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LIBRARY AND INFORMATION HISTORY NEWSLETTER

The official newsletter of the Library and Information History Group, a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

CONTENTS

NEWS FROM THE CHAIR ...... 3 LIHG DIARY ...... 3 FEATURES ...... 4 The Story of LEO the first business computer ...... 4 Heritage Libraries in Transition...... 7 WHAT’S ON ...... 10 Courses, lectures and events ...... 10 A walk through London’s library history – LIHG Event ...... 10 Navigating London: a time-traveller’s guide to the city – LIHG Event ...... 10 Caird Archive and Library at the National Maritime Museum – LIHG Event ...... 10 Exhibitions ...... 15 Aldus Manutius events ...... 16 NEWS ...... 18 AWARDS AND OPPORTUNITIES ...... 20 Prizes Awarded...... 20 Opportunities available ...... 20 CALLS FOR PAPERS ...... 22 NEW RESOURCES ...... 27 In Print ...... 27 Online ...... 30 HELP WANTED ...... 32

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Series 4, no. 32 January 2015 ISSN 1744-3180

NEWS FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2015! This is going to be a busy year for the group with a whole host of events taking place.

LIHG will be participating in CILIP’s conference this year, cleverly titled CILIP Conference 2015 (they have dropped ‘Umbrella’ for all future conference titles). The conference’s theme is ‘Connect, Debate, Innovate’ and will have four streams. Booking is now open for the conference via their website: http://cilipconference2015.org.uk/. LIHG will be sending Monica Blake as our committee representa- tive and we hope to have a table at the Conference for the group. We will also be offering an LIHG member a free place at the conference, with travel expenses reimbursed as well. We will announce details on how to apply for this bursary on our website by the end of February.

Later in the year we will be hosting a joint conference with the Association of Independent Libraries. Full details for this exciting venture are being organized and we hope to announce a date and call for papers by March. One of the themes we have discussed so far is that of libraries and librarians as gen- erators of scientific and professional knowledge. In 2015 we will be able to offer conference speakers a free place to attend the conference. Full details, including the CFP will appear on our website and will be circulated by email.

Other events planned for 2015 include three walking tours, one of which will be held on National Li- braries Day. Full details are available on p.10. We will also be organizing another talk by Ken Worpole, and our usual range of visits.

As the newsletter went to press we were still deciding on the winner of the Library History Essay Award for 2014. We had nine excellent entries for the 2014 award, and thus it is taking slightly longer than usual to read and assess all of the applicants. The winner will be announced on our website. We also awarded two Ollé prizes in 2014. Full details are announced on p.20. In 2015 we will be increasing our prize offers by awarding a second place Essay Award of £100 and by offering two Ollé prizes with a maximum value of £500 each. We are also looking into the possibility of offering a travel bursary to the student whose LIHG conference fee Maney has sponsored. We will make a final decision about this at the January committee meeting.

The Committee would like to welcome Emma Laws as our new website editor. She will be working alongside Lydia Gibbs to move all of our content over to the main CILIP website, in keeping with their new regulations for special interest groups. We will keep the lihg.org website open to use as a blog and calendar however. We would also like to welcome Lucy Gwynn to the committee. She will be taking over the Secretary position as Erika Delbecque has changed roles to become the Events Coordina- tor.

Renae Satterley Middle Temple Library [email protected]

LIHG DIARY

19th January - 1st February 2015 ::: Online committee meeting Saturday 7 February : A walk through London's library history (free walk for National Libraries Day) Friday 17 April: Caird Archive and Library visit Thursday 26 March: Navigating London walk Summer TBC ::: LIHG Conference Friday 18 September: Walking tour: Lost libraries 2

FEATURES

The Story of LEO the first business computer

In November 1951 the world’s first computer application carrying out regular time-critical ‘commercial’, as opposed to technical tasks, was rolled out on a digital electronic computer. The task in question was the valuation of the bakery production of the food and catering giant J. Lyons & Company. It was carried out at Cadby Hall in West London, the headquarters of the company, and the digital computer was LEO ( Lyons Electronic Office), the computer built by Lyons’ itself as the first computer designed for processing business data.

How did it come about that a company known for its teashops, corner houses, its catering for events like the Royal Garden Parties and the annual tennis championships at Wimbledon, its bakery products sold in corner-shops all over England, its Lyons Tea and Lyons Maid Ice Cream, its confectionary and even its own blended brand of Whiskey – Old Jolyon, had become a leading player in what is now often referred to as the ‘information age’?

The remarkable story of how Lyons came to invent computer based business data processing has been documented in a number of books and papers and commemorated on television and radio. David Caminer who had been responsible for organising the application of the LEO computer to meet business requirements, in his later years, retired from ICL and Fujitsu, gathered a small band of LEO pioneers and enthused and bullied them into turning the LEO story into the narrative of computing history. The first step was to write an account of the LEO history leavened by the personal reminiscences of many of those who had played a part in the story, Gratuitous i mage of cake courtesy of savit keawtavee at including some who had worked for LEO customers. FreeDigitalPhotos.net

The book User Driven Innovation: The world’s first business computer was published by McGraw Hill in 1996, followed two years later by an American edition, LEO, the Incredible Story of the World’s First Busi- ness Computer and in 2000 translated into Chinese for publication in China. But another enthusiast, Peter Bird, an ex Lyons employee had had the same idea and two years earlier had published his own excellent account of the LEO story, LEO, The World’s First Business Computer. Between them the two books provide an authoritative history of the LEO story, which helped to bring LEO back into the story of how computer use evolved and the special part played by Lyons and its LEO.

To celebrate the 50 th anniversary of that first LEO application, the group working with David Caminer organised a major Conference held at the London Guildhall, sponsored by a number of organisations including the City of London, Fujitsu, the Wall Street Journal Europe, the IEE (now IET), KPMG and the London School of Economics 1. The proceedings were published as a special edition by the Journal of Strategic In- formation Systems. 2

More books on LEO followed, notably the works of the science writer Georgina Ferry, a clear indication that the LEO story was gaining traction. 3

The media, in the form of BBC Radio and ITV television, played their part. Remarkably ITV was planning a documentary ‘Disappearing Britain’ including the story of tea drinking in Britain with Wendy Craig as presenter. 4 In researching their story they came across J Lyons of teashop and tea marketing fame, and discovered that Lyons was using its own computer for both teashops replenishment and tea production and blending planning. Intrigued they followed up the story and devoted a part of one of the programmes to LEO and an interview with the pro- grammer who had been responsible for the tea blending application. Image courtesy of zole4 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Mike Hally from the BBC produced a four part radio documentary recording the birth of computers with one episode devoted to LEO. He published an extended version as a very readable early history of computers. 5 A reasonably comprehensive bibliography of published material related to LEO can be found on the LEO Computers Society Website. 6

Perhaps the most important UK institution for remembering the UK computer heritage is the Computer Conservation Society, established jointly by the British Computer Society and the Science Museum. Apart from the outstanding work inspired by the late Tony Sale of reconstructing pioneering computers such as Colossus, the Ferranti Pegasus, ICT 1301 and now the Cambridge University EDSAC, they set up a project headed by Simon Lavington to provide detailed documentation of all the UK computer ranges, including, of course, the LEO range. Though much material on the LEO range has been supplied a great deal of material, much to my regret, is still missing.

Collections of LEO artefacts and documentation are held in various museums and archives. The main documentary archive, some 230 items, is held in the Ryland Library at Manchester University, and the Warwick University Library Modern Records Centre houses the collection of Simmons papers. 7 8 The late John Sim- mons was the senior Lyons executive who more than anybody inspired the LEO initiative and whose papers include many critical documents relating to the evolution of the idea of a business computer. More artefacts are held at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, and the London Science Museum features the LEO story in its new Information Age Gallery. Recently the Computer History Museum in Sili- con Valley acquired some LEO pieces and will be showing them as part of its new facilities. Other pieces, including a nearly complete LEO, are held in various other museums.

But there is much more of interest to future historians. And here the LEO Computers Society is playing a key role in attempting to preserve the LEO record. The Society originally set up as a friendship club for ex LEO employees with regular reunions has expanded its interests to include the story of LEO. 9

Many LEO employees kept records and documents of various kinds ranging from engineering drawings, application specification and coding sheets to minutes of critical meetings. A few archives of this sort have been edited such as those of John Pinkerton, LEO’s chief engineer. But most of this material is unclassified and hidden in filing cabinets or stored in boxes. LEO Computers Society members have made a start on collecting some of this material and classifying it. But it is a mammoth task as more and more material becomes available, usually with the death of its original owner, and the LEO Computers Society needs help with this task – both financial and with skilled manpower. One particular need is to sort out the most important documents and make them available for researchers by digitising them. The extensive collection at the Ryland library is all in its original form comprising manuscripts and typewritten papers as well as some computer print outs.

A second project is to record oral histories of LEO personnel. The project is receiving funding from the As- sociation for Information Technology Trust and aims to collect over 100 oral histories.

The story of LEO and its pioneering achievements are now much better known. Indeed when the Associa- tion for Information Systems, the premier association of Information Systems academics world wide had to find a name for its top award for a sustained contribution to its discipline it decided to name the award the LEO Award to as a way of recognizing excellence. But is it ‘mission accomplished’? David Caminer would have said “no it is work-in-progress, and you must try harder”. Even as late as August 2011, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, in his MacTaggart lecture, 10 in noting “You [Britain] invented computers in both concept and practice” added “it’s not widely known, but the world’s first office computer was built in 1951 by the Lyon’s chain of teashops” (my underlining). It has to be noted that the Guinness Book of Records has rec- ognised LEO as the world's first business computer.

Frank Land, Emeritus Professor, Department of Management London School of Economics

1 See http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/leo/default.htm 2 The Journal of Strategic Information Systems , Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2003. 3 A Computer Called LEO ; Georgina Ferry, Fourth Estate, London, 2003 4 Disappearing Britain": The British Cuppa with Wendy Craig (2006) 5 Electronic Brains: stories from the dawn of the Computer age by Mike Hally, Granta Publications, London, 2003 6 The bibliography is available on the LEO Computers website, http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/ 7http://archives.li.man.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=search&fieldidx1=dc.subject&fieldrel1=exact&fieldcont1=lyons%20electron ic%20office%20(leo) 8 http://web.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/363col.htm 9 See the Society website at http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/ 10 See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/aug/26/eric-schmidt-mactaggart-lecture-full-text

Heritage Libraries in Transition

Historic libraries continue to be at risk of reduced services or outright closure across the country - and indeed throughout Europe - due to public funding cuts and a still fragile economy. Budgets in the arts and in aca- demia, whether public or private, have been squeezed, if not outright strangled over the last few years, and this situation does not seem likely to improve after the next election, regardless of the political outcome. While it is not possible to cover the difficulties facing every heritage library, this article will consider a few major cases, and the long-term effects of reactions to the news concerning them. Image courtesy of Serge Bertasius Photography at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

In November, rumours began circulating that the Imperial War Museum Library was to be closed after con- sultation with staff. The exact details of the story have been difficult to verify, with contradictory information being supplied by Prospect, the union representing employees at the museum, and from those representing the museum itself. On its website, Prospect says that The Museum is facing an annual deficit of £4m because of cuts in government funding. It has drawn up proposals to: close its unique library and dis- perse its collection; cut important education services; cut 60–80 jobs; close the popular ‘Explore History’ fa- cility in London. 1 In a statement to the Financial Times, however, the IWM stated: Researchers and authors would still be able to access IWM’s core (accessioned) collections by appointment, however like other institutions that have faced budgetary restraints, restrictions on accessing materials will be certain days and or times. 2 Whether this presents backtracking caused by the public outcry, or whether the union overstated the original plans is unclear. However, the extent of ‘non-accessioned’ holdings in an organisation as large as the IWM is likely to be significant, and wholesale dispersal of them short-sighted. While the IWM has been put in an almost impossible position being required to make £4million savings, scholars and other stakeholders need this internationally renowned library to provide international quality support for their research, and this provision is still clearly very much at risk. A petition to save the IWM library and other IWM services has attracted over 19,000 signatures, and still gathering momentum at https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-george-osborne-mp-urgently-reverse-current-and-future-cuts-to-the- uk-imperial-war-museum-s-annual-operating-grant-in-aid-so-that-it-can-maintain-services-and-preserve- its-standing-as-an-international-centre-for-study-research-and-education (though may benefit from a snappier web address). A more detailed consideration of the proposed ‘changes’ at the museum have recently been added to Prospect’s website at https://library.prospect.org.uk//download/2015/00024 .

Further afield, Italy’s always rather precarious heritage funding has been dealt a blow by reforms introduced in December at the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism. Despite protests from the Italian academic community, Minister Dario Franceschini has remained intransigent. Italian scholars are reaching out to the international academic community to exert external pressure on their government to reverse the reforms. As a direct result of these changes, the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence is to lose its Director and will probably be brought under the not entirely successful aegis of the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence. Other Italian State libraries, such as the Braidense in Milan, the Estense in Modena, the Palatina in Parma and the Vallicelliana in Rome are also at risk. The story does not appear to have been reported by the UK media except in an approving note that Franceschini is calling on museums to build better coffee shops. 3

Back on home turf, the LIHG has been at the forefront of a campaign to ensure that the iconic Round Read- ing Room of the British Museum retains its literary heritage now that it has been relieved of its temporary use as an exhibition space. LIHG chair Renae Satterley has written to Neil MacGreggor, Director of the Brit- ish Museum noting the importance of having a publicly-available library in the most iconic library in the world . LIHG have suggested that dedicating the space to a museum of the book would be an appropriate – and popular – use of the room. Renae wrote: If a small city like The Hague can offer such a museum, surely a world-class city like London should be able to do the same . In conjunction with the Historic Libraries Fo- rum, she also wrote to Cilip, urging them to take action on this issue, but received a disappointing response, saying that Cilip council does not feel that there is a strong enough case to lobby the British Muse- um to use the Reading Room as a library , but that they will continue to interact and correspond with the British Museum as a stakeholder organisation . Like so many institutions, the British Museum is undergoing a difficult time of change and straightened circumstances, and is holding an ongoing review of all its services. An online survey was held last year, with the results summary due to be published in the spring. More information and opportunities to engage with the British Museum review should appear at http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/museum_of_the_future.aspx . These letters are available to read in the Coffee Area forum at www.lihg.org .

Meanwhile despite objections raised by the St Bride Foundation and many other local residents, the City of London has granted planning permission for the demolition and redevelopment of Fleet House in New Bridge Street and St Bride’s Tavern in Bridewell Place. Given the close proximity of the Foundation to the site the work will effectively surround all but the western elevation of the Foundation building, and in order to protect and safeguard the library and the artefacts held by the Foundation it has been necessary to close the library to the public from 17 th December until further notice, although existing appointments will be honoured.

However, whilst the reading room doors are closed regular exhibitions and evening events and talks will carry on as usual, ensuring that the library will continue to be a very active cultural and historical estab- lishment. The Governors say: For 120 years the library has been the jewel in the crown of the St Bride Foun- dation and we hope it will remain so for many years to come .4 The date of the library’s reopening is un- known at this point in time, but its important work will continue.

And finally: To the benefit and relief of scholars worldwide, the High Court has rejected the University of London’s claims that all additions to the Warburg Institute since 1944 belong to the University, and instead agreed that they form part of the Institute. Furthermore, the judge, Mrs Justice Proudman, held that the University is obliged to provide funding for the activities of the Warburg Institute. 5 The University of Lon- don is trustee of the Warburg Institute, and holds it on charitable trust following the terms of a 1944 Trust Deed, which obliges the University to maintain and preserve the Warburg library in perpetuity, to house it, and to keep it adequately equipped and staffed as an independent unit. The judge concluded that the Uni- versity’s determination to laden the Warburg Institute with expenses which financially support other areas of the University ‘flies in the face’ of the terms of Trust, and is not legally valid. The judge also made it clear that the University must continue to, in effect, keep the Institute in the manner to which it is accustomed.

This judgement has a scope which reaches far beyond the Warburg Institute, or even historic libraries in general, and has drawn considerable attention amongst legal and financial experts, who would seldom interest themselves in the fate of historic libraries. In effect, the judge has made it clear that if a Trust has been entered into by two parties, the terms of the Trust cannot be set aside at will by one of the parties when it ceases to serve their interest or becomes inconvenient. Pleasingly, she has also ruled that if one organisation has agreed to ‘maintain’ another, the maintaining body cannot saddle the maintained body with extensive costs. Effectively, the ‘senior’ partner of the Trust cannot get rid of its obligations by causing the ‘junior’ partner to become insolvent.

Regrettably, the University has decided to appeal against this decision.

Anna James Pusey House Library

1 https://www.prospect.org.uk/campaigns_and_events/national_campaigns/iwm/index 2 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c1d49f8-6bfa-11e4-b939-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3PBvpcYq3 3 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11309051/Italy-looks-abroad-for-new-Colosseum-director-in- museum-shake-up.html and http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/dec/21/italy-aims-to-make-museums-profitable 4 http://www.sbf.org.uk/library 5 http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/news/press-release-6-november/

WHAT’S ON Courses, lectures and events

Please email Erika Delbecque at [email protected] to reserve your place at LIHG Events

A walk through London’s library history – LIHG Event Saturday 7 February, 11.00-12.30 Meeting point: Senate House, London

Celebrate National Libraries Day with a free walking tour introducing the capital’s fascinating library history. Twenty-first century London contains some of the finest book collections in the world but this walk fo- cusses on their forebears. From Bloomsbury to the City, Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) will guide you through London’s streets and alleyways to uncover the ghosts of libraries past.

The walk’s meeting point will be the open-air entrance lobby of Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU at 11am. The event will finish not far from Blackfriars and St Paul’s stations at approximately 12.30pm. Please be prepared for no breaks.

Numbers are limited, and pre-booking is essential. This event is open to all newcomers to the Group’s walks and early booking is recommended.

Navigating London: a time-traveller’s guide to the city – LIHG Event Thursday 26 March, 18.00-19.45 Meeting point: Senate House, London £10

This brand new walk will carry you back through time to find out how previous generations have attempt- ed to make sense of London. Whether a Cockney by birth or visiting the city for the first time, come along to hear the fascinating stories that lie behind the guides, handbooks, lists, directories and maps of old.

Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) will share some of the printed advice our ancestors could call upon for getting to know London. From Bloomsbury to the Thames, discover long-lost places to penetrate, streets to scrutinize, people to pursue and areas to avoid.

The walk’s meeting point will be the open-air entrance lobby of Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU at 6pm. Navigating London ends at approximately 7.45pm not far from Charing Cross. Please be prepared for no breaks.

Numbers are limited to 25 people, and pre-booking is essential. This event is open to all, so early booking is recommended.

Caird Archive and Library at the National Maritime Museum – LIHG Event Friday 17 April 3-4.15 pm

The Caird Library is a comprehensive research library specialising in maritime history. Come along to this visit for a talk on the Library and its collections, a tour of the reading room and the archives stores, which house the most extensive maritime archive in the world, and a chance to explore some of the treasures from the collections, which include manuscripts, charts, maps and books dating back to the fifteenth century.

This is a free event but numbers are strictly limited to fourteen participants.

Seminar on the History of Libraries Unless stated otherwise: Monthly during term-time Tuesdays at 5.30 p.m. at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU,

Organized by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, and the LIHG. Convenors: Giles Mandelbrote (Lambeth Palace Library); Dr. Keith A. Manley (National Trust); Professor Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies); Dr. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute); Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary).

February 3 Dr. Jason Scott-Warren (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge): The Archaeology of an Elizabethan Li- brary: Reading Richard Stonley (c.1520-1600). Richard Stonley, an Elizabethan exchequer official and the first documented reader of Shakespeare, left two fascinating traces in the archives. The first comprises three volumes of journals covering periods of the 1580s and 1590s; the second is a booklist that was compiled when the contents of Stonley's house on Lon- don’s Aldersgate Street were sold off to defray his alleged embezzlements in office in 1597. This paper will dig into both documents in order to contextualize a highly distinctive early modern library.

March 3 Dr. Matthew Sangster (Birmingham): The Borrowers’ Register of St. Andrews University Library .

March 10 Dr Sheza Moledina (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon) on the history of the Jesuit library of Jer- sey in the 19th and 20th centuries. 4.30 Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB.

May 5 Dr. Jan L. Alessandrini (St. Andrews): Bombs on Books: Germany’s Lost Libraries of WWII . Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB. Questions concerning the rescue, reconstruction, and restitution of libraries during (and after) WWII continue to fox book historians. This paper focuses on the administrative and practical measures undertaken by German libraries that suffered some of the worst damages, including Hamburg, Lübeck and Rostock, to rescue rare books from deliberate destruction. Furthermore, it investigates the reconstruction that took place in the immediate aftermath of WWII, whilst tracing the displacement of books taken as trophies of war. Finally, this paper tackles the (thorny) issue of restitution, considering Cold War relationships, trans- national policies implemented to return lost books after the thaw in the 1990s, as well as the technological initiatives that are making rediscovered materials available again to wider audiences.

June 2 William Hale (Cambridge University Library): ”Painters, limners, writers, and bookbinders”: Mat- thew Parker's printed books . Lambeth Palace. Those wishing to attend should send their names in advance to Mary Comer ([email protected]; tel: 020 7898 1263), by 29 th May. Admittance not before 5.15 p.m. via the main gatehouse of Lambeth Palace. The Parker collection of manuscripts at Corpus Christi College is one of the glories of Cambridge, but Parker's still larger library of printed books has remained relatively little explored. As Parker Taylor Bibliog- rapher, William Hale spent three years cataloguing the collection and here looks at the history and charac- teristics of the library of one of the great English reformers.

June / July ‘Lost libraries 2’ walk by Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.). Date tbc.

CILIP Conference 2015 July 2-3 University of Liverpool £120-£310 Book early for cheaper rates

Registration is now open for the CILIP Conference 2015, with early booking discounts of over 20% on selected delegate packages for places booked by 24th April 2015.

The conference presents a diverse programme of activities including an exhibition, workshops and presentation sessions covering four main themes predicted to shape the future information environment: information management, information literacy and digital inclusion; demonstrating value, and digital fu- tures and technology. Confirmed keynote speakers include Shami Chakrabati, human rights activist and Director of Liberty; professor and author R. David Lankes; and author, journalist and activist Cory Doctor- ow. http://cilipconference2015.org.uk/

Archives & Texts 2015 University of Reading, Department of English Literature and Department of Modern Languages and European Studies Mondays 26 th January-9th March

26 January 1.10-2.30, Henley Business School, G03 Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Oxford) / with EMRC The Curi- ous History of the Conway papers 9 February 1-2.30, Henley Business School, G03 Dr Lisa Stead (English & Film, Exeter) Vivien Leigh as Crea- tive Labourer: Archives, Gender and Visibility 23 February 5-6.30pm, Museum of English Rural Life Dr Martha Fleming (Special Collections) Tracing the Emergence of Disciplines in the Creation of Catalogues and their Re-workings 9 March 5-6.30pm, Museum of English Rural Life Professor Carolyn Steedman (History, Warwick) Text or Archive? The Diaries (1800-15) of Joseph Woolley, Framework Knitter http://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/

Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies Tuesdays 2-4 pm University of Oxford, Weston Library

27 January - Myriam Silvera (Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) From manuscripts to books: the comparison between the manuscript tradition of a work by Isaac Orobio de Castro and the printed version of the same 3 February - Bart Wallet (Vrije Universiteit) Towards a Dutch Jewish Library: Language Politics and the Am- sterdam Jewish Book, 1795 - 848 10 February - Lucia Raspe (Goethe University) A Sephardic Minhagim (Book of Customs) from Amsterdam 17 February - Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University, Israel) The meaning of order: Siftei Yeshenim (Amsterdam 1680), the first printed Hebrew bibliography and its cultural implications 23 February - Theo Dunkelgrün (University of Cambridge) Samuel de Casseres (d.1660) and the Spanish and Hebrew Bibles of Amsterdam 1661 3 March - Marion Aptroot (Heinrich-Heine-University) Yiddish ephemera printed in Amsterdam 10 March - Javier Castaño (Spanish National Research Council) Laying the foundation for a New Tradition: A Baroque reading of Hispano-Jewish classics

The Print Before Photography The European print in the age of the copper plate & wooden block. Slade Lectures 2015 Antony Griffiths, Former Keeper of the Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum Wednesdays at 5pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building

28 January The world of the print: engravers and designers 4 February The publisher: finance, distribution and marketing 11 February The role of the state: copyright, censorship and patronage 18 February Buyers, collectors and connoisseurs 25 Feb The cheap print 4 March The print and the art historian 11 March Misunderstanding prints

Training programme for doctoral students of book history: Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Dundee

Edinburgh 30 January : Workshop on Bibliography and Textual Scholarship Dr Tom Mole, with Dr Katie Halsey and Dr Daniel Cook, Prof Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence (Edinburgh) and visiting speaker Professor Nicholas Halmi (Oxford). Dundee March (exact date tbc) : Workshop on Manuscript, Print and Digital Culture Dr Daniel Cook, with Dr Katie Halsey, Dr Tom Mole, and research staff at the University of Dundee. Visiting speakers Dr Jonathan Wild (Edinburgh) and Dr Anthony Mandal (Cardiff). Free to doctoral students from Scottish universities. http://edin.ac/14WGKuq

Medieval Studies at Oxford

6 February 5:30 pm, Convocation House Bodleian Library Dr Oren Margolis (Somerville College) Printing, Sculpture and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 7 February All Souls College Symposium , The Printed Achievement of Aldus Manutius 12 March 5pm, Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building Professor Sheldon Pollock (Columbia University) 20th Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture

The Reach of Bibliography . The Lyell Lectures Professor Michael Suarez (University of Virginia 28 & 30 April, 5, 7, 12 & 14 May 5 pm Weston Library, Oxford

Broadside Day 2015 21st February 9.45-5pm English Folk Dance & Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, London

Colin Bargery - The Truth to you I'll Tell: How much can we trust Broadside Ballads? Nigel Tallis - Seeing Music: George Scharf and the street musicians of London Steve Roud - What I don't know about Broadsides Lewis Jones - Broadside Tunes from Claude M. Simpson and the Folk and Broadside Tunes in The Full Eng- lish: A Comparative Analysis E. Wyn James - From Old Country to New World: Emigration in Welsh Ballads David Atkinson - Samuel Harward Printer and Bookseller in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, and Cheltenham Paul Gilchrist - Songs from the Sailorhood: Robert Gilchrist, 'Bard of Tyneside' Jonathan Cooper - Sheer cheek and cheap chic: chapbooks for children Peter Wood - Do broadsides play a part in relaying the great events of history? The Battle of Waterloo Sandro Jung - Re-reading the Eighteenth-Century Funeral Broadside and Its Occasion www.efdss.org 020 7485 2206

The Baskerville Society and the Centre for West Midlands History annual conference: The beauty of letters: text, type and communication in the eighteenth century 14-15 March 2015 University of Birmingham £85.00 Saturday and Sunday / £55.00 Saturday only / £40.00 Sunday only

In his preface to Paradise Lost (1758), John Baskerville described himself as ‘an admirer of the beauty of letters’. This conference takes his phrase as a starting point to explore the production, distribution, con- sumption and reception, not only of letters, but also words, texts and images during the long eighteenth century (c. 1688-1820). This conference will consider how writing, printing, performance and portrayal contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted the spread of knowledge and contributed to political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider world.

Keynote speakers: Lynda Mugglestone: Professor of the History of English, Times Lecturer, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford; Jenny Uglow: Author, critic, historian, and editor; Susan Whyman: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. http://www.typographichub.org/diary/entry/baskerville-society-the-beauty-of-letters-type-text-and- communication-in-th/

Kātip Chalabi: Bibliography and the Classification of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization (Past and Future) 7-8 March Istanbul Institute of Arabic Manuscripts, Cairo, the Center for Islamic Studies, and the Istanbul Foundation for Re- search and Education

The production of knowledge in today’s world has reached tremendous dimensions as a result of the opportunities provided by technology. Hence, the discipline of bibliography, concerned with classifying and reordering knowledge, determining knowledge relationships, not to mention the power to access and find it quickly and easily has become increasingly significant. The contribution from the heritage of Islamic scholarship to the discipline of bibliography from the 8 th century onwards, particularly through “al- fahāris” is immense.

The goals of this symposium are: to raise basic issues related to the Islamic classification of knowledge and bibliography; to reveal how this tradition can be reconsidered with respect to the modern discipline of bibliography; to provide a ground for discussing the scholarly achievements of 17 th century Ottoman scholar Kātib Chalabi, one of the most distinctive figures in Islamic bibliography; and to provide a ground for future research to update his magnum opus , Kashf al- Zunūn (known to 18th century Europe as Herbelot's Biblio- theque orientale) http://katipcelebi.info/en/

Collecting Texts & Manuscripts, 1660-1860 16 -17 April Plymouth University with Plymouth City Museum & Gallery £50.00 / Students and Unwaged £40.00

A scholarly conference on all aspects of libraries & literary collection, 1660-1860 This conference is timed to mark the centenary of the nationally designated Cottonian Collection’s gifting to the city of Plymouth in 1915. It examines the collection of books, texts, manuscripts, letters, and other literary artefacts across Britain from the Restoration to the high Victorian period. http://estore.plymouth.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=9&catid=85&prodid=6 91

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing and the Digital Humanities Summer Insti- tute (DHSI) 1-5, 8-12 and 15-19 June University of Victoria, British Columbia $300-$1250

This year will see an expansion from the regular 1 week institute to 3 weeks of courses, in part to support those enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at University of Victoria. Participants may choose to attend 1, 2, or all 3 week-long workshops. In 2015, 40 courses ranging from old favourites to exciting first-time ventures will be on offer. Each week of DHSI will include a week long training workshop, and the core week (June 8th-12th) will also include morning colloquia, lunchtime unconferences, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Throughout the institute, keynote lectures will be led by Malte Rehbein (Pas- sau), David Hoover (NYU), Claire Warwick (UCL), and Constance Crompton (UBC Okanagan). Discounts are offered for those booking before April, and tuition scholarships are available for students. http://dhsi.org/

Library History Seminar XIII: Libraries: Traditions and Innovations 31 July-2 August Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College, Boston

Boston, Massachusetts provides an apt setting to explore traditions and innovations in libraries. The Bos- ton area is home to many important library innovations in North America, including the first university library and the first large, free municipal library. At the same time, new information institutions continue to be created here, of which the Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Commonwealth of online heritage materials are two recent examples.

With Boston as the backdrop, this conference seeks to delve into the enduring and evolving aspects of libraries and librarianship. The convergence and divergence of the physical and the digital may result in opportunities and challenges that we do not yet realize. Traditionally libraries have made their collections available to defined audiences, but today it is increasingly difficult to define and delineate user communi- ties. At the same time, so-called “disruptive technologies” in publishing are resulting in new approaches to the collection and dissemination of information. The Library History Seminar XIII will provide a lively forum for such scholarly debate.

Exhibitions

Remembering Radcliffe: 300 years of science and philanthropy Ends 20 March - Admission free Bodleian Exhibition Room, Oxford

The Bodleian’s winter exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of John Radcliffe, a physician and philan- thropist who left a lasting mark on the University and city of Oxford. Radcliffe had an uncanny ability to ac- curately diagnose and successfully treat many of his patients, including Queen Anne, and on his death left the bulk of his fortune to charitable causes. The exhibition considers his legacy to Oxford, and the three buildings in the city which bear his name: the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe Observatory, and the Radcliffe Camera: the first circular library in Britain, and one of the country’s most distinctive and recognisable buildings.

Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 Ends 11 April – Admission free Cambridge University Library

This exhibition displays over fifty incunabula selected for their fascinating stories of use over the first hundred years of printing. Bindings, illuminations, marginalia, and provenance markings all contribute to telling the individual stories of these volumes, from the Gutenberg Bible (a unique opportunity to view both volumes of Cambridge's copy) to fragmentary broadsides. Previous owners whose annotations adorn these books include Katharine Parr, Hartmann Schedel (whose Nuremberg Chronicle is also on display), and numerous careful and careless fifteenth- and sixteenth-century scholars.

The accompanying virtual exhibition includes curator films and other multi-media content, plus full-length essays on more than twenty of the items on display. https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/incunabula/

Game of Crowns: The 1715 Jacobite rising Ends 10 May – Admission free National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Treachery, power struggles, royal in-fighting and religious wrangling are all reflected in the 'Game of Crowns' exhibition at the National Library of Scotland. The exhibition tells the story of the 1715 Jacobite rising using contemporary records, books, maps, portraits and songs to explain this turbulent period of British history. The attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty to the throne ended in defeat with James VIII — the Old Pretender — returning to exile in France. Thirty years later, his son, Bonnie Prince Charlie, suffered a similar fate with the failure of the 1745 uprising.

One of the documents on display will be the order for the massacre of Glencoe in 1692, when 38 members of the clan MacDonald were slaughtered because of their suspected Jacobite sympathies. The exhibition looks in detail at the period from 1688 to 1715 and the fierce contest for Crown of Great Britain, closing with a look ahead to 1745.

Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy 13 March –1 September – Admission £12 British Library, London

The British Library, as the custodian of two original Magna Carta manuscripts, will be drawing on its rich historical collections to bring to life a story that remains relevant today. Also on display will be Thomas Jef- ferson’s handwritten text of the Declaration of Independence, an original copy of the US Bill of Rights, together with other key documents and artefacts. The exhibition will be at the heart of a wider Magna Carta programme at the Library, with a series of public events, a conference, a learning programme and an online legacy for Magna Carta in 2015 and beyond. http://www.bl.uk/events/magna-carta--law-liberty-legacy

Aldus Manutius events

2015 sees the 500 th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, founder of the mighty Aldine Press, the first printing house to use Greek and Italic typefaces. Not surprisingly, there is a wealth of exhibitions and conferences in his honour this year. CERL has helpfully created a comprehensive calendar at http://www.cerl.org/collaboration/manutius_network_2015/main , but here are a few sample events.

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester 29 January-21 June John Rylands Library, Manchester

The John Rylands Library holds one of the largest collections of Aldine editions in the world. Many of these come from the Spencer library, purchased by Mrs Rylands in 1892. There are also other stories of local collectors, such as Richard Copley Christie and David Lloyd Roberts, and how the citizens of 19th century Manchester looked to Italy, and Venice in particular, for inspiration.

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly editions of classical authors, the introduction of italic type, and the development of books in small formats that were read much like modern paperbacks. The firm was continued after his death by his son and grandson until 1598.

The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade 6 February Warburg Institute, London

A one-day colloquium related to Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494-1598) display at the British Library will take place at the Warburg Institute on 6 February 2015. Rather than examining Manuti- us’ own output, which has already received a vast amount of scholarly attention, the focus will be on far less studied topics related to his later fame and reputation. The main theme will be how the notion of Al- dine books has changed over 500 years. http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15/afterlife-of-aldus/

Italian Libraries Tour - From Mediaeval manuscripts to the printed book. For the 500th Anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius of the Aldine Press. 22 –28 February The tour, accompanied by Neil Harris, Professor of Bibliography and Library, University of Udine, provides an introduction to Italian libraries and their vast heritage of manuscripts and printed books, opening doors that are normally kept closed. Each visit consists in a guided tour of the library and a hands-on discussion with select items from the collections, in order to explain the history of Renaissance printing in Venice and the role of Aldus. The objective is to show how the advent of printing changed the nature of the book and the library as a place where books are kept

Visits Malatestiana Library, Cesena; Classense Library, Ravenna; Marciana Library, Library of the Fondazione Cini; Library of the Correr Museum; Library of the Foundation Querini-Stampalia, Venice; Tipoteca Italiana, Cor- nuda.

Discussions Manuscripts before printing; The beginnings of printing; The beginnings of Aldus; The Venetian illustrated book; Aldus and the coming of Italic type; Ferdinando Ongania and the memory of Venetian printing

Per person sharing in a double room £1975 Per person single in a double room £2376 Cost includes accommodation; transfers (but not flights), 2 lunches, 2 dinners. http://www.johnhalltours.com/ [email protected] 020 8872 4747

NEWS

CILIP changes During 2014 CILIP introduced two new initiatives: changes to rules for member networks and changes to its governance structure. At the time the newsletter went to press only the governance change was formally put into place. The governance review is linked to the changes to member networks rules, but the latter were not integrated into the governance structure change. Changes to rules for member networks The key changes proposed by CILIP are outlined below. The existing rules can be found in Appendix F, part 2 in the general CILIP regulations http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/how-cilip-works/constitutional-documents .

• Addition of a value statement about Member Networks as an introduction to the Rules. • Clear regulations/rules/guidance cover sub-Groups/sub-Regions. • Addition of Memorandum of Understanding – setting out the key responsibilities of Member Net- works and CILIP, and the requirement to sign it once every two years. • Addition of core offer and delivery of core offer. • Group-only membership – administration by Head Office and rates set by Head Office. • Term of membership – two years for officers and members, can be reappointed. Maximum term of membership six consecutive years then need break for a year but in exceptional circumstance on request, can waive this to ensure continuation of committee activities. • Sets out what reporting is required by each member network annually: business plan and report, AGM minutes/governance, up-to-date details of committee members, financial information. • Addition of requirement for web pages on CILIP website to be the primary source on member networks and their activities. • Quorum for meetings reduced to one third plus one from half.

These changes were last discussed by participating special interest groups (SIGs), including LIHG, on 4 No- vember 2014 and CILIP have promised to integrate relevant suggested changes wherever feasible. The exact date for the rules changes has not been set, but should be completed by Spring 2015. There are two main changes which may affect LIHG: a) CILIP will create a central fund, funded by SIGs with large reserves to which smaller SIGs can apply for funds for projects and other group-related activities, but not general committee expenses; b) a maximum term of membership of two years for committee officers and members, with an overall maximum term of six consecutive years for committee membership. The rule that CIL- IP be the main website for groups will mean that LIHG will move all of its website content away from http://www.lihg.org/ to the group’s page on the CILIP site at http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special- interest-groups/library-and-information-history-group . We will continue to use lihg.org to host a calendar of events and a blog with links between the two sites. This should be completed by Spring 2015.

Changes to CILIP’s governance structure CILIP are also making changes to their overall governance structure and these changes will take place between November 2014 and April 2015. All SIGs were asked to comment on proposed changes, and repre- sentatives from CILIP met with LIHG in May 2014 to give a presentation on the proposals. The changes were then brought to members to vote at the CILIP AGM on 20 September. The changes to CILIP’s Royal Charter and Bye laws were then formally agreed by the Privy Council in November. The new governance structure now includes a Policy Committee and a Resources Committee. CILIP Council is renamed a Board and councillors have become Board Members, but the office of President is retained and the Board still consists of twelve elected and up to three co-opted Board members. The nomination process, role descrip- tions and personal specifications for Board members and Presidential team have been revised. Full details of all changes can be found on the CILIP website: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/about/projects- reviews/governance-review/what-has-changed-0.

Renae Satterley, Middle Temple

CILIP Chief Executive Annie Mauger is leaving the organisation to take up a new role as Director of Nation- al Business Units at the Chartered Institute of Housing, based in Scotland. Annie will step down as Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals on 30 January 2015.

West Dean College have signed an agreement to collaborate on a programme of training with the British Library, delivering a portfolio of short courses into aspects of preservation and collection care for libraries, picking up from the sadly defunct BL Preservation Advisory Centre. The programme focuses on Continued Professional Development and is aimed at professionals, conservation students and others interested in furthering their skills. The jointly-branded courses will be delivered at West Dean College and the British Library. www.westdean.org.uk/BL

Blairs Library , made up of more than 27,000 books and pamphlets has been moved from the National Li- brary of Scotland to the Sir Duncan Rice Library at the University of Aberdeen. The library collection from St Mary’s College, Blairs (Blairs College) had been on loan to the National Library of Scotland since 1974. Blairs was, from 1829 to 1986, a junior seminary for boys and young men studying for the Catholic priesthood. Much of the material in its collections dates from the period following the Reformation, when many Scottish Catholics were exiled abroad. Its Library includes the collections of the Scots Colleges in Douai (1576-1793) and Paris (1602-1793); the Pontifical Scots College in Rome (founded 1600), and the Scots Benedictine Abbey of St. James in Regensburg. Many of the books and manuscripts in the Collection are closely associated with famous or distinguished individuals, including Cardinal Beaton, the last pre-Reformation Scottish Cardinal and Archbishop Scheves of St Andrews; 17 th century books associated with the exiled Stuart Court in France; and one example of very early English printing which be- longed to the great Scottish historian Thomas Innes. www.abdn.ac.uk/library/cld/

Don’t forget National Libraries Day on 7 February! http://www.nationallibrariesday.org.uk/

AWARDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Prizes Awarded

James G. Ollé (1916-2001) was a distinguished writer and teacher in the field of library history; and LIHG has offered awards in his memory since 2002. The two worthy winners of the 2014 Ollé Award are Michelle Johanssen and Arnold Lubbers.

Long-standing committee member Alistair Black’s University has awarded him the honour of being their Centennial Scholar for 2014/15 in reflection of the excellence of his research.

Library and Information History editor Mark Towsey has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fel- lowship for 2014-15 (British Academy 2014)

David McKitterick, a long-standing member of the editorial board of Library and Information History, has been awarded the 2014 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize by Sharp, the preeminent award for work in the history of the book, for Old Books, New Technologies. The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700 (CUP, 2013).

Opportunities available

Sharp: George A. & Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize Application deadline: 31 January

SHARP annually awards a $1,000 prize to the author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print published in the previous year. All submissions must be in English and must have been copyrighted in 2014. (Translations of works originally copyrighted earlier are eligible, but the translations themselves must have been copyrighted in 2014.) Collections of essays by more than two authors, reference works, bibliographies and collaborative projects are not eligible and will not be considered. http://www.sharpweb.org/delong-book-history-prize/

Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen Special Collections Centre Visiting Scholar Awards Aapplication deadline: 2 February 2015

The award will be granted to scholars for a project relating to materials held in the Special Collections Cen- tre. Applicants will be in possession of a PhD but the award is open to researchers at any stage of their academic career. Visiting scholars will be granted access to library facilities at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, including access to the Wolfson Reading Room in the Special Collections Centre. Scholars should normally be resident in the Aberdeen area for the duration of the award, a 2-4 week period of study to be undertaken any time between 1 April and 20 December 2015. Funds may be claimed against travel, subsistence and other reasonable research expenses. Scholars will make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation and will be expected to submit receipts in order to claim expenses up to the value of £2,000.

To apply, please submit a project outline of 500-1,000 words, explaining the scope of the project and the relevance of the University of Aberdeen’s library collections to this research, along with a two-page CV.

Enquiries and applications should be addressed to: Amy Walsh, Administration Assistant, Library Admin- istration & Planning, The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA, [email protected]

Barnard Library Archives, Zine Library or Barnard Center for Research on Women Two grants of $2,500 to researchers using its collections during the period July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016. Deadline: February 15, 2015

Particular strengths of the three collections are the history of the college, second and third wave feminist and LGBTQ print ephemera (1970s-present newsletters, pamphlets, zines, etc.), riot grrrl, late 20th century girlhood, 20th century women's education, NYC modern dance history, representations of women’s sexual- ity and embodiment, contemporary zine culture, zines by women of colour. Undergraduate and graduate students, professors and independent scholars may apply, and award money may be used for whatever will facilitate the researcher's work at Barnard, including travel, housing, or childcare. https://az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0IpEsKIrqbOLvmJ&Preview=Survey&BrandID=barnard

Edinburgh University Scholarships for Masters Students The School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures is pleased to invite applications for Masters scholarships for entry in 2015-16. We will be awarding four Arthur Kitchin Scholarships and six LLC Scholarships. These exciting new schemes are designed to attract the best and brightest candidates to study in Edinburgh.

The scholarships are open to new Masters students who will be based in the School of Literatures, Lan- guages & Cultures, which includes the recently-revamped MSc in Book History and Material Culture run by the Centre for the History of the Book, as well as Asian Studies, Celtic & Scottish Studies, English Literature, European Languages & Cultures, and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. The School has a vibrant international community of 480 postgraduate students and 160 academic staff. We have regular research seminars, and postgraduate students run and edit the peer-reviewed journal Forum , which publishes contribu- tions from postgraduates working on culture and the arts.

Each of the 10 awards will cover funding equivalent to tuition fees for one year at the Home/EU rate for the chosen programme of study. Non-EU overseas applicants, and applicants to two-year full-time programmes or part-time programmes that involve distance learning are eligible to apply for the scholarships, but will be liable for any tuition fees in excess of £8,100.

Applicants for these awards must have applied for a Masters programme of study within the School of Lit- eratures, Languages and Cultures before 31st January 2015. Their references must have been submitted by 15 February. They must then submit an online scholarship application form by 16 February 2015. http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and- funding/funding/masters-students/masters-scholarships

John Rylands Library, Manchester: Visiting Research Fellowships Application deadline: 27 February

Candidates, whether in established academic posts or not, should at least hold a doctorate at the time of application. All applications must be based strongly on the Special Collections of the University of Man- chester Library. Applications are especially welcome in the areas of Revolutions in Print; Religions; Science; and Medicine; as well as those that have the potential to result in high-profile publications.

Applications for a Visiting Fellowship should include: a research proposal, including vision and methodolo- gy; an outline of the sources to be researched and consulted during the project; a curriculum vitae; a list of relevant publications; and two academic references, who will be contacted should your application be shortlisted.

Fellowships should usually be taken up at a mutually agreed time within 2015. http://www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/opportunities/visiting-research-fellowships/

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Creative Networks and Cultural Output: Contexts for Literary and Artistic Production Trinity College Dublin, 19-20 June. Jointly hosted by the School of English & the Department of Economics Keynote speaker William St Clair Deadline extended to January 31st

This conference aims to encourage dialogue and collaboration within and between the humanities, digital humanities, economics and social sciences concerning literary and artistic culture. We invite scholars who use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine and challenge existing research questions, accepted critical and theoretical paradigms, and historiographies.

It will bring together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine the relationship between creative output and economic forces in the long 19th century, a period of radical changes in the conditions of writers, artists, and musicians in the context of dynamic and interlocking economic, social, legal, technological and structural developments. www.networksandculture2015.com

Digital Material conference National University of Ireland, Galway, 21-22 May 2015 Plenary speakers: Jerome McGann & Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Deadline 31 st January

Recent years have seen an intensification of interest in both digital and material cultures. This broad trend has been mirrored in the academy by the growing prominence of digital humanities and the renewed focus on materiality and material objects within humanities disciplines. At the same time, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions are grappling with the theoretical and practical implications of preserving and exhibiting their material collections within increasingly digital infrastructures, while adapting to the challenges posed by born-digital materials.

The conference invites discussion of a series of related issues: does a reinvigorated interest in material culture represent a conservative reaction to the perceived threat of digital culture, or is it evidence of an em- brace of the innovative affordances of the digital? How do digital media represent the materiality of texts and objects? Does the digital constitute its own form of materiality?

Proposals are invited on any aspect of the conference theme, including:

• What is meant by ‘digital materiality’? • What is lost and gained when we study material objects through their digital surrogates? • Relationships between digital texts and material texts. • Creation, curation, and preservation of digitised and born-digital artefacts. • Digital archives and material archives. • What parts of our digital culture will future scholars unearth? • Do digital objects embody their culture in the way that material objects do? • Does memory inhere in the material better than in the digital? • The digital collector: can we be possessive about digital artefacts? • Object lessons: digital and material pedagogy. • Representations of the intersections of digital and material cultures. • Technology, equipment, storage, media; matter, substance, simulation, virtuality; cloth, fabric, pulp, bits, bytes.

Proposals may include: 20-minute papers (abstract: 300-400 words). Panels (individual paper abstracts plus 250-word overview). Roundtables (abstract: 300-400 words plus names of speakers). All participants should include a short biography (100-200 words) with their proposals. http://digitalmaterial.ie

Beth M. Whittaker and Lynne M. Thomas eds. The 21st Century Special Collections Reader: contemporary approaches for special collections Deadline 1 February 2015

The 21st Century Special Collections Reader will feature essays from emerging professionals and accomplished librarians and archivists, on a variety of topics that illustrate the depth, diversity, and complexity related to the broad realm of special collections in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage organiza- tions. Special collections work in libraries is not just about “old books.” We seek essays that describe current, pragmatic approaches to special collections work from collections of all kinds, sizes, and resource lev- els, and the diverse professionals that work within them, as well as reflective “thought pieces” about our current professional environments. We particularly welcome new perspectives on traditional roles and responsibilities and compelling examinations of the work of the contemporary cultural heritage professional.

Tentative topics include: curation in an age when the concept of curation is diluted; donor relations and administration; advocacy and marketing; the intersection of curation and digital humanities; “atypical” special collections; open access and open culture; linked data, metadata, and data wrangling.

Other ideas for chapters that reflect both current challenges and potential future frontiers are encouraged. Our target audience includes working professionals, students, and library administrators.

While we are not yet formally contracted, the publisher that we are currently working with has strong open access policies that currently meet institutional mandates in place at the editors’ respective institutions, and we are assured of the same for chapter contributors.

Prospective authors are asked to submit a Word document summary of their chapter concept, no more than one page in length, by February 1, 2015 to Lynne M. Thomas ([email protected]). Final chapters will likely be 4500-9000 words. We anticipate final chapters to be due June 1, 2015, although deadlines may be adjusted for revision and other concerns. http://lynnemthomas.com/?p=1475

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: annual conference: “Life and Death in the 19th -Century Press” Ghent University, Belgium, 10-11 July 2015 Deadline 1 February

Life and death dominate any culture, but especially Victorian culture. Not only was there an increase in population, Victorians also lived longer due to advancements in medicine, science and public health. This longer life went hand in hand with a fascination with death. Queen Victoria herself was obsessed with rituals of mourning, as were many other contemporaries who tried to grasp the afterlife via scientific, religious and/or spiritual modes of thinking. The press responded to this attraction with life and death: it published birth and death notices, advertised for funerals, mourning clothes and invigorating medicines and featured stories of murder, birth and eternal life.

This conference welcomes proposals for papers that address any aspect of nineteenth-century British

23 magazines or newspapers. However, it will particularly encourage proposals on ‘Life and Death’ in the nineteenth-century press. Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

The lifecycle of periodicals, texts and authors: emergence, development, death, and afterlife of magazines and newspapers, as well as of specific texts and/or authors. Genres dealing with life and death: biographies, obituaries, wills, necrologies, death notices, birth an- nouncements, funeral advertisements. Birth and death of methodologies in periodical studies 19th-century views on life and death: spiritualism (e.g. séances, mediums, ghosts), rituals of mourning, religion, science or pseudo-science (e.g. Darwinism or phrenology, mesmerism), - animal life and zoology 19th-century demographics: conditions determining life and death (public health, poverty, war), census research. Life and death in poetry and prose: Elegies, obituary poems, in memoriams, ghost stories, stories of murder and death. Life and death in visual culture: Victorian spirit photography, post-mortem photography, depictions of life and death in drawings and paintings. Life and death in advertising: advertisements for food products, medicines, mourning clothes. Spectacular births and deaths: royal births, multiple births, gruesome deaths, murder

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short CV (1 page max) to [email protected]

RSVP offers a number of travel grants for graduate students and independent scholars. If you want to be considered for one of these grants indicate that you are a graduate student or independent scholar and wish to be considered for one of these awards on your abstract. http://www.RSVP2015.ugent.be

Working with Nineteenth-Century Medical and Health Periodicals St Anne’s College, Oxford, 30 May 2015 Co-hosted by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ and AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Commu- nities’ projects at the University of Oxford. Deadline 13 th February

The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the number of medical periodicals available to the interested reader. Publications such as the Lancet and British Medical Journal are familiar names to many of us, still published and widely read today. The period also saw a huge range of smaller journals appearing, as practi- tioners increasingly organised themselves into more discrete medical ‘specialisms’ towards the end of the century. The Asylum Journal , later Journal of Mental Science , for example, sought to bring together the knowledge of those working in the expanding field of psychiatry, whilst The Homoeopathic World provided a forum for discussion for those practicing homoeopathic medicine, and was read both by medical professionals and laypeople.

As digitization projects advance, an increasing number of these medical periodicals are becoming available to researchers. We are interested in learning more about the nature and methodologies of current research projects that involve working with these journals, as well as broader issues surrounding this kind of research: digitizing material, locating journals (particularly obscure ones), and using and searching collections. We will be asking questions about how to read periodicals, how to situate these materials within a broader historical medical context, and how to construct narratives based on periodical research. In the longer term we would like to build up a network of people working closely on or with medical and health periodicals. We welcome proposals from researchers working on medical periodicals across the world. If you would like to give a short (c.10 mins) presentation on your work in this area, please

24 email [email protected] , including an abstract of not more than 250 words and a short biography. http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/ http://conscicom.org/

IFLA World Library and Information Congress: IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section Cape Town, South Africa, 14-21 August 2015. Deadline extended to 15 February

Session 1: Fostering collaboration to build and preserve African cultural heritage http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81/node/1013

This session will explore various international projects dedicated to preserving African cultural heritage. The case studies will focus on successful methods for fostering collaboration, international concerns versus local cultural priorities, contextualizing African collections outside of Africa, and the ways in which national copyright laws and international treaties can serve to hamper preservation activities.

Examples of relevant topics might include: • The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project • Islamic Manuscripts from Mali • Genocide Archive Rwanda • Collaborations between Scotland and Malawi • African heritage collections outside Africa • Challenges in managing heritage collections in Africa • The impact of copyright on international collaboration

Session 2 (Satellite Meeting): Managing and promoting special collections in Africa: The Bleek-Lloyd Collec- tion and Beyond. http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81/node/986

This one-day satellite meeting will highlight the management and promotion of African special collections using the Bleek and Lloyd Collection as an introduction and conceptual framework for further discussion. The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is a unique group of material about the /Xam Bushmen, compiled by philol- ogist, Dr. Wilhelm Bleek, and his sister-in-law, Lucy Lloyd, between 1870 and 1881, mostly held by the Uni- versity of Cape Town Libraries. The pair recorded the language, stories, life-histories and way of life of the /Xam in a series of notebooks, as well as drawings made by the informants and other material including photographs, maps and ephemera. These collections are listed in Unesco's Memory of the World Register as documentary heritage of international importance. A large portion of this collection has been digitised and is available online through the Libraries digital collections site.

The Section welcomes proposals about the Bleek-Lloyd collection itself or papers relating to the management and promotion of African collections. Examples of possible themes include: challenges and opportunities of managing split collections and diverse locations; managing mixed-format collections; collaboration with a curatorial center; digitization, crowd-sourcing; challenges associated with language, dialect, and no- tation; public outreach; and ways to stimulate new research. Proposals may also address the issues surrounding the management of collections from indigenous African cultures or how to become a Memory of the World collection.

Presenters must forward the full text of their papers by 30 April 2015 to allow time for review and for preparation of translations (if applicable). Presentations should not take longer than 25 minutes to deliver and papers should be no longer than 20 pages.

For all proposals, please provide: name and institution of presenter(s); an abstract of the paper or presentation up to 350 words; relevant biographical information of presenter(s); the name of the session most appropriate to your presentation.

Please send proposals to David Farneth ( [email protected] ) and Edwin C. Schroeder ([email protected] ).

What do you lose when you lose a Library ? Belgium, University of Leuven, 9-11 September 2015 Keynote speakers: Aleida Assmann (Heidelberg and Tuebingen), David McKitterick (Trinity College) , Ismet Ovčina (National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegowina) , Michael F. Suarez, S.J (Virginia) , Her- bert Van de Sompel (Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory), Father Justin (Saint Cathe- rine’s Monastery, Sinai). Deadline 2 March

To commemorate the centenary of the destruction of the Library in 1914, the Goethe-Institut Brüssel, the British Council Brussels and the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) are organising a three day international conference on the challenging topic: What do we lose when we lose a library ?

The fragility of libraries in their material and digital dimension remains, 100 years after the fire, one of the greatest challenges for the transmission of human knowledge. The two conference themes Library & Herit- age and Library & Digital Challenge will shed light on the vision and approach to the past and the future of libraries. Scholars in the field of history, library science, information science, digital humanities, cultural and conservation disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. The conference is addressed to scholars as pioneers of organising cultural memory through expertise and knowledge. The aim is to raise worldwide public consciousness of the important task of sharing collective and cultural memory, and to raise aware- ness of the challenges libraries face in performing this task.

Do you have a challenging perspective or new enlightening research on the conference subjects Libraries, Heritage & Memory and Libraries and Digital Challenge you want to present at the conference? Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to present during the Leuven Full papers will be published in the post conference proceedings.

Theme I : Libraries, Heritage & Memory Topic 1 Destruction of libraries Topic 2 Social and cultural impact of libraries Topic 3 Collection care & preservation

Theme II : Create and maintain. Libraries and Digital Challenge Topic 4 Digital Libraries: Identity and Society Topic 5 Legal issues and sustainability of Digital Libraries Topic 6 Technological Opportunities for Libraries https://kuleuvencongres.be/libconf2015/website/call-for-papers-and-posters

NEW RESOURCES In Print

Library & Information History Volume: 30, Number: 4 (November 2014) http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/lbh/30/4 Gary David Jx: Reading Roman History to Understand the French Revolution: Rufus King’s Commonplacing of Edward Gibbon, 1799–1803 Stauffer Suzanne M.: The Intelligent, Thoughtful Personality: Librarianship as a Process of Identity For- mation Witt Steven W.: International Mind Alcoves: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Libraries, and the Struggle for Global Public Opinion, 1917– Reviews & Bibliography

Peter Aronsson & Gabriella Elgenius (Eds) National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010: Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014) ISBN 9780415853965 £85 National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifesta- tion of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. It examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states – former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities – deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states.

Tilly Blyth (ed.) Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World (London: Scala, 2014) ISBN 9781857599015 £35 Major new book on communications technology drawing on the world-class expertise and collections of the Science Museum, London. Includes newly commissioned essays by David Attenborough, James Gleick, Martha Lane Fox, Tom Standage, Stephen Baxter and others. Information Age explores the transformations that have taken place in human information and communication in the last 200 years. It examines the development of information and communications networks from the nineteenth century to the present day. It includes excerpts from unique interviews with the BBC team who created the world's first global satellite broadcast in 1967, soldiers who used GPS during the first Gulf war in 1991, and business people from Cameroon whose lives have been transformed by the economic possibilities of mobile telephony since 1997. Richly illustrated and refreshingly accessible, Information Age illuminates stories about our digital age and gives a voice to the users, as well as the innovators, of new technology.

Cambridge University Library Emprynted in this manere: Early printed treasures from Cambridge Universi- ty Library. Copies are available from the University Library for £10. Essays by sixty invited authors - art historians, typographers, incunabula specialists, and library curators - are accompanied by over two hundred newly commissioned photographs. The volume also includes a poem, published here for the first time, written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy in response to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad A History of the Book in 100 Books (London: The British Library, 2014) ISBN 9780712357562 £25 Casting off old technologies and taking on new ones has been part of the history of the book since Egyptian times. This volume tells the story of the book from the very beginning: From inscriptions on tombs to the first writings on papyrus; how scrolls gave way to the first bound 'codex' books in Roman times; from ex- clusive and expensive hand-scribed books, to the creation of movable type, and the invention of printing for the masses; and from the printed book to the digital book, the ebook reader...and beyond. Illustrating this story with lavish photography of some of the most treasured artefacts from the world's historic collections, A History of the Book in 100 Books traces mankind's very long quest to communicate ideas and knowledge.

Robert Darnton Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (London: The British Library, 2014) ISBN 9780712357616 £25 Robert Darnton explores three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression. In 18th- century France, censors navigated the intricacies of royal privilege in a working collaboration with authors and booksellers on the making of literature. In 19th-century India, the efforts of the British Raj to control "native" literature gave voice to an Indian opposition that exposed the tensions between Britain's liberal principles and imperial power. And in 20th-century East Germany, the Communist Party's attempt to engineer literature actually yielded a range of outcomes from brutal repression to the complex negotiation behind some of the best-known works by German authors. Censorship emerges not as a simple repression that is everywhere the same but a melding of power and culture grounded in history.

Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, David Squires (Eds) Porn Archives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) Pbk ISBN: 9780822356714 $29.95 Hbk ISBN: 9780822356714 $99.95 While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography - as an aesthetic, mor- al, and juridical category - is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts. By seg- regating and regulating access to sexually explicit material, archives have helped constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result, porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the production of pleasure. The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally varied interactions between porn and the archive. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders, transforms technologies, consolidates sexual identities, and challenges notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge.

Tom Glyn Reading Publics: New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780823262649 $35.00 Since before the Revolution, New York's reading public used a range of public libraries as the term was un- derstood by contemporaries. Most histories of public libraries in the United States begin in or after 1876, the year in which the American Library Association was founded. They focus solely on the "modern" public library. A history of the institution in the city of New York over the course of more than a century and a half shows how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Additionally, an exploration of how the definition of a public library shifted over time sheds light on changes in how the public conceived of public institutions gener- ally and how its expectations of government expanded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the history of public libraries and public institutions and of readers and reading in the United States.

Stephen Hebron Dr Radcliffe's Library: The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2014) ISBN 9781851244294 £12.99 The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings, portraits, en- gravings and photographs this book tells the fascinating story of its creation, which took more than thirty years, and describes its subsequent place within Oxford University. On his death in 1713 celebrated physician John Radcliffe directed that part of his fortune should be used to build a library on a site at the heart of Oxford, between the University Church of St Mary's and the Bodleian. Early designs were made by the brilliant architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, who outlined the shape so familiar today: a great rotunda sur- mounted by Oxford's only dome. It would take decades to acquire and clear the site, and after Hawks- moor's death in 1736 the project was taken over by the Scottish architect James Gibbs, who refined the designs and supervised the construction of 'Dr Radcliffe's Library', creating, in the process, an architectural masterpiece and Britain's first circular library.

George Houston Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014) ISBN 9781469617800 $59.95 In this engaging and meticulously researched study, George Houston examines a dozen specific book collections of Roman date in the first comprehensive attempt to answer these questions. Through a careful analysis of the contents of the collections, Houston reveals the personalities and interests of their owners, shows how manuscripts were acquired, organised, and managed, and identifies the various purposes that libraries served. He takes up the life expectancy of manuscripts, the sizes of libraries, and dangers to books, as well as the physical objects within libraries from scribal equipment to works of art. The result is a clearer, more specific, and more detailed picture of ancient book collections and the elements of Roman libraries than has previously been possible.

Leslie Howsam (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2014) ISBN 9781107625099 £19.99 Throughout human history, the world's knowledge and fruits of the creative imagination have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide- ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodological aspects of this interdiscipli- nary field. The first part considers book cultures from local, national and global perspectives. Part two, organized around the dynamic relationship between the material book and the mutable text, develops a loosely chronological narrative from early writing, through manuscript and early printing, to the institution of a mechanized book trade, and on to the globalization of publishing and the introduction of the electronic book. A third part takes a practical turn, discussing methods, sources and approaches: bibliographical, archival and reading experience methodologies, as well as pedagogical strategies.

Mark Leslie Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (Toronto: Dundurn, 2014) ISBN 9781459728608 Ca.$11.99 It's been said that books have a life of their own, but there's more than literature lurking in the cobwebbed recesses of dusty bookstores and libraries across Canada. Read about some of the most celebrated and ee- rie bookish haunts, and try to brush off that feeling of someone watching from just over your shoulder...

Michelle Levy and Tom Mole, eds. The Broadview Reader in Book History (Peterborough, ON 2014) ISBN 9781554810888 $49.95 The reader reprints 33 key essays in the field, grouped conceptually and provided with headnotes, explana- tory footnotes, an introduction, a chronology, and a glossary of terms. On the back cover, Leah Price says it's "a varied collection that demonstrates the conceptual reach as well as the disciplinary range of book history" and H.J. Jackson says it's "an ideal guide to the state of the art at the moment and to the paths that may be open for the future."

Online

A virtual issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly is available online until the end of April. It includes free access to 10 articles selected from the recent CCQ special issues on "RDA Around the World" and "ISBD: The Bibliographic Content Standard" including The Origins and Making of the ISBD: A Personal History, 1966–1978 by Michael Gorman. http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/bes/ccq-access15 .

Maney, publisher of Library and Information History is offering Editor's Choice articles for 2015 free to download. When visiting a journal page, click on the 'Editor's Choice' tab to browse the full list. http://www.maneyonline.com/action/showPublications?category=40163294

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries: English Poetry 1690-1720 guest edited by Andreas K.E. Mueller and co-edited by Holly Faith Nelson and Katherine Ellison. J.A. Downie Paying for Poetry at the Turn of the 18th Century, with Particular Reference to Dryden, Pope, & Defoe Adam Rounce The Difficulties of Quantifying Taste: Blackmore and Poetic Reception in the Eighteenth Cen- tury Conrad Brunström In Prose and Business lies extinct and lost?: Matthew Prior and the Poetry of Diplomacy Sharon Young The Critick and the Writer of Fables?: Anne Finch and Critical Debates, 1690 - 1720 Danielle Bobker The Literature and Culture of the Closet in the Eighteenth Century Ula Klein Feminist Recovery Practices and Digital Pedagogies: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women Poets http://english.illinoisstate.edu/digitaldefoe/ .

Over 200 of ProQuest's most widely used databases are now indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. Among the important ProQuest databases that are now available via Pri- mo are Early English Books Online ; ProQuest Central; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Periodicals Archive Online; Periodicals Index Online; and approximately 50 abstracting and indexing databases, which join the growing list of subject indexes in Primo Central.

The Yellow Nineties Online (www.1890s.ca ), Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, eds A complete digital edition of The Yellow Book (1894-97) has been made available online. All 13 volumes have been marked up for searching, and the editors provide a critical introduction for each volume as well as contextual overviews. Users can also access contemporary reviews of the periodical and advertising material used to promote it, as well as scholarly biographies on some of The Yellow Book’s contributors and associates. Peer-reviewed by NINES, The Yellow Nineties Online is an open-access electronic resource for the study of the avant-garde aesthetic periodicals that flourished in Great Britain at the fin de siècle.

From the blogosphere

Vintage library card photos http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/library-cards-vintage.htm

Borrowing books in St. Andrews in 1972 http://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/52- weeks-of-historical-how-tos-week-48-how-to-borrow-a-library-book/

The Weston Library opens its doors https://levelt.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/westonlibrary-opens- its-doors/

From the media:

Independent on Sunday (9/9/14): Make more Elbow room for the nation's libraries, says Guy Garvey http://www.independent.co.uk/9849304.html

History Today (11/11/14): The birth of the book auction http://www.historytoday.com/amy-bowles/birth-book-auction

Guardian (20/11/14): "I quit! Why I won’t be finishing my history of the book" By Rick Gekoski http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/nov/20/quit-history-of-the-book-rick-gekoski

Mashable (26/11/14): 'The Pages Project' brings the beauty of physical books online http://mashable.com/2014/11/26/the-pages-project-books/

Telegraph (12/1/15) Sounds of history could be lost forever, British Library warns http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11341238/Sounds-of-history-could-be-lost- forever-British-Library-warns.html

BBC News (17/1/15): Saving Bosnia's past from the ashes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30798537

Guardian (18/1/15) Before Google, what did we want to know? Ask the New York Public Library http://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/jan/18/google-new-york-public-library-archive- queries

HELP WANTED

Vacancy for Voluntary Archivist The Croydon Airport Society maintains a small museum and a large archive covering the history of Croydon Airport from 1916 to 1959.The archive has a wide range of items some of which are on display in the museum. The current leading archivist is due to retire and we need to recruit an experienced archivist to re- place him. Ideally the person should be part or fully retired, live fairly close to Croydon and have an interest in aviation. The archive currently consists of around 40,000 items covered in paper records and also in a family of MS works, and Excel databases. It is expanding and one of the duties of the archives team is to receive dona- tions and select those to be added to the archives. A larger project is planned to bring all the electronic data into a coherent format to make it suitable for importing into a single comprehensive database. The current team of 5 volunteers work from home and meet most Monday afternoons at Airport House, the original airport terminal, on the Purley way. The society is a registered charity and the vacancy is unpaid but expenses can be claimed. For further information please visit our website www.croydonairportsociety.org.uk or contact Dennis Goswell at [email protected] tel. 020 8647 6196.

Help is needed to de-duplicate, tag and organise 50,000 historiated initials and typefaces on the web at https://www.flickr.com/photos/bookhistorian/ . Little or no experience is required. Please contact [email protected] for further information.

Sylvia Holton Peterson and Bill Peterson would appreciate suggestions, corrections, and new information for their catalogue of William Morris’s library at http://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/ . They say “We are examining all the obvious sources, but we know that we may overlook some books and manuscripts because they are so widely scattered”. Contact Bill at [email protected] if anything comes to light.