIBILITY local council. support the first stage of a project to make Hart’s collections better What has the project revealed thus far? known. A portion of the Resilience funding That despite the regular re-cataloguing of has been allocated to researching and Hart’s books and manuscripts, very little cataloguing the Hart books. There are was actually known about the individual considerable challenges. MODES, the copies within the collection. With a few current museum management system, has notable exceptions, Hart was not buying at no facility to manage MARC data, and the the top end of the market – his Museum has neither the funds nor the acquisitions were generally more staff to create and maintain its own OPAC moderately priced. Happily, one of the specifically for books. Furthermore, the very features which downgraded such piecemeal nature of the funding for the books in the eyes of the trade in the 1930s cataloguing necessitated a flexible and 1940s – extensive messy annotations approach, and the consequent decision to – is one which now places them at the use a freelancer based in York posed some forefront of research interest. practical problems. Amongst a number Through a mixture of Heath-Robinson of fine examples of software engineering and the goodwill of fifteenth-century the special collections community these ownership recently hurdles have been overcome. The books unearthed is Hart’s will be catalogued in MARC using a well- copy of Peter established piece of freeware, the Schöffer’s 1485 resulting data is then streamed into two Gart der homes. COPAC have agreed to upload and Gesundheit, heavily make available the Blackburn data, annotated by a ensuring maximum visibility. community of nuns Simultaneously, the project will develop in Passau. The some basic MARC functionality for MODES, herbal is covered which will allow for the uploading of MARC with marginal Poison ivy (Hedera) from Peter data.10 citations, allowing Schöffer's Gart der Gesundheit the nuns easily to (1485). Image: Ed Potten, courtesy of Blackburn Museum. The practical problem of cataloguing the locate the correct Blackburn books has been resolved herb when one of them developed dropsy, through the generosity of York University leprosy or whatever other ghastly Library and its Head of Special Collections, medieval condition they had fallen prey to. Sarah Griffin. In recognition of the Unsurprisingly in a female community,

4 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 many of these cross-references can be instead an 1663 engraving of the English found next to herbs or roots which either astrologer Sir George Wharton (1617-1681) supress or treat the effects of – in seventeenth-century Leek the mistake menstruation. Some of the individual presumably looked less glaring. woodcuts are ticked, indicating plants which could be found locally, and rather ED POTTEN IS A FREELANCE CATALOGUER AND RARE unexpectedly, a drawing of a phallus has BOOKS SPECIALIST BASED IN YORK. been added in the margins next to the For details about a conference in November, see below. description of a plant used to treat The Facebook page for the Robert Edward Hart Library is: impotence. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1476762942333818/

Hart’s copy of the Chaucer printed by Pynson between June 1491 and 13 1Cambridge University Reporter, 3 February 1948, November 1492, has an equally interesting p. 674. Hart also gave a collection of eighteenth- early provenance. This copy has appeared century French books of engravings to the only twice on the market in its 500-year Fitzwilliam Museum and a first edition of the history, once in an Faerie Queene to his college, Pembroke. 2 The Cambridge Review, May 3, 1947, p. 418. anonymous sale in 3 Ibid., p. 418. 1868, there acquired 4 Proceedings of the Royal Numismatic Society, Sixth by Samuel Christie- Series, Vol. 14, No. 44 (1954), p. xx. Miller (1811-1889) 5 Illustrated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books for the Britwell from the Hart Collection ([Blackburn: Blackburn Library, then again Public Library, 1964]). 6 Several manuscripts were included in J. in the Britwell sale of Alexander, Medieval and Early Renaissance 1924, where Hart Treasures in the North West (Manchester: snapped it up. Whitworth Art Gallery, 1976); listed in N.R. Ker, Thomas Rudyard Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries II (Oxford: (d.c.1709), whose Clarendon Press, 1977), pp. 91-113. In recent initials are stamped years the incunabula have been added to ISTC. 7 See C. Johnston, and S. J. Biggs, S. (eds.) Sir George Wharton posing as onto the binding, Geoffrey Chaucer Hart's copy Blackburn’s ‘Worth Citizen’: The Philanthropic Legacy of Pynson's Canterbury Tales. was the last Rudyard of R.E. Hart (London: Institute of English Studies, Image: Ed Potten, courtesy of owner of Rudyard 2013). Blackburn Museum. Hall near Leek. 8 Some work has been done in this field, but our Hidden away in the margins of the book understanding of the wider motivations and amongst the annotations is the ownership mechanisms underpinning collecting and benevolence in this period is sketchy. See, for mark of his antecedent Ralph Rodehyerd example: S. Defrance, ‘“He was Always Fond of (fl. 1524), who acquired the book second- Books”: John Couch Adams’ Genesis as an hand from its first owner, one Roger Academic Collector’. In: Libraries, Books, and Rathbon. At some point in the late Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 (London: Taylor and seventeenth century one of the Rudyard Francis, 2017) – forthcoming. Samuel Sandars as family further embellished the book, Collector of Illuminated Manuscripts was the topic of Professor Nigel Morgan’s 2013/14 adding their own intriguing little shrine to Sandars Lecture. Chaucer on a front flyleaf. It is made up of 9 Cited in Johnston and Biggs, p. 1. a series of typographic borders and letters 10 This facility will be offered more widely to the cut from printed books, at the centre of MODES community and (it is hoped) developed which is a portrait which purports to be of further to allow for easier exchange and Chaucer, but which blatantly is not. It is manipulation of data.

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NEW RESEARCH After Recamier’s death an inventory of her library collection was drawn up by two or three people, presumably in readiness for JULIETTE RECAMIER'S LIBRARY auction. It comprises around a thousand volumes in all, although sadly one of the three Bill Hines explores a newly discovered inventory lists is not completely legible. Nevertheless, it of a close friend of Mme Germaine de Stael. is possible to identify all but about 15 of the individual authors and titles. This year is the bicentenary of the death of two of the great literary figures of the early nineteenth century: Germaine de Stael and Jane Austen. Chawton House Library will be marking the event with an exhibition between 12 June and 24 September - Fickle Fortunes: Jane Austen and Germaine de Stael - along with a supporting conference in July.1 Amidst the background work for these events, a library inventory for Juliette Recamier has come to light in the archives at Aberystwyth University. She was one of De Stael’s closest friends, a salonist and society leader, and the inventory Inventory of Juliette Recamier's library. Credit: Bill provides a fascinating insight into the reading Hines; courtesy of Aberystwyth University. habits of one of the leading lights of the Napoleonic era. One of the lists includes notes of books in particular bookcases and rooms, and here by Juliette Recamier was born in Lyon in 1784, the chance we have a fascinating link back to a daughter of a King’s counsellor. She married 1826-painting now in the Louvre by the artist the banker Jacques-Rose Recamier, although Francois-Louis Dejuinne, showing Juliette the marriage was never consummated. reclining in front of one of the bookcases at Moving in the wealthiest circles of French L’Abbaye aux Bois, echoing the more famous society, Recamier established a salon that uncompleted reclining image by Jacques-Louis became the meeting place for some of the David.2 main literary and political figures of the period. However, she incurred the displeasure of The library inventory is accompanied by a Napoleon when she refused letter, written in August 1853 by to act as a Lady in Waiting RECAMIER'S one J. Asclepiade. Here he to the Empress Josephine SALON WAS THE MEETING PLACE notes various books that and was subsequently OF THE MAIN LITERARY AND POLITICAL have been lost from the list sent into exile from Paris. FIGURES OF THE DAY and those that he has been During the later Napoleonic era able to obtain. It is likely that the she spent time in Naples and also at the inventory and accompanying letter came into Coppet home of Mme de Stael. In later years the possession of George Powell, a local she lost much of her fortune and settled in a Aberystwyth landowner and minor literary former Paris convent at L’Abbaye aux Bois. figure, from some Paris dealer in the 1860s. Here she continued to entertain many society Powell was certainly acquiring other material leaders, including Chateaubriand and Lucien at auctions in Paris at that time. His collection Bonaparte. Towards the end of her life, she of books and papers then came to developed cataracts, losing most of her sight, Aberystwyth University at the end of the and was cared for by a niece. She died in May 1870s. 1849. Sadly we only have the inventory of Recamier’s

6 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 books and do not possess the originals. PROVENANCE OF RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. Although it would be possible to recreate the full bibliographic detail for much of the Note from the editor: The article is accompanied by a collection from the brief author title transcript of the inventory. For spatial reasons, this inventory will only be available as an appendix to the information provided, which includes the online version of this newsletter. number of volumes and book size, this is not always possible for the most popular works that went through several editions.

However, we can deduce that most of the books date from the period 1800 until around 1835, presumably when her sight began to decline, although some titles belong to the later eighteenth century. Clearly this was an expensive collection with most of the major contemporary French authors in evidence, along with some important English language titles. We find for example full sets of Diderot’s Encyclopedia, Rousseau, and Buffon’s works alongside Johnson’s English Poets and Gibbon’s Roman Empire. There is also some contemporary fiction and poetry, although perhaps not so much as one might expect. However, we cannot know whether the library contents had been sifted by her niece before the inventory was prepared and it is also likely that some volumes were lost over the years. A page from Recamier's library inventory. Credit: Bill Hines; courtesy of Aberystwyth Opinions differ as to whether or not Juliette University Recamier was a true intellectual, although on the evidence of this list she had significant interest in both politics and religion.3 There is 1 Details of both the exhibition and the conference relatively little reference to her reading in the can be found on the Chawton House website at early memoir prepared by Madame https://chawtonhouse.org 2 Lenormant, or in the edited letters between de http://bit.ly/2pMY7Iw and http://bit.ly/2pB1pTr. 3 Stael and Recamier.4 However, Lenormant For example: ‘she was not a woman of profound notes that Juliette had ‘a fine natural taste for mind. Her companionship with thinkers like Ballanche and Chateaubriand was not spiritual, or literature’ and there are references to books 5 metaphysical, or philosophic, or speculative: such like Corinne in the correspondence. It seems men did not want such companionship’. In: G. And most unlikely that she would have sustained P. Wharton, The queens of society (London: friendships with figures like De Stael, Constant Routledge, 1870), p. 318. and Chateaubriand without considerable 4 Mme Lenormant, Souvenirs et correspondances native intelligence alongside her striking tires des papiers de Madame Recamier, trans. I. beauty. Luyster (Boston: Knight and Miller, 1867); Lettres de Madame de Stael a Madame Recamier, ed. E. Beau The inventory of Recamier’s library will be on de Lomenie (Paris, Domat, 1952). 5 display at the Chawton House exhibition this Lenormant, Souvenirs et correspondances, p. 22. summer and will subsequently be available for researchers in Aberystwyth University Library.

BILL HINES IS INFORMATION STUDIES DEPARTMENTAL FELLOW AT ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY WITH AN INTEREST IN THE

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NEWS Two unique Caxton fragments were discovered at Reading University in Summer 2016. The two leaves are from the Sarum On Thursday 30 March, Dr Christopher Ordinal, thought to have been printed in the Clarkson passed away at the age of 79. Well- 1470s (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education- known as a conservator of medieval 39846929) manuscripts and early printed books, Clarkson was also a much-respected historian of *** bookbinding. His innovative foam book cradles are now of course used in special collections Boston Public Library has repatriated three libraries across the world. A full obituary can items from its special collections to Italy. The be read on the ICON website: artifacts were stolen in the 1950s along with https://www.iiconservation.org/node/6977 other items that have as yet not resurfaced. The press statement can be read here: *** http://bit.ly/2rgZ3pe.

HarperCollins has launched a dedicated *** website to mark its 200th anniversary with a timeline, stories of significant moments in its The United Nations War Crimes Commission history and an online exhibition of some of its Archive at the Wiener Library is now open to archives (http://200.hc.com/) on-site researchers. From 21 April 2017, ***

The personal archive of Peter O’Toole (1932- 2013) has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. It promises to give an insight into the theatre and film communities of which he was part. The collection consists of photographs, diaries, notebooks, audio recordings, theatre and film programmes, props and costumes. The archive will be made available to scholars once the materials have been processed and catalogued. See the Ransom Center's press statement for more information. http://bit.ly/2rjrQdx researchers can access a digital copy of the archive in the library’s reading room. The *** archive contains extensive documentation relating to the handling of war crimes by the Innerpeffray Library has received several Allied powers between 1943 and 1949, hundred volumes of Scottish first editions including lists of alleged war criminals, files of dating back to the 16th century from the charges brought against them, trial collection of Janet St Germain. There are first transcripts, meeting minutes, and other editions of David Hume, Robert Burns, Walter materials. Scott (Ivanhoe, Redgauntlet), RL Stevenson (Treasure Island, Kidnapped) and John Buchan The archive finding aid can be accessed online, (Thirty-nine Steps) to mention only a few. The but individual files are only available at the Library governors hope to share the collection Wiener Library. Due to the expected high through special exhibitions and events. demand, researchers need to make an appointment prior to visiting. https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/News

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Good news for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Christ Church and Magdalen Colleges (Oxford) The Bodleian has announced a major Tolkien have launched a website to reunite two exhibition, to take place between June and manuscripts commissioned by Cardinal October 2018. Wolsey. Both lectionaries have been digitised to allow them to be studied side-by-side. See Entitled Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, the http://www.wolseymanuscripts.ac.uk/ exhibition will feature an unprecedented breadth of materials, such as manuscripts, *** artwork, maps, letters and artefacts from the UK and the USA, including the Bodleian’s own An exciting new project has been launched to Tolkien Archive, the Tolkien Collection at explore the borrowings of the users of the Marquette University (USA), and private Leighton Library in Dunblane. Using the library collections. Apart from materials relating to archives, local and family history, individual the creation of Middle Earth, the exhibition will users and the books they borrowed will be put also highlight Tolkien’s life and work as an into context. The research is shared in a series artist, poet, medievalist and linguist. More of blog posts, accessible via details to follow in a future newsletter. https://leightonborrowers.com/

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This year's recipients of LIHG conference The Library and Information History Group is bursaries are as follows: Michelle Craig, a PHD also active on Facebook and Twitter. Our student at Glasgow University working on publicity officer Dan Gooding regularly shares provenances in the Hunterian Library, and news from around the world, conference Melanie Manwaring-McKay, a MLitt student at announcements and calls for papers, job Inverness College, UHI working on the Charles adverts and much more. See below p. 27 for Rennie Mackintosh Collection in Inverness details on how to find us on social media. Library, are heading to Dundee on 1 July to attend the LIHG conference in Dundee. Dr Sophie Defrance from Cambridge University OVER TO YOU... Library will attend the CILIP conference on 5-6 July in Manchester. Do you have news you would like to Eve Lacey attended the Radical Collections share? Do you have a favourite blog conference in March and her report can be you feel others should hear about? found on p. 20. Perhaps you have or know of a Facebook group or page dedicated to library and information history? *** If so, we would love to hear from you. You may have noticed the CILIP logo has Please send an email with your news changed on the front of the newsletter. New and any links to websites, using no brand guidelines were issued earlier this year, complete with a new logo, colour palettes, and more than 150 words, to prescribed fonts. We're therefore now using [email protected]. Open Sans in the newsletter and have updated the display hierarchy of the LIHG and CILIP Thank you! logos.

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LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS BLOOMSBURY'S LOST LIBRARIES: A WALK SPONSORED BY FLEMING, IAN FLEMING: THE AUTHOR AS THROUGH SOME LIHG COLLECTOR FORGOTTEN BOOK COLLECTIONS Wednesday 31 May 2017 18:30-20:30 Sunday 4 June 2017 11:30-13:00 (sold out) and 14:00-15:30 Jon Gilbert talks about James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s book collecting activities and Twenty-first century London contains his work as one of the founders of the some of the finest book collections in the Book Collector 65 years ago. world, but what about the libraries that haven’t survived? If you know where to A drinks reception sponsored by The Book look, London’s streets and alleyways are Collector starts at 18:30, followed by the crammed with the ghosts of libraries past. lecture at 19:30. Led by the infamous Walking Librarian, Location: Senate Room, first floor, Senate Alice Ford-Smith of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, House, London this walk will carry you back through Bloomsbury’s history, to long- Free, but booking required. See forgotten libraries, readers, http://bit.ly/2p3eXoN librarians and collectors. Alice *** will reveal some of the links between London’s past and HISTORY LAB SEMINARS present book collections- and the tales of enterprise, Thursday 1 June 2017 transformation, obsession and 17:30-19:30 destruction that are often behind them.

Imogen Peck (University of Bristol) Location: Russell Square, exact location to be A chronology of some memorable accidents: confirmed. The representation of the recent past in printed almanacs, 1648-1660 Free, but booking required. See http://bit.ly/2ov2CLD Part of the History Lab Seminars for *** postgraduates and early career researchers. THE LIFE AND CURIOSITY OF HANS Location: IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, SLOANE Senate House, London Tuesday 6 June 2017 *** 19:00-20:30

At this event, historian James Delbourgo, author of the new biography of Sloane, explores this remarkable figure, and curators from the British Museum and the British Library shed light on the treasures

10 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 they steward. The talk will explore the world of the chapbook, small inexpensive books that James Delbourgo is the were sold on the streets to adult and child author of the first readers and whose contents ranged from modern biography of fairy tales and legends to gruesomely Hans Sloane, Collecting recounted real-life crimes and disasters. the World: The Life and After the talk there will be an opportunity Curiosity of Hans Sloane to see parts of the historic Maughan (Allen Lane, 2017). He is Library building (the former Public Record a British historian Office, now King’s College London’s largest educated at East Anglia, library) and to view a selection of Cambridge and chapbooks and other ephemera from Columbia Universities, King’s College London’s own library special who specialises in the Hans Sloane by Stephen collections. Enlightenment. In 2008, Slaughter, 1736, National he became Associate Portrait Gallery, London. Location: Maughan Library, King's College Professor in the History Credit: Stephen C. Dickson Wikimedia Commons, CC BY- London. of Science and the SA 4.0. Atlantic World, Rutgers Free, but booking required. See University. http://bit.ly/2ovfstf

He will be joined by Kim Sloan, the British *** Museum’s Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880 and the Francis MEDICAL COLLECTORS OF RARE BOOKS Finlay, Curator of the Enlightenment Friday 9 June 2017 Gallery and Sandra Tuppen, Lead Curator 15:00-17:30 Mod Archive & MSS 1601-1850 at the British Library. A two-hour session in the Wellcome Library’s viewing room, discussing the Location: Knowledge Centre, British Library, Euston Road, London books owned by Sir Henry Wellcome, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (1853-1936); Full Price: £10.00 Member: £7.00 Under 18: £7.00 Joseph F. Payne (1840-1910), physician; Other concessions available. Further information: and much earlier book owners, such as http://bit.ly/2qajJSY. Hieronymus Munzer (1437/47-1508), *** humanist and physician; and Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), humanist and BACKSTREET PRINTING PRESSES: physician. Books from the late 15th to 18th CHAPBOOKS AND STREET LITERATURE IN centuries will be on display, as will one of THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES the library’s early 20th century accession registers, evidencing Henry Wellcome’s Thursday 8 June 2017 collecting habits. 17:30-19:00 Location: Wellcome Library, Euston Road, Speakers: Ruth Richardson (independent London. historian) and Adam Ray, Special Collections Manager, King’s College Free but booking required. See London. http://bit.ly/2qdQGdc

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*** 1869 under control of the state until the privatisation of the telecommunications WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT JANE AUSTEN? business as British Telecom.

Tuesday 4 July 2017 Location: Science Museum 19:00-20:30 Free to attend, but registration is required. See This summer marks the bicentenary of the http://bit.ly/2ribFwS for further information. death of Jane Austen at the age of 41. What explains her enduring appeal?

Panel discussion chaired by John Mullan, with Paula Byrne, Helena Kelly, Kamila SPECIAL EVENT Shamsie.

Location: Knowledge Centre, The British Tuesday 21 November 2017 Library, Euston Road, London 10:00-16:00

Full price: £10.00 Under 18: £7.00 Other CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY concessions available. Further information: OF OUR JOURNAL LIBRARY & http://bit.ly/2p6AtZO INFORMATION HISTORY *** Going strong since its first appearance in BOOK COLLECTING SEMINAR 1967, Library & Information History turns 50 this year. To mark this momentous Tuesday 11 July 2017 occasion, we have invited former editors 18:00-20:00 of the journal to reflect during this one- day seminar on the changing landscape of Professor Mirjam Foot (University College library and information history, London) particularly during the period of their Two 19thC collectors of fine bindings editorship.

Location: Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Why not join us on 21 November for a day Floor, Senate House, London. of fascinating insights and celebration? Free to attend, but booking required. http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/6803 Talks are followed by a reception. *** Location: CILIP, 7 THE BRITISH POST OFFICE IN THE Ridgmount Street, TELECOMMUNICATIONS ERA London WC1E 7AE

Thursday 31 August 2017 Free, but registration is required. Full details will be given in the next Workshop which will explore the history of newsletter and on the website. the British Post Office from its monopolisation of the telegraph service in

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CONFERENCES http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whatson/upcoming-events/2017/jun/index THE ELZEVIERS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES Annual Conference A one-day conference marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Louis THE INFORMATION LANDSCAPE IN Elzevier. SCOTLAND 1600-1900 Friday 2 June 2017 Saturday 1 July 2017 10:00-18:00 9:30-17:30

Confirmed speakers: Keynote speaker is Prof. Peter Reid of Robert • Professor David McKitterick: "What is in a Gordon University Aberdeen. The day name? The afterlife of Elzevier" promises to be full of interesting talks by • Professor James Mosley: "The Elzevier established and early career historians. Letter" • Professor Andrew Pettegree and Arthur The organisers have also arranged a series der Weduwen: "Profit or Reputation? of tours in Dundee on Friday 30 June. For Publishing Strategies in the Seventeenth- details of these, a conference programme Century Dutch Republic" and booking, please go to http://bit.ly/2qIigDO Location: Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Location: Dalhousie Building, University of Floor, Senate House, London Dundee Further information: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8214

*** Annual Conference THE BOOK INDEX Wednesday 5 July - Thursday 6 July 2017 Thursday 22 June - Friday 23 June 2017 The CILIP Conference is one of the biggest This two-day symposium takes a timely events in the calendar for UK library and opportunity to consider how the index - information professionals, bringing together the foremost finding aid of the physical people from across the sector for two days of book - shaped reading and scholarly collaboration, debate, inspiration and method over the last 800 years. networking.

Keynote speakers: Location: University Place, University of Professor Ann Blair (Harvard); Professor Manchester Emily Steiner (UPenn) Full information: www.cilipconference.org.uk Location: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

Further information and registration:

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LITERARY ARCHIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE Wednesday 6 September - Friday 8 September 2017 Friday 7 July – Saturday 8 July 2017 No further details have been published. A two-day conference organised by the Visit the CILIP RBSC website for updates on School of English. “Literary Archives in the the programme and booking: Digital Age” aims to gather scholars http://bit.ly/2r8Ctmh together in order to consider these *** changes; the conference aims both to showcase contemporary archival research GOOD, FAST, CHEAP: PRINTED WORDS and to reflect on the opportunities and AND IMAGES IN AMERICA BEFORE 1900 challenges presented by 21st-century archival study. Friday 6 October- Saturday 7 October 2017 Keynote speaker: Dr Wim van Mierlo (Loughborough University) Jointly organised by the American Printing History Association (APHA) and the Center Location: Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) Further information: https://dublinliteraryarchives.com/conference- In an era in which the process of design 2017/ had not been separated from production, *** the purpose of the conference is to explore the inter-relation between INFORMATION AND ITS COMMUNICATION composition, design, and printing IN WARTIME processes.

Tuesday 25 July - Wednesday 26 July The call for papers closed 15 March and a 2017 programme should become available on Organised by the Institute of English the website in due course. Studies. Location: American Antiquarian Society, A draft programme is now available on the Worcester, Massachusetts Institute's website (see link below) Further information: https://printinghistory.org/call-proposals- Location: Senate House, London 2017/ Further information: *** www.ies.sas.ac.uk/Information-in-Wartime2017 *** SOMETHING FOR MY NATIVE TOWN Recent Discoveries and New Directions COLLECTIONS AT RISK in the R.E. Hart Collections of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Conference Thursday 9 November - Friday 10 November 2017

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The Institute of English programme may become available over Studies together with the the summer. Blackburn Museum and TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF ITALIAN Art Gallery, and the MANUSCRIPTS IN OXFORD. University Centre at EXPLORING THE CANONICI COLLECTION Blackburn College are pleased to announce an Friday 24 November - Saturday 25 international conference November 2017 on the R.E. Hart Collections at the Organised jointly by Bodleian Libraries and Lincoln College. Blackburn Museum and Gart der Gesundheit, Art Gallery. Peter Schöffer (1485). Image: Ed Potten, Amongst the Bodleian’s rich holdings of courtesy of Blackburn In 2015, the Institute of Museum Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, English Studies and the the number from Italy is second only to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery those from the British Isles. This is due chiefly to the collection of one man, the established an academic partnership Venetian Jesuit Matteo Luigi Canonici whereby the Institute has led research on (1727-1805/6), who devoted himself to the manuscript and rare book collections collecting after the suppression of the donated by R.E. Hart to the museum in order in parts of Italy in 1773. 1946. After his death the collection passed This conference marks the progress of that eventually to Giovanni Perisinotti, who research, and celebrates the opening of sold over 2,000 manuscripts to the the R.E. Hart Reading Room at the Bodleian in 1817. museum. Funded by an Arts Council England Resilience Grant, research on the Canonici’s manuscripts range from Latin manuscript and book collections has and Greek classical literature to biblical, yielded extraordinary discoveries. The liturgical and patristic texts, from medieval opening of the R.E. Hart Reading Room will vernacular literature to philosophical texts, to medical treatises and to Humanistic enable both academics and the public to literature. access Hart's collections in a secure and comfortable environment. To celebrate the bicentenary of the arrival of the Canonici collection from Venice, a The final programme remains to be two-day international conference, confirmed. On Thurday 9 November, a accompanied by a small display of reception is held to mark the opening of manuscripts, is planned in Oxford on 24- the R.E. Hart Reading Room at the 25 November 2017. Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery and Ed Potten will discuss the recent discoveries More information about the location and he has made in the Hart Collection in the programme may become available in time for the next newsletter . opening lecture at 16:00.

More information about the location and

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AWARDS AND Dr Dorothy Clayton, Awards Manager, BURSARIES DEADLINE 30 Library and History Information Group at JUNE 2017 [email protected] JAMES OLLÉ AWARD 2017

There is still time to apply for the 2017 James Ollé Award offered by the LIHG. Did you know?

In 2017, the LIHG is offering a James Ollé Each year, the LIHG offers student Award of up to £1,000 to applicants bursaries to attend conferences pursuing a postgraduate degree in the covering the field of library and field of library or information history. information history. These grants help Recipients of the Ollé award must be a towards the cost of conference fees and member of LIHG (or join LIHG after expenses. receiving the award). Annual membership of the Group is available for £39. Keep an eye on the website (http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special- interest-groups/library-information- Please note: CILIP members can choose to history-group) or follow the group on join two groups without paying an extra Twitter (@CILIP_LIHG) and Facebook. fee. Membership of CILIP is currently free Details can also be found in the Awards to registered students. and bursaries section of the newsletter.

Examples of what an award might be used to fund include, but are not limited to:

• travel and accommodation costs in order to undertake research • reproduction costs (photocopying, digitization, photography)

The award is not intended to cover conference attendance costs.

James Ollé Award recipients are required to write a report (maximum 1,000 words) of the work undertaken for inclusion in our newsletter.

Further particulars, expressions of interest Why is there a bust of Dickens in and applications, which should include a the Birmingham and Midland brief CV, a statement of plans, a draft Institute? Turn to p. 19 to find out. budget and the names and addresses of two referees, should be sent to the Group's Awards Manager by 30 June 2017:

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EXHIBITIONS RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: HOPE, TRAGEDY, MYTHS BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE AT 200 Until 29 August 2017 Until 2 July 2017 From the fall of Russia’s last Tsar to the rise of Small exhibition of items celebrating 200 years the first communist state, this definitive of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. exhibition takes a fresh look at the Russian Revolution 100 years on. Free With rarely seen items from both sides of the conflict – from a first edition of the Communist Location: George IV bridge building, National Manifesto to anti-Bolshevik propaganda – this Library of Scotland, Edinburgh is a unique chance to understand the lesser- known personal stories behind the events that Further information: http://bit.ly/2ptixsA changed the world.

*** Members and friends of the British Library: free. Non-members: £13.50 (full price); other THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP: JAPANESE prices on website. SURIMONO PRINTS Location: PACCAR Gallery, The British Library, Until 27 August 2017 Euston Road, London

The most lavish of Japanese prints, the quality Further information and booking: and refinement of surimono appealed greatly http://bit.ly/2nr9Uyg to Sir Alfred Chester Beatty and he amassed a *** collection considered one of the finest in the world. This year is the 60th anniversary of FICKLE FORTUNES: JANE AUSTEN AND formal diplomatic relations between Japan and ERMAINE DE TAEL Ireland. As artistic and poetic sentiments G S shared to mark the passing of time and From 12 June until 24 September 2017 friendship’s renewal, surimono offer the perfect medium to celebrate this important July 1817 saw two deaths: Jane Austen, an occasion. English novelist with a solid but relatively modest success, and Germaine de Staël, a Free long-standing superstar of pan-European intellectual, political and literary life. Over the Location: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, two centuries since, the relative reputations of Dublin these two writers have re-aligned in ways that would have astonished their contemporaries, Further information: http://www.cbl.ie/ admirers and critics alike.

This exhibition, will present items in the library’s own collection alongside rare items sourced from other international research libraries, reflecting on Austen’s immense popularity, but also exploring the transient nature of celebrity, and introducing one of the period’s most famous, and most oft forgotten, writers.

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Access to this exhibition is included in the inspired by the surprising international price of visitor admission. adventures of her family and relations. Through a spectacular selection of Austen Location: Chawton House Library, Chawton, materials displayed together for the first time, Hampshire the Bodleian Libraries delve into the myriad influences on this great writer's work. Further information: http://bit.ly/2pUCFoG Location: Weston Library, Oxford *** Details: http://bit.ly/2qv07pM ISCARDED ISTORY HE ENIZAH OF D H : T G *** MEDIEVAL CAIRO NDURING EYE HE NTARCTIC LEGACY Until 28 October 2017 E : T A OF SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON AND FRANK For a thousand years the Jewish community of HURLEY Old Cairo put their worn-out writings into a synagogue storage room, a genizah. Explore From 16 June until 12 November 2017 one of the greatest collections of Cambridge University Library and a remarkable survival of One of the greatest ever photographic records the medieval past. Opening in Cambridge in of human survival, 'Enduring eye' honours the April 2017 Discarded History: The Genizah of achievements of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Medieval Cairo will provide a window on the men of the 'Endurance' expedition of 1914- life of a community a thousand years ago – a 1917. Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, Shackleton's official expedition photographer, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. Frank Hurley, documented the expedition under the most extreme circumstances. His Free photographs provide a lasting record of the men of the 'Endurance' and their story. Location: Milstein Exhibition Centre, Showcasing Hurley's images alongside items Cambridge University Library from the Library's polar collections, the exhibition tells the fascinating and enduring Further information: http://bit.ly/2pBSoJg story of the expedition.

*** 'Enduring eye' has been created by the Royal Geographical Society, with additional items on WHICH JANE AUSTEN? show from National Library of Scotland collections. From 23 June until 29 October 2017 Location: George IV Bridge Building, National To mark 200 years since the death of Jane Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Austen, a major new exhibition at Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries will challenge Website: http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions the current public perception of one of England’s greatest literary heroes.

Which Jane Austen? presents Austen as an ambitious and risk-taking businesswoman and a wartime writer who was informed and

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REPORTS Cricket on the Hearth as a fundraiser for the project. He would later also serve as the sixteenth President of the BMI. Among the Two reports this time. First, Dan Gooding regular users of the Dickens Room and other tells us more about the Birmingham & spaces are the Dickens Fellowship, the Midland Institute, visited by LIHG members Philatelic Society and the Society of on 9 March, while Eve Lacey reflects on an Bookbinders, which not only use them for inspiring conference she was able to attend meetings but also for storing excess books. on 3 March thanks to an LIHG bursary. Next stop was the Mullins Room, designated for quiet reading or study, with a small IRMINGHAM IDLAND NSTITUTE B & M I selection of fiction and newspapers provided for this purpose. It also houses the Priestley Collection, named after Joseph Priestley who was a subscriber to the original Birmingham Library. This collection is organised under the Priestley cataloguing system, a specialist classification scheme used only in the BMI and the Leeds Library.

On the mantelpiece is a bust of Joe Hunt, Administrator of the BMI from 1979 to 1997, and founding member of the Independent The Birmingham & Midland Institute was Libraries’ Association. Hunt refused to take a founded in 1854 by Arthur Ryland, a local salary until the BMI itself was making money, lawyer and politician, with the aim of and without his influence it is unlikely that the educating the working classes in science, BMI would be here today. literature and the arts. With the Birmingham Philosophical Institution closed in 1852 and These days, the Mullins Room is also a popular the Mechanics’ Institute on the wane, Ryland venue for ghost story readings and M.R. James reckoned a new institute was needed to adaptations, put on by Birmingham City replace them. In summer 1852, Ryland invited University students and local dramatic some wealthy friends and put forward his societies. proposal. All present agreed about the benefit of such an institute and promised substantial donations towards its establishment. A site Continuing our tour, we descended to the was purchased beside the Town Hall Lyttleton Theatre, the largest of the BMI’s two on Paradise Street. theatres and named after the Lyttleton family of Hagley Hall, HARLES ICKENS SERVED C D Worcestershire. George When the original building AS THE SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF Lyttleton, 4th Baron became on Paradise Street was THE BMI. the first President of the BMI in knocked down to make way 1854, and a hundred years later his for a ring road in the 1960s, the BMI descendant Charles Lyttleton, 10th Viscount moved into its current site on Margaret Street, Cobham, was made President to mark the home of the original Birmingham Library since institute’s anniversary. The second, smaller, 1899. theatre is the John Lee Theatre, named after the button-maker who established the original Our tour began in the Dickens Room, the largest of several rooms made available for Birmingham Library in 1779. meetings, conferences and other events. It is named after Charles Dickens, who came to Going up into the theatre’s projection booth, Birmingham in 1853 to give readings from The we also met with Dean Kelland, the BMI’s artist

19 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 in residence who discussed his current project: RADICAL COLLECTIONS a study of the flawed male character in comedy. Kelland spends two days a week in Richard Espley opened the Radical Collections the theatre, developing his character and conference at Senate House with a favourite filming scenes with his two assistants. quotation from Moby Dick on sub-sub- librarians: Our final stop was the BMI Library itself, with a collection of around 120,000 books. Alongside Thou belongest to that hopeless, 6000 biographies and a large stock of fiction sallow tribe which no wine of this (particularly of the detective variety), the world will ever warm; and for whom collection ranges from Birmingham history to even Pale Sherry would be too rosy- topography to nineteenth-century travel strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel journals. Older and more valuable books, poor-devilish, too; and grow some of which go back to the seventeenth convivial upon tears; and say to century, are kept in the basement and are them bluntly, with full eyes and referable only by appointment. empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness—Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the To streamline all this diversity - a recent more pains ye take to please the evaluation of the collection brought to light world, by so much the more shall ye five copies of Barnaby Rudge - the library staff forever go thankless! are developing an acquisitions policy, while vintage book sales are regularly held to raise He followed with some provocations for the funds for the library, making space for new day ahead – when do a librarian’s ethics stock in the process. A box of old photos of the conflict with the professional demand for BMI was also recently unearthed in the course neutrality? Who decides what is neutral, and is of this downsizing. It is being preserved and it something we should aspire to? How can archived by a local student. libraries and their collections best serve politically radical ends? The BMI is a registered charity and membership society, and while membership The first panel concentrated on radical used to run into the thousands, today there materials, from Wendy Russell’s presentation are just under 400 members, most of whom of Ken Loach’s Questions of Leadership at the are retired people looking to do more with BFI, to Lucas Richert’s experience of the R.D. their free time (and money). Efforts are being Laing collection of radical psychiatry at the made to bring in a more diverse group of University of Glasgow. Lisa Redlinski then users; for example, a discounted annual introduced the conference to the membership rate of £16.60 is available for Underground Press Collection at the University students and the unemployed. of Brighton, which includes the topical zine Librarians for Social Change.1 Our sincere thanks to Dr. Connie Wan, Deputy Administrator and Programme Development The second panel moved on to the Manager at the BMI, for her in-depth and organisation of these materials, and the insightful tour of the institute, and to the BMI impact of information professionals’ decisions. for hosting the LIHG Committee meeting. Julio Cazzasa recommended a flexible approach to cataloguing across subjects and DAN GOODING IS PUBLICITY OFFICER FOR THE LIHG AND languages, with examples from the Latin WORKS AS A LIBRARY ASSISTANT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF America Political Pamphlets Collection and a BRISTOL. collected history of the Labour Party in the UK. Gregory Toth challenged traditional library *** classification schemes and described campaigns to make the major schemes less

20 LIHGNewsletter Series 4 no. 39 Summer 2017 discriminative towards protected and cautioned against relying on volunteers to characteristics and people-related facets. act as expert consultants on local history. Alicia Sellie told the inspiring story of working Katherine Quinn discussed the library as a at the Wisconsin Historical Society’s space for undirected enquiry and the Newspapers and Periodicals Collection. During importance of the institution in an increasingly her time in Wisconsin, she worked with modular and marketised UK Higher Education historian James P. Danky on a bibliography of environment. She suggested librarians should African-American periodicals and an extensive resist being forced into transactional acquisitions policy that stretched to high relationships and begin Guerrilla collection school students' zines. She introduced us to development to encourage radical education. the idea of radical weeding, to make reparations for histories of white supremacist Finally, Kirsty Fife and Hannah Louise collecting habits in the US and recommended Henthorn talked from their own experience the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, which and campaign to decentre qualification and goes against traditional protection of rare or make careers in archives more accessible. ephemeral materials and instead advocates They recommended a rejection of mandatory preservation through use.2 (unfunded) Masters courses and more support for distance learning, among other measures The third panel returned to collections, with to overturn the white dominance of the Mairead Mooney's comparison of the Cork archives world, in which men earn more and collections in pre-independence and Free State people with disabilities are underrepresented. Ireland. Amy Todman detailed the process of archiving the work of feminist organisation Throughout the day, contributions from the Engender at the National Library of Scotland audience enriched panel discussions. We from the 1990s onwards, charting their move discovered that the Senate House archivist from campaign group to charitable status. She collects posters and placards from student stressed the importance of developing policies protests outside the building as soon as to match new campaign formations and security has left; that the TUC has recently making connections with radical groups from acquired a collection of poetry and prose; a their infancy. librarian has annotated the cards for all communist authors in the catalogue at the Siobhan Britton analysed issues of National Library of Egypt with 'Workers of the preservation and accessibility in collecting World Unite'; the National Library of Scotland zines and recording ‘DIY culture’ whilst collects pornography as legal deposit; and that remaining loyal to its anti-corporate, the terror law prevented the British Library ephemeral, and lo-fi aesthetic.3 The challenges from acquiring an archive of Taliban poetry. of untraceable vendors and a lack of receipts Senate House hosted an impressive, inspiring seem worth overcoming for the historical and and convivial gathering of Melville’s hopeless cultural value to be garnered from zines tribe of Sub-Subs. documenting the Hillsborough football disaster, or charting the redevelopment of EVE LACEY WORKS AS A SENIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT AT East London pre-2012. NEWNHAM COLLEGE LIBRARY AND IS A STUDENT ON THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION MA AT UCL. SHE IS INTERESTED IN Panel four asked how to diversify library staff SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND CLASSIFICATION. and audiences. Tamsin Bookey explained how Tower Hamlets archives put Widening 1 http://bit.ly/2pC7Cyu Participation into practice with a commitment 2 http://interferencearchive.org/ 3 to the notion of 'nothing about us without us'. A self-published magazine or fanzine, usually with She suggested that the sector should value a small circulation and distribution and created by one person or a small group. personal experience above university degrees if they are to best serve their local community

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PRINTED RESOURCES The Library: Journal of the Bibliographical Society, 7th series, 18.1 (Spring 2017) JOURNALS Articles Library and Information History 33.2 (Spring Copyright payments in eighteenth-century 2017) Britain, 1701–1800, David Fielding & Shef Rogers. Pages: 3-44 Articles ‘Seeing “Sights” That Don't Exist’: Karl Marx in Manuscript catalogues and book history, Ralph the British Museum Round Reading Room, Hanna. Pages: 45-61 Colin Higgins. Pages: 81-96 Reconsidering Pierre Haultin's early career: ‘All Are Instructive If Read in a Right Spirit’: Roots, training, beginnings (1546-1550), Rémi Reading, Religion, and Instruction in a Jimenes. Pages: 62-80 Victorian Reading Diary, Lauren J. Weiss. Pages: 97-122 Variant copies in French and Belgian editions of medieval French texts: A case study in Family Networks and Social Connections in the nineteenth-century fine printing, William Cole. Survival of a Seventeenth-Century Library Pages: 81-104 Collection, Brenda Collins. Pages: 123-142 Correspondence Book reviews Peter A. Blayney. Page: 105 Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment, Book reviews Brian Hillyard. Pages: 143-144 The print before photography: An introduction to European printmaking, 1550-1820, David Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre- McKitterick. Pages 106-108 industrial Europe, David McKitterick. Pages: 145-146 Nineteenth-century dust-jackets, Edmund M. B. King. Pages 108-109 The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves, Karen Attar. Pages: 147-148 ***

Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to Information & Culture, 52.2 (May/June 2017) the Semantic Web, Vanda Broughton. Pages: 149-150 NORAD’s Combat Operations Center: A Distinctively Cold War Environment, Layne The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Karafantis. Pages: 139 - 162 Elizabeth Knowles (Editor). Pages: 151-152 Interpreting Diaries: History of Reading and Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library the Diary of the Nineteenth-Century Croatian of Trinity College Dublin, Peter Hoare. Pages: Female Writer Dragojla Jarnević, Jelena Lakuš 153-154 and Anita Bajić. Pages: 163 - 185

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Elizabeth Cleveland Morriss (1877-1960), Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Leader of the Literacy and Adult Elementary Cambridge, Pamela Robinson. Pages: 155-156 Education Movement in North Carolina, Plummer Alston Jones, Jr. Pages: 186 - 206 Bibliography, Katherine Birkwood & Eric Howard. Pages: 157-166 How Subjects Matter: The Kinsey Institute’s Sexual Nomenclature: A Thesaurus (1976),

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Donna J. Drucker. Pages: 207 - 228 Mark Purcell, The country house library, Yale University Press, forthcoming October 2017. The Public Library Movement, the Digital ISBN: 9780300227406 Library Movement, and the Large-Scale Digitization Initiative: Assumptions, Intentions, Beginning with new evidence that cites the and the Role of the Public, Elisabeth Jones. presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this Pages: 229 - 263 generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. The Internet in Argentina and Brazil: The Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners Origins of Networking Experiences, Carolina and librarians, the book features fascinating Aguerre. Pages: 264 - 294 information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author Books also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were Descriptions are based on those provided in profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous publishers' and booksellers' catalogues. care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits.

Sara de Freitas & Guy Crivello, Freedom and The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Information: A History (Routledge Studies in Treasures, foreword by Carla Hayden Chronicle Library and Information Science) Routledge, Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781452145402 forthcoming December 2017. ISBN: The Library of Congress brings booklovers an 9780415729765 enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. The powerful political call for ‘open access’ to Featuring more than 200 full-color images of information has become a formative aspect of our original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and societies and culture. As an expression of cultural photographs from the library's magnificent freedom, digital technology creates a tension archives, this collection is a visual celebration of the between access to information on the one hand rarely seen treasures in one of the world's most and control and power strategies that seek to famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system restrict access and centralize datasets on the other. that has kept it organized for hundreds of years. This book considers the evolution of information systems as centering upon control, open access, and knowledge, tracing the development of these Rebecca Romney & J. P. Romney, Printer's notions from the Nineteenth Century. Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History, Harper, 2017. ISBN: 9780062412317 Melanie A. Kimball & Katherine M. Wisser Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in (eds.), Libraries: Traditions and Innovations: 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII, K. highest achievements of human innovation. But G. Saur Verlag, 2017. ISBN: 9783110448337 the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error Many consider libraries to be immutable chronicles some of the strangest and most institutions, deeply entrenched in the past, full of humorous episodes in the history of Western dusty tomes and musty staff. In truth, libraries are printing, and makes clear that we've succeeded and historically have been sites of innovation and despite ourselves. Rare-book expert Rebecca disruption. This collection of essays offers Romney and author J. P. Romney take us from examples of the enduring and evolving aspects of monasteries and museums to auction houses and libraries and librarianship. Whether belonging to a libraries to introduce curious episodes in the Caliph in 10th-century Spain, built for 19th-century history of print that have had a profound impact on mechanics, or intended for the segregated our world. Southern United States, libraries serve as both a reflection and a contestation of their context.

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APPENDIX Etudes sur Moliere par Cailhava. 1 vol in 8. (1802) NOTE OF THE BOOKS WHICH Oeuvres complete de Helvetius. 5 vols in 8. COMPRISE THE LIBRARY OF MME (1781) JULIETTE RECAMIER Oeuvres de Nivernois. 8 vols in 8. (1796 ed?). Oeuvres de Racine. 7 vols in 8. (1768 ed?). The inventory comprises three component Oeuvres de Corneille. 12 vols in 8. (1824 ed?). lists in separate hands. Two lists are fairly Voyage de jeune anarcharsis. (Jean Jacques legible with some significant overlap between Barthelemy). 7 vols in 8 avec attach. (1828 them. The third list is rather less legible and ed?). some entries remain obscure, while a few Les douze Caesars (trans la Harpe) . 2 vols in 8. others may contain errors and abbreviations Repertoire du theatre francois. 23 vols in 8. from the original transcription. (Petitot. 1803 ed?) Oeuvres de Regnard. 6 vols in 8. (1790 or 1822 Items in brackets represent elucidation by the eds?). compiler, including suggested dates for Oeuvres de Hamilton. 3 vols in 8. (1812) editions where readily apparent. Author and Projete? D’economie politique. 1 vol in 8 format are given as listed. Supplementary Cours de literature de La Harpe (Jean notes by Asclepiade with his 1853 letter refer Francois). 16 vols in 8. (1820/1) to some dozen volumes from multi-volume Oeuvres de l’Abbe Prevost. 37 vols in 8. (1783 works that have been lost. or 1823? Lacking 2 vols?). Bill Hines, April 2017 Oeuvres de Buffon. 69 vols in 12. La Navigation. 1 vol in 8 (Esmenard. 1806. First list Poem – identification uncertain) French Books Melange de literature par La Harpe. 6 vols in 8 Traite elementaire de physique de Hauy. 2 vols Elegies de Tibulle. trad de Mirabeau. 3 vols in in 12. (1803) 8. (1798) Poesies de Leonard. 1 vol in 8. (1771?) Oeuvres de Rabelais. 3 vols in 8 Oeuvres de Bernard. 1 vol in 4 (Pierre Joseph Mes Passe-temps. Despreaux. 2 vols in 8. Bernard.) (1806) Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle (Charles Sethore? 2 vols in 8 Sonnini) 24 vols in 8 Olivier. Jacques Cazotte. 2 vols in 8. (1763) Dictionnaire Historique. Chaudon et Fables de Lafontaine. 6 vols in 8. (1826?) Delandine. 13 vols in 8. (1804) Liaisons dangereuses . Laclos. 2 vols in 8. Maison rustique. (Louis Liger). 3 vols in 4. Encyclopedie. Diderot. 39 vols in 8 (1798 ed?). Contes et nouvelles en vers de La Fontaine. Romance de la Place? 8 vols in 8 (Editions Fermiers Generaux). 2 vols in 8. Etudes de la Nature. (Bernardin Saint Pierre). 5 (1762) vols in 8. (1804) Voyage de M. Candide fils. (Bellin de la Oeuvres de Condillac. 23 vols in 8. (1798) Liborliere). 1 vol in 8. (1803) Oeuvres de Machiavel. 9 vols in 8. (1799) Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la Oeuvres de Plutarque. 22 vols in 8. (1783 ed?). mort. Xavier Bichat. 1 vol in 8. Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau. 38 vols in 8. with Collection des moralistes ancien. 22 vols in 8. Correspondence de J.J. Rousseau. 2 vols in 8 – Edward Young. Beautes poetiques. 1 vol in 8 40 vols in all Lettres d’Euler a une princesse d’Allemagne. 3 Oeuvres de Voltaire. 92 vols in 12. (1789 ed?). vols in 12. (1775?) Oeuvres de Moliere. 6 vols in 8. (1773 ed?). Pensees de Bourdaloue 1 vol in 12.

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Principes generaux de belles lettres de Athenian Letters. 3 vols in 8. (1800?) Domairon. 3 vols in 12. Bell’s British Theatre. 25 vols in 12. Elemens de l’Histoire de France. Millot. 3 vols The man of feeling. 1 vol in 8 in 12. Lavater. Physiognomy. 3 vols in 8 Manon Lescaut. (Prevost). 2 vols in 12. Lettres de Madame de Sevigne. 12 vols in 16. Second list (1823?) Oddments and Supplementary items from the Gene saurie?? 1 vol in 8. second list. There is much duplication with first L’Incendie de Copenhague. 1 vol in 8. list and these items are excluded here. Dictonnaire de Boyer. 2 vols in 8. Dictionnaire de Catineau. 1 vol in 12. Raccolta di vedute d’ella citta di Roma. (c1820). Sermons de Massillon. 2 vols in 12. (Giovanni Brun.) 1 vol folio Maximes Chretiennes. 1 vol in 12. Elements de la langue Anglais. Siret. 1 vol in 8. Lettres personnelle. 1 vol in 12. (identification Mercure de France. 2 vols fol. uncertain) Nuits d’Young. 1st vol only in 8. L’esprit de s. Vincenne. 1 vol in 12. (title Oeuvres de Diderot. 2nd vol. only in 8. unclear?) Tableau de Paris. 2nd vol only in 8. Rome et de ses environs. 1 vol in 12. Abrege des vies des peres et des martyrs. 2nd Monuments de Rome. 1 vol in 12. vol only in 12. Atlas de le Sage. 1 vol folio. Lettres de Clement (XIV?). 1st vol only in 12 Oeuvres de Boileau. 5 vols in 8. (1747?) Comte de Valmont. 3rd vol only in 12 L’esprit de histoire. Antoine Ferrand. 4 vols in Bibliotheque de campagne. Broche. 6th vol 8. (1826?) only in 12 Oeuvres de Mably. 15 vols in 8. (1794) Geraldine, traduit de l’anglais (broche) . 3 vols Le compere Mathieu. Dulaurens. 3 vols in 8. in 12. (Sarah Burney. 1811 ed trans by Mme Poesie de Clotilde. 1 vol in 8. St.Hilaire) Discours sur l’education des femmes. (de English Books Genlis). 1 vol in 8. Cooke’s Select Novels. 63 vols in 16. Principe de belles lettres. 3 vols in 8 (Batteux? Volney’s Ruins.1 vol in 12. Uncertain identification) Johnson’s English Poets. 75 vols in 12. (1790) Swift’s works. 22 vols in 8. (1768 ed?) Third list The Spectator. 8 vols in 8 Some 12-15 items excluded as illegible. Some Milton’s Paradise Lost.1 vol in 8 others marked as doubtful. This listing does not Blair’s Rhetoric. 3 vols in 8. include details of format and is markedly more Hume’s History of England. 8 vols in 8. difficult to untangle. Smollett’s History of England. 5 vols in 8. (1785?) D’Abrantes. Memoires. 18 vols. (Laure Junot. Gibbon’s Roman Empire. 12 vols in 8. 1831-5). Charles Brockden Brown. Arthur Mervyn. 3 Lettres de Madame de Maintenon. 4 vols vols in 12. Astolphe de Custine. Memoires et Voyages. 2 Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly. 3 vols vols in 12 Astolphe de Custine. Le monde comme il est. 2 The world as it goes. 1 vol in 12. vols Elegant extracts. 3 vols in 8 Memoires of Madame du Barri? 2 vols Pope’s works. 9 vols in 8. (1797) Memoires du Comte Alexandre de Tilly. 3 vols. Pope’s Homer. 5 vols in 4. (1828)

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Memoires de Madame Roland. 2 vols. (1821) litterature anglaise. 3 vols. (1834) M. Degerando. Histoire comparee des Jean Gerbais? (Illegible) systemes de philosophie. 4 vols. (1822/3) A.-H. de Keratry. Examen philosophique …Du M. Degerando. Du perfectionnement moral. 2 sublime. 1 vol. (1823) vols. (1824) Roger? (illegible) Memoirs de Mademoiselle Bertin. 1 vol. (1824) Artaud. Machiavel. 2 vols Marceline Desbordes Valmore. L’atelier d’un Lamennais. L’imitation de Jesus Christ. 1 vol peintre. 2 vols. (1833) Benjamin Constant. Discours. 2 vols. (1828) Marceline Desbordes Valmore. Poesies. 2 vols. De Lolme. Constitution de l’Angleterre. 2 vols (1830) in 1 Etienne Jean Delecluse. Mademoiselle Justine Nodier. (illegible) de Liron. 1 vol. (1832) Mackintosh. Melanges Philosophiques. 1 vol. Sophie Gay. Les malheurs (title uncertain?? (1829) Antoinette Dupin. Cynodie. 2 vols. (1833) Theodore Jouffroy. Melanges philosophiques. Germaine de Stael. De l’Allemagne. 3 vols 1 vol Ferdinand Denis. Luiz de Souza. 2 vols. (1835) Cousin. Fragmens philosophiques. 1 vol Mme Ducrest and Mme De Genlis. Paris en Necker. Oeuvres. 2 vols province. 3 vols. Louis Francois de Bausset. Histoire de Saint Beuve. Volupte. 2 vols. (1834) Fenelon. 3 vols. (1808-9). Lectures memoires de Chateaubriand. 1 vol. Gustave Drouineau. Le manuscript vert. 2 vols. (1834) (1832) Alexandre Duval. Misanthrope du Marais. 1 Gustave Drouinaeu. Resignee. 2 vols. (1833) vol. (1832) Gustave Drouineau. Les ombrages. 1 vol. Alcide de Beauchesne. Souvenirs poetiques. 1 (1833) vol. Gustave Drouineau. L’Ironie. (1834). F. A. Parseval. Philippe Auguste. 1 vol. (1826) (Petrarch, Dante, Michelangelo?? 3 works?) Lamartine? (illegible) detail of these items unclear D’Abrantes. Amirante de Castille. 2 vols Mois philosophiques. 2 vols De Vigny. Poemes. 1 vol Benjamin Constant. Polytheism Romain. 2 vols Henri de Latouche. Fragoletta. 2 vols (1833) Henri de Latouche. Clement XIV . 1 vol Tasso. Gerusalemme liberata. 2 vols Henri de Latouche. Grangeneuve. 2 vols Villemain. Republique de Ciceron. 2 vols. Henri de Latouche. Souvenirs et fantaisies. 1 (1822) vol. Sainte Beuve. Les consolations.1 vol. (1830) Prosper Merimee. Double Meprise. 1 vol. (1833) Books listed as missing in 1853 inventory Prosper Merimee. Chronique du regne de Corneille – 1st volume Charles IX. 1 vol Buffon – vols 42, 43, 44 Victor Hugo. Notre Dame de Paris. 2 vols Laclos – vol 2 Abbe Labouderie. Christianisme de Montaigne. Moraliste Anciens – vol 1 1 vol. (1819) Madame Sevigne – vols 2, 3, 4 Cooke Select Novels – vols 16, 26, 35 Lettres Philosophiques. 1 vol Pope works - vol 2 Charles A. Walckenaer. Vies de plusieurs Bell’s English Theatre – vol 1. Further vols in personnages celebres. 2 vols. (1830) this and other sets set were noted as with Chateaubriand? Etudes historiques. 2 vols Mme de Catellan, though these notes have Lamennais. Melanges. 1 vol been crossed out, so possibly they had been Louis Mezieres. Histoire critique de la reclaimed. She was a close friend of Recamier.

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