Series 4, no. 41 Spring 2018

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NEWS FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the first Library & Information History Group newsletter of 2018, and my first editorial as the group’s new Chair; I’m sure many of you who know Renae will realise that I have some formidable shoes to fill, and I will do my very best to uphold the high standards she has set for the group. I would also like to thank her once again, on behalf of the committee, for her hard work and devotion as Chair, and hope that she will continue to be a strong presence within the group.

Following my promotion, we also welcome to Reception at Maggs Bros to celebrate the 50th-anniversary of the committee Sophie Defrance as our new the Library and Information History Journal (photo credit: Publicity Officer, who will take charge of our Dorothy Clayon). For the report on this event, turn to page 18. social media presence and monthly updates. Jill Dye takes over as Conference Organiser, and will be in charge of organising our 2018 annual conference which this year is taking CONTENTS place at St. Bride’s in London on Saturday 7th July. Our thanks also go to Monica Blake, our FEATURE ARTICLE P. 2 outgoing Conference Organiser, for all her MESSAGE FROM RENAE SATTERLEY P. 4 hard work and dedication to the group. HISTORIC LIBRARIES IN FOCUS P. 5 Gregory Toth takes over as Events Organiser. NEWS P. 7 In this issue we have reports on last year’s LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS P. 9 50th anniversary celebrations for Library & CONFERENCES P. 13 Information History Journal by Dorothy AWARDS AND BURSARIES P. 16 Clayton, the recent Historic Libraries Forum EXHIBITIONS P. 16 Conference by Mhairi Rutherford, and our tour of the Royal College of Surgeons and REPORTS P. 17 Physicians in Glasgow by yours truly; not to PRINTED RESOURCES P. 22 mention two very interesting articles by Harry BACK MATTER P. 24 Carson and David Stumpp.

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FEATURE ARTICLE near the bottom (Fig. 1). To me the availability of the Wing CD-ROM FREE ONLINE AVAILABILITY OF THE WING CD-ROM, edition is notable news for two reasons. First, 1996 EDITION when the ESTC/NA office received the CD- Formerly a cataloguer for the English Short Title ROM, ESTC cataloguers almost immediately Catalogue, David Stumpp is pleased to announce used this edition to the exclusion of prior the availability of the 1996-edition of Wing CD- printed editions. This is not to say that we ROM on ESTC's web-matching site. ignored previous editions. We referred to them as necessary, but we preferred the CD- Before moving to the United Kingdom, I ROM, because it was the most current Wing worked from 1997 to 2008 as a cataloguer for reference. The second reason the Center for Bibliographical Studies and THE AVAILABILITY OF Research - a humanities research centre at the why I am so excited about WING CD-ROM IS NOTABLE University of California, Riverside and the NEWS FOR TWO REASONS home of the English Short Title Catalogue, this change is North America (ESTC/NA) office. As a former that the Wing CD- ESTC cataloguer, I have to a certain extent ROM utility in the STAR continued to be involved in the project and I interface, for its entire duration up until just am ever a proponent of its use and of recently, had an inherent problem of not contributions towards its growth. displaying all the internal fields that were available in the original Windows 95 interface, Hence, I am happy to announce the particularly the field that - when the somewhat-new availability of the 1996 CD- information was available - expanded a ROM edition of the Short-title catalogue of printer’s / publisher’s / bookseller’s initials into books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, their full name. Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 by In the late 90s, the ESTC - with permission Donald Goddard Wing via the ESTC STAR web- from the Modern Language Association (MLA) - matching interface. This is an account-based created basic records from the Wing CD-ROM web service provided to the world’s libraries by to be matched against the database. When an the ESTC/NA for the inclusion and item known to Wing was found lacking in the maintenance of their holdings in the ESTC. It is ESTC, a ‘placeholder’ record was left to fill the also currently the only means by which to gap until a proper report was received. Over search the last-published edition of the Wing time, as the office chipped away at its catalogue if your enormous backlog of Xeroxed bibliographic library does not reports sent from happen to be one of libraries worldwide, the few libraries most placeholder willing to have spent records were eventually thousands for the CD- upgraded to full ROM package while it Fig. 1 Links to Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) edition, a keyed version of antiquarian cataloguing Pollard and Redgrave, Short-Title Catalogue of English Books standards.1 There are was still available for 1475-1640, and the Library of Congress Authority file online. purchase. (Image courtesy of the English Short Title Catalogue, North yet a small number of America (ESTC/NA). those placeholders This feature has remaining in the actually been available in this way for many catalogue that will be resolved in time or that years now, but until recently it was not fully simply have no resolution by virtue of being functional. Some cataloguers who have made errors or because the original target of the use of their libraries’ web matching accounts entry was lost, destroyed, or erroneous, i.e. may already be familiar with it, because there ghosts. is a link on the main ESTC/STAR search page,

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Quite lamentably, the 510 reference fields in if a library were to do so and is one of the many thousands of records were left citing many institutions which share their records previous editions of Wing. The result is that with WorldCat, the error could be while an ESTC record might cite a (2nd ed., compounded further, possibly causing 1994), a (2nd ed.), or even a (1972 ed.) of Wing, confusion between holdings and the alpha-numeric citation in the 510 should misperceptions in regard to what editions actually refer to an entry in the CD-ROM actually exist. edition, the record having been upgraded accordingly. Proper attention to this detail was As I mentioned earlier, the inclusion now of not overlooked as part of a formal policy fields previously unavailable in the STAR decision. It was one of those unfortunate loose interface is a great improvement. For example, ends that are all too common in a soft-money on any occasion in which you might have project. It simply was not high enough on the encountered a 500 note in an ESTC record priority ladder. stating that a book-trade member’s full name came from Wing, this is the very field from And why is this important? Because Wing which that information derived. This was a numbers have changed over the years. As the element of the CD-ROM I frequently referred breadth of the catalogue expanded through to as an ESTC cataloguer. Since part of our editions, new Wing numbers were created. As function as cataloguers is to verify the validity authorship was discovered or re-evaluated, for of information in the records we encounter for example, or as fragmentary materials were the benefit of the public, I heartily welcome its pieced together into properly associated return. wholes, contemporary Wing numbers were cancelled and their catalogue entries were either amended to fit the new information or absorbed into other entries (fig. 2). A Wing

Fig. 3 Example of a CD-ROM Wing entry as seen via the ESTC/STAR web-matching interface that includes publication information not formerly included in previous editions of Wing. (Image courtesy of the English Short Title Catalogue, North America (ESTC/NA)) Fig.2 Example of a cancelled Wing entry from the Wing (CD- ROM, 1996) edition utility as seen via the ESTC/STAR web- The late Henry Snyder, for many years the matching interface. (Image courtesy of the English Short Title director of the ESTC/NA, once asserted to me Catalogue, North America (ESTC/NA)) that the ESTC in the present day was the most number from the original 1945 edition, for up-to-date version of Wing. While this is more example, will, in most cases, be consistent or less accurate, I have long maintained that through later editions, but this is not Wing-by-way-of-ESTC-records has not been a universally true. suitable stand-alone alternative to the CD- ROM, i.e. the last formal edition, or to any of More to the point, because Wing-era records its print predecessors, because the ESTC is in the ESTC are based on a template of the more akin to an edited history than to an Wing CD-ROM citations, to associate a current original source. Although it is true that many ESTC number with a previous, printed edition ESTC records for that time period were of Wing is potentially inaccurate. Additionally, created directly from entries taken from the

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Wing CD-ROM, we changed details as we A FOND FAREWELL learned more about any item in question. We made unilateral decisions regarding Wing Our former chair Renae Satterley looks back on numbers and their viability (for example, Wing seven years of being part of the LIHG committee ghosts), and, more importantly, we were and is optimistic for the future of library and human and capable of error.2 information history research.

Regaining access to the CD-ROM for web- I first joined the LIHG committee in 2010 as matchers is as important as retaining past the newsletter editor for the group. Shortly editions of any other important printed afterwards, my involvement was expanded sources, otherwise we have little chance to when I also took on the role of events discover what mistakes might have been made coordinator and although quite a big job, it along the way. It is, for one, a way in which was useful in many ways to organise the two information potentially gets lost. So, from the elements together. After Kathryn McKee’s moment you read this article, if you encounter departure, I became Chair of the group in a Wing reference in your local record which is January 2014. Four years is a long time to lead not specifically citing the CD-ROM edition, I ask the committee, and with a change in my role you to use the Wing CD-ROM utility to verify at Middle Temple, I decided it was time to the accuracy of the Wing number, and then allow someone else to steer the committee change the citation in the 510 field to read, as and bring new ideas forward. an example: These four years have seen a huge growth in our online and social media presence, as well 510 4b |a Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), |c A1234 as a substantial uptake of our essay and Ollé awards. This has been hugely rewarding, as it And once you have done so, if the oversight shows how the group has been able to persists in the ESTC record, a message to the encourage and develop research in the field of ESTC in that regard would not go amiss. library and information history. We have also had very good success with our annual If anyone who has the responsibility for a conference, which I know will continue to grow collection of early printed books has under Jill Dye’s watchful eye. responded to this article with, 'ESTC/STAR web-matching? What’s that?' I would invite you What does the future hold for library and to explore the ESTC/NA Web matching page information history? Only time will tell, but I and documentation at the following link: for one believe that we will continue to see a slow but steady growth in research in the field http://estc.ucr.edu/EstcPassword.html as interest in the history of reading, knowledge management and the organisation of And if you then decide that you would like to information increases. The group’s continued contribute to the ESTC, do get in touch via this sponsorship in the form of awards and grants email address: [email protected]. will only help foster this growth.

DAVID STUMPP IS A FORMER CATALOGUER FOR THE ESTC AND I would like to say thank you to everyone for IS NOW BASED AT CHRIST CHURCH IN OXFORD, WHERE HE their support for these past four years, in WORKS AS AN ANTIQUARIAN CATALOGUER. particular all of the committee members with whom it was such a pleasure to work.

1 The same process was used for pre-1641 RENAE SATTERLEY IS LIBRARIAN AT MIDDLE TEMPLE AND WAS materials, using a hand-keyed, electronic edition UNTIL DECEMBER 2017 CHAIR OF THE LIBRARY AND of Pollard and Redgrave (STC). INFORMATION HISTORY GROUP. THIS ROLE WILL FROM JANUARY 2 The ESTC will soon be implementing new 2018 BE FILLED BY DAN GOODING, WHO WAS THE PUBLICITY software, one function of which will record such OFFICER FOR THE GROUP. SOPHIE DEFRANCE HAS BEEN ELECTED changes made over time. TO TAKE OVER HIS ROLE.

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HISTORIC LIBRARIES IN FOCUS fine art, as well as examples from the print collection. It was restored in 2011 with grants Armagh Robinson Library from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board – testament to Harry Carson, one of the governors of the the importance of the Library and Museum for Armagh Robinson Library, the oldest public the local community and their potential as a library in Northern Ireland, sheds light on this heritage attraction. Both the Library and No.5 library and some of its wonderful collections. This are graded 4* visitor attractions within article is based on a talk he gave to the Armagh Tourism, Northern Ireland’s Quality Assurance Rotary Club on 24 October 2017. Scheme.

The library – until recently known as the The core of the library collection is formed by Armagh Public Library – was founded in 1771 Archbishop Robinson’s seventeenth and by Richard Robinson eighteenth-century works on theology, (1708-1794), philosophy, literature, travel, history, medicine Archbishop of Armagh and law, but there are also seven incunabula from 1765. Based on and just over 300 manuscripts. In total, there his personal library are around 36,000 printed works, including and fine art collection, maps and atlases; 4,000 prints and engravings the library was from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries; formally established over 4,000 items of music from Armagh through an Act of Cathedral; and Parliament in 1773. over 8,000 items Fig. 1 Armagh Robinson Archbishop Robinson of archival Library (exterior). Reproduced not only provided a materials, by kind permission of the library for the people pamphlets and Governors and Guardians of periodicals, Armagh Robinson Library. of Armagh – supported by an including six endowment of land – but in his efforts to volumes of establish a university in the northern part of eighteenth-century newspapers the island of Ireland, he also founded the Fig. 2 Frontispiece of Jonathan Armagh Observatory in 1790. covering a ten-year Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, printed in Still housed in its original Grade A listed period. Alongside 1726. This first edition carries building (this equates to Grade I listing in the coins and medals, amendments made by Swift ready an eighteenth- for a later print run. Reproduced by English Heritage Register; ed.), built to a design kind permission of the Governors by Thomas Cooley, the Armagh Robinson century collection and Guardians of Armagh Robinson Library is now one of the three most important of around 4,000 Library. heritage libraries in Ireland, alongside Marsh’s gems and sulphurs Library and Trinity College Library in Dublin. In forms a more unusual element of the the spirit of Robinson’s intentions for Armagh, collection. A particular highlight in the the inscription over the entrance reads collection is Jonathan Swift’s annotated first ΨΥΧΗΕΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ (The healing edition of Gulliver’s travels. OVER THE place of the soul) (fig. 1). ENTRANCE A SIGN READS The library’s acquisition policy The associated museum at IN GREEK SCRIPT: THE HEALING is to collect items on local No. 5 Vicars’ Hill, part of a PLACE OF THE SOUL History (City and County); St terrace built by Robinson to house Patrick; Jonathan Swift; and the registry containing Church of Ireland and Church History (not exclusively Church of civil records, displays treasures from the Ireland). It also holds the archives of three library’s holdings of medals, coins, prehistoric former Archbishops of Armagh, namely and Irish archaeology, and eighteenth-century Beresford (1862-1885), Gregg (1939-1959) and Eames (1986-2006).

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The 1773 Act of Parliament specified the role The current exhibition features a selection of the library and its administration: like from the library’s holdings to mark the 400th Marsh’s library, the Act formalised the public anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. nature of the library and its financial position. Recently as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund In terms of custodianship, the Keeper was to sponsored ‘Transition Project’ the library be appointed by the Primate of All Ireland and received two new donation boxes, intended to augment the Library’s income. Finance remains a real concern.

However, thanks to the hard work of staff and volunteers, with the generous support of funders, the Armagh Robinson Library continues in the 21st century to provide for the health of our souls. Long may it last.

HARRY CARSON IS ONE OF THE GOVERNORS OF THE ARMAGH ROBINSON LIBRARY AND IS ALSO A LONG-SERVING VOLUNTEER.

Fig. 3 A drawer of gems from Archbishop The Armagh Robinson Library and No. 5 Vicars' Hill have Robinson’s gem collection. The gems or different opening hours and may be closed due to special sulphurs were designed and made by events or tours. Please check the website before making plans James Tassie. Reproduced by kind to visit: www.armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk permission of the Governors and Guardians of Armagh Robinson Library. to be provided with accommodation inside the library building. The Act also lays down the qualifications required by the Keeper and right from the beginning, Keepers have been ordained Ministers of the Church of Ireland, with a degree from one of the main universities. The Archbishop is automatically Chair of the library’s governors and guardians, consisting of the Dean and Chapter of Armagh Cathedral and two lay persons elected from the diocese of Armagh. However, these days the library is an independent charity and accredited museum, neither owned nor funded by the Church of Ireland or under the authority of its central institutions. Fig. 4 Armagh Robinson Library’s Long Room. Reproduced by kind permission of the Governors The library has been able to maintain its and Guardians of Armagh Robinson Library. independence due to Archbishop Robinson’s endowment of parcels of land in Armagh. Over the years, this has worked reasonably well, with leases from buildings built on this land providing the rental income to keep the library functioning. In the current economic climate, this is more of a challenge, particularly since Armagh’s economy has not been in good health. As part of a programme to attract more visitors, the library arranges tours, including for school groups, and exhibitions.

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NEWS (2017) by the American Library Association for their article 'The Value Proposition of the It may not have escaped your attention that Corporate Library, Past and Present' published CILIP is launching a new membership model in in Information & Culture: A Journal of History, 2018. This is part of a wider strategy to 51:2 (2016), pp. 192-225. increase the organisation's advocacy role and to play a more meaningful part in the The Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation professional lives of information specialists. Award was awarded to Margaret Yu-Yin Hung Last year also saw the launch of a revamped for her dissertation 'English Public Libraries, website as part of CILIP's rebranding exercise. 1919-1975: Vocation and Popularisation.' (http://www.cilip.org.uk/?page=newmembershiprates) *** *** Edward Reid-Smith is offering a small number Libraries: Culture, History and Society is the new of revised and reprinted (A4) copies of his PhD peer-reviewed journal issued by the ALA's thesis to UK libraries whose parent institution Library History Round Table. The contents of provide a Library and Information Studies the first two issues can be found on the LHRT's course. Awarded in 1997, Dr Reid-Smith's work website, which also contains further is available online (https://e- information on how to submit research publications.une.edu.au/vital/access/manager articles and evaluative reviews of books /Repository/une:6998), but it suffers from a (http://www.ala.org/rt/lhrt-journal). small number of minor flaws, including the omission of two lots of pages. He has updated the title to 'Public Libraries and the provision *** of adult educational services by local authorities in 19th century England'. The focus is mainly on lectures and classes provided by Committee changes public libraries, but there are some tables of book borrowing as well. The revised text will As you may have gathered we have had a few carry an Australian ISBN. changes on the committee recently. Renae Satterley stepped down as Chair at the end of 2017 and Monica Blake decided to hand over If any institutions are interested in receiving a her role as Conference Organiser to someone copy for free (including postage paid), please else. We thank both for their valuable contact Dr Reid-Smith directly on contribution to the work of the group over [email protected]. the past few years and wish them all the best. *** Their departure resulted in a slight reshuffle of existing committee members: Dan This year marks the 550th anniversary of Gooding has become the new Chair and Jill Johannes Gutenberg's death. The Espace Dye has taken over as Conference Organiser. Européen Gutenberg is calling on all We welcome Sophie Defrance, Rare Books institutions to celebrate his achievements Specialist at the University of Cambridge, as during this 'International Gutenberg Year'. This the new Publicity Officer and Gregory Toth, Head of Collections at the Wiener Library as intention of the organisers is to bring together the new Events Coordinator. all activities on a website (www.Gutenberg2018.eu). At the time of writing, the site had not been updated. The Facebook page seems more active: Another former committee member, Professor https://www.facebook.com/imprimeurs/. Alistair Black, together with his co-author Henry Gabb, was awarded the Jesse H. Shera *** Award for Distinguished Published Research

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The booksellers Tavistock Books, based in section of its iconic art nouveau library, Alameda, California, publish a regular blog, destroyed in a fire in 2014. Considered an which is well worth following. The latest architectural masterpiece by Charles Rennie instalment celebrates the not entirely Macintosh, the building will be restored as it unknown author J.R.R. Tolkien: would have looked upon completion in 1910. http://blog.tavbooks.com/?p=3127 The prototype is used to test design features and to understand the original construction *** techniques (https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/15/1628539 The Grolier Club will be undergoing a $4.6 8/glasgow-school-of-art-library-fire- million renovation in the coming year. Starting restoration-prototype) in February, the Club foresees minimal closure to its facilities, but there may be some restrictions on access at times. The works are scheduled for completion in early December and will be marked with an exhibition of a thousand years of French book arts.

Regular updates will be posted on their website, blog and social media accounts. See www.grolierclub.org for further information. *** Glasgow School of Art Library before the fire in A collaboration between Dr Giovanni Varelli, November 2014. Photo credit: Moqub via flickr.com Prof Christian Leitmeir, the Magdalen Choir led under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence. by Mr Mark Williams, the Dean of Divinity (the *** Revd Dr Jonathan Arnold), and the Library and Archives, in response to Magdalen College's Following from the success of last year's event, "Fragments of Note" exhibition resulted in this there will be another Rare Books Week in wonderful short film, entitled Singing the Edinburgh, to coincide with the Edinburgh collections. Book Fair on 23 and 24 March 2018. Details of events will become available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIIQbTsyjT http://www.rarebooksedinburgh.com/ Q&feature=youtu.be *** *** The Parker Library on the Web 2.0 has now More than 2,200 entries have now been added been launched, offering new features such as to the online catalogue of William Morris's as IIIF compatibility, user-based transcription library. This brings the catalogue close to the bubbles, a Mirador interface allowing final number of approximately 2,400 titles. comparison with other digitised resources, and an updated Zotero-linked bibliography The editors, Bill Peterson and Sylvia Holton accompanying each manuscript. The website Peterson, are keen to receive suggestions and will also be released under a Creative- feedback from readers. They can be reached Commons Non-Commercial Licence, meaning via their website: that all of the images provided on Parker https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com Library on the Web 2.0 will be free for *** download and personal study: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/ In September, the Glasgow School of Art unveiled a full-size prototype replica of a

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ECTURES EMINARS AND VENTS My illustrated lecture will highlight the life and L , S E the book collection of Lord George Douglas, a member of the Queensberry branch of a SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY family long active in Scottish life. I shall trace PART OF LIBRARIES Douglas’ education from school to his studies SPONSORED BY at the university of Glasgow, before he Organised by the Institute of THE LIHG travelled through part of Europe on an English studies educational grand tour. I shall then move on to Location: Warburg Institute, discuss the manuscript sources for the Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB reconstruction of his library and the problems Start time: 17:30 which they pose.

All are welcome. Tuesday 1 May 2018 Charlotte Howsam (Archaeology South-East, Seminar convenors: Giles Mandelbrote (Lambeth UCL): Book Fastenings and Furnishings: an Palace Library); Dr. Keith A. Manley (National Trust); Archaeology of Late Medieval Books. Dr. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute); Professor Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary). Jointly sponsored by Throughout the late medieval period, books the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of were an integral part of religious monastic life, Historical Research, the Warburg Institute, and the and yet such objects have received little Library & Information History Group of CILIP. attention from an analytical archaeological perspective, despite the significant quantity of metal book fittings recovered from English Tuesday 6 February 2018 monastic sites. This paper will demonstrate Peter Hoare (Salisbury): Sarum Old and New: a how the archaeological and historical study of Cathedral library in eleven centuries. this form of material culture can enhance our understanding of the wider social and cultural The Cathedral library at Salisbury, in Wiltshire, contexts of late medieval books. began at Old Sarum within 20 years of the Conquest and has an unbroken history ever Tuesday 5 June 2018 since, though its home has changed two or New Perspectives on Seventeenth-Century three times. Its early manuscripts include one Libraries. of the largest collections from the Norman period to survive in the possession of its Robyn Adams (Centre for Editing Lives & original owner. The early printed books derive Letters, UCL), `Donations to the Bodleian partly from the rich bequest in 1577 of Bishop Library in the Early Seventeenth Century’; Katie Edmund Geste, whose library was one of the Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians Library): biggest in Elizabethan England, and since then `Digging Deeper into the Marquis of the collections have been enlarged by several Dorchester's Library’; Jacqueline Glomski large donations, with a number of significant (Centre for Editing Lives & Letters, UCL), rarities (not only theological). The present `Religion and Libraries in the Seventeenth library building dates from the 15th century – Century’. with links to Oxford – but has also undergone changes over the years. Despite some earlier This seminar will showcase some recent periods of neglect the library is now in a good strands in research on library formation, both state and looks forward to the creation of an public and private, in the seventeenth century. on-line catalogue to make its treasures more These three short talks will deal with patterns widely known. of book selection and acquisition as revealed by individual practice and in seventeenth- Tuesday 6 March 2018 century theoretical writing on bibliography. W. A. Kelly (formerly National Library of Our presentations – designed to solicit Scotland): The Problem of Reconstructing a comments and questions from the audience – Seventeenth Century Scholarly Library: the Case will include discussion of the potential for of Lord George Douglas’s Collection. research on seventeenth-century libraries and the application of digital methods to this

9 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 41 Spring 2018 research. IMAGINING THE EXTRAORDINARY: CIENTIFIC LLUSTRATION FROM THE Venue: This meeting will take place in the S I Great Hall of Lambeth Palace. Joint meeting RENAISSANCE TO THE DIGITAL AGE with the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library. Thursday 15 March- Friday 16 March 2018 Those wishing to attend must send their Presented by the Rare Book and Special names in advance to Collections Division [email protected], or tel: 020 7898 1400, not later than Monday 4th June. Imagining the Extraordinary will explore how Admittance not before 5.15 p.m. via the main creative scientific illustration, often aided by gatehouse of Lambeth Palace. advances in technology, has extended the reach of human understanding about the There will be a reception afterwards to mark natural world. Knowledge about everything the tenth anniversary of the History of from the unimaginably large to the Libraries Seminar. inconceivably small was initially nurtured by *** the popularity and availability of the printed image during and after the Renaissance. In a IES ANNUAL LECTURE IN THE HISTORY similar spirit of discovery, modern scientists have harnessed digital visualization OF THE BOOK + KEEPSAKE PRINTING techniques to nurture contemplation on everything from coral migration to the human Thursday 1 February 2018 genome. 18:00 Lecture, 19:00 Keepsake Printing followed by a wine reception Exploring the longstanding relationship between science and illustration, Imagining Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, the the Extraordinary will bring together Gutenberg Bible, around 1455. Over 500 years historians, curators, artists, and librarians later, his invention still shapes how we fluent in the visual vocabulary of the communicate. But what did his press look like? Renaissance and early modern period with And how did it work? This event gives modern scientists, technologists, and artists participants the rare opportunity to learn how working in the same fields with new digital Alan May and Martin Andrews reverse- visualization tools. Scientific illustration engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s invention, provides a unique vantage from which to identify and discuss unifying concepts in and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to scientific discovery, such as evidence and print a take-away keepsake themselves on the proof, artistic collaboration, imagining the replica Gutenberg Press. Alan and Martin are unseen or the perplexing, and rendering world-leading experts in the history of printing images useful to multiple (and often skeptical) techniques. Their reconstruction of the audiences. It is our hope that this symposium Gutenberg Press pioneered research into will provide an opportunity to bring together mechanics of the press and methodologies the many voices that have long been involved based on reconstructions. Raphaële Mouren in condensing and animating the complexity of (Warburg) will respond. the natural world. Location: Library of Congress, Washington DC The event coincides with an exhibition of This event is free and open to the public. fifteenth-century books at Senate House Please sign up via Library. Together, they relaunch the IES Annual https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scientific- illustration-from-the-renaissance-to-the- Lecture in the History of the Book. digital-age-symposium-tickets-41123377128

Location: Senate House, London *** Free, but suggested donations of £10 to St Bride welcome. THE LYELL LECTURES 2018: BOOK OWNERSHIP IN STUART ENGLAND *** David Pearson is this year's Lyell Reader in

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Bibliography. All lectures take place in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library and start at BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, LONDON 17:00. Lectures are held at the Society of Antiquaries, Tuesday 24 April 2018 Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE. Setting the scene: Trends and patterns Tea is served from 17:00. Tuesday 20 February 2018 Thursday 26 April 2018 Time: 17:30 Books for use and books for show Isabelle Baudino: Imaging History in Eighteenth- Century Britain Tuesday 1 May 2018 This paper will consider the making of a sequence of 120 historical illustrations created by Samuel Women and books in the seventeenth century Wale for serialised pictorial histories and analyse what this iconographic corpus can tell us about Thursday 3 May 2018 Georgian historical imagination. Books for the common man Tuesday 20 March 2018 Tuesday 8 May 2018 Time: 17:30 Cultures of collecting in the seventeenth century Presidential Address Kristian Jensen: Provenance Research: Managing All lectures are free, but tickets needs to be Cultural Property booked through the Bodleian's online system, In recent years book historians have focused much accessible via more on provenance research. We have also seen https://tickets.ox.ac.uk/WebStore/shop/ViewIt an increasing awareness that public institutions ems.aspx?CG=bod&C=LecTalks manage cultural property of interest to groups who do not come from a book history background. This *** has led to significant amounts of provenance research being done in libraries around Europe, but often the two strands of provenance research EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY do not meet. This paper will outline some of the EVENTS work done on the provenance of books as part of cultural property management, and some of the Thursday 22 February 2018 issues around using it for book history research. Time: 18:00 Location: National Library of Scotland (Boardroom) Tuesday 17 April 2018 Professor Alistair Fowler Time: 17:30 The Mind of the Book: the History of Pictorial Title Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture Pages Alan Nelson: Humphrey Dyson's Broadsides: Royal Proclamations and Miscellanea, 1500–1632 Thursday 22 March 2018 Humphrey Dyson (1582–1633) is best known today Time: 17:45 Location: Quaker Meeting House for his collection of books, which, though Annual Business Meeting followed by dispersed, survive in many lib raries, and for his Edward Bayntun-Coward seven volumes of Elizabethan proclamations. To Bind or Not to Bind? The Preservation or Dyson's printed proclamations derive not only from Destruction of Books Elizabeth, however, but from all English monarchs from Henry VII to Charles I, including Jane, with Thursday 19 April 2018 multiple volumes not only for Elizabeth I, but for Time: 14:30 James I and Charles I. His miscellaneous Location: Edinburgh College of Art Board broadsides, including ballads, livery company Room, Evolution House documents, and legal announcements, range from Jane Furness Exploring Scottish, and Scotland Related, Art the early sixteenth century to 1632. Dyson's Books: A Hands-on Workshop collections of 'peticions of greivances & breifes of bills exhibited to the high Court of Parliament' from Thursday 24 May 2018 1621 and 1624 have recently been identified in Time: 17:45 Guildhall Library. Dyson's personal valuations of his Location: Quaker Meeting House collections and the subsequent history of his many Sally Evans volumes of broadsides shed interesting light on a Bookmongering as a Way of Life (By a Bookseller, highly specialized corner of the rare book market Bookbinder, Publisher, Librarian, and Poet over several centuries. ***

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Tuesday 15 May 2018 College history Time: 17:30 Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture Monday 7 May 2018 Kristine Rose Beers: Silk threads and chevron patterns: Exploring the materiality of the Islamic Dunstan Roberts (Cambridge) Lord Herbert of book Cherbury (1582-1648), his library, and his This paper will consider the parallels between bequest to Jesus College, Oxford Islamic bookbindings and their European contemporaries. Particular attention will be paid to Monday 21 May 2018 the transmission of technologies, and the evolution Lucy Razzall (Cambridge) "A boxe of balme full of a unique swete": books and boxes in early modern England binding tradition. *** Thursday 31 May 2018 Richard Gameson, Ralph Hanna, Peter Kidd OXFORD CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK: SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF and David Rundle: A round-table discussion of THE BOOK Oxford's medieval manuscripts, their catalogues and cataloguing, chaired by Prof. Time: Hilary Term, Fridays 14:15 Henry Woudhuysen Location: Weston Library, Visiting Scholars’ Centre (VSC) Wednesday 13 June 2018 2 February 2018 Christopher Edwards A bookseller's life Early modern publishing policies: Prof. Ian McKenna Room, Christ Church Maclean (All Souls College) Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, *** 1664-75 Thursday 22 February 2018 9 February 2018 The annual D.F. McKenzie Lecture Trade: Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Professor Stefan Collini (Cambridge) The idea Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in of "the reading public": literary history or cultural Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of criticism? Oxford) Merchants’ books of Venice and Florence 17:00, Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St 23 February 2018 Cross Building, Oxford Popular literature: Dr Laura Carnelos (Marie Curie Fellow, CERL and British Library) From *** ephemeral to rare: 16th-Century Italian Popular Books in the British and the Bodleian Libraries PARKER LIBRARY ON THE WEB SYMPOSIUM 2 March 2018 History of Art: Prof. Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley Friday 16 March 2018 College) The De Spira Brothers vs. Nicolaus Jenson, 1469-1472: A Rivalry Traced through Hand-illuminated Copies of their Editions To celebrate the launch of the Parker Library on the Web 2.0, Corpus Christi Cambridge is 9 March 2018 Digital Typography: Dr Falk Eisermann organising a one-day symposium to discuss (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, questions about the methodologies used in Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) “Did you mean the study of medieval manuscripts,how incurable?" Searching and Finding Incunabula in digitised surrogates and online tools influence the World Wide Web *** our understanding of material objects, book circulation, and textual transmission, and how OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY digital initiatives assist in the curation and MEETINGS preservation of physical collections. All meetings take place in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library unless stated otherwise and https://theparkerlibrary.wordpress.com/2017/ start at 17:15. 11/08/call-for-papers-parker-library-on-the- web-2-0/ Monday 5 March 2018 Robin Darwall-Smith (Oxford) The history of the

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CONFERENCES Call for Papers ANNUAL CONFERENCE PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: THE PEOPLE IN Call for Papers INDEPENDENT LIBRARIES THE ALLIES OF BOOKS: EEPERS URATORS OLLECTORS IN Friday 1 June – Sunday 3 June 2018 K , C & C Library of Innerpeffray, by Crieff, and the VICTORIAN BRITAIN Leighton Library, Dunblane Saturday 7 July 2018 The Independent Libraries Association’s St Bride Foundation, London annual conference continues the aim of bringing together those working in and around the independent library sector. 2017’s conference followed the theme of ‘collections’, the core of any library; but what are texts without their readers? In 2018 the conference will focus on people.

Proposals for 20-minute papers from anyone Photo credit: St Bride in the independent library movement are Foundation. welcome on the following themes: * Famous Founders and/or well-known readers * Increasing reader numbers and serving the CILIP’s Library and Information History Group community is delighted to announce that its next annual * Borrower records and histories conference will be held at the St Bride * Volunteers and their contributions Foundation, London, on Saturday 7 July 2018. * Crowd-sourced projects with students and Librarians, researchers and academics are the general public invited to submit proposals for 20-minute * Online communities and open-access papers on topics related to the theme of projects Keepers, Curators & Collectors in Victorian * Architectural design to promote access; Britain, including: * Free at the point of use? Membership and subscription schemes * History of Librarianship * Make do and mend: staffing an independent * Libraries as philanthropic/paternalistic library. ventures * Bibliographers and their libraries The organisers emphasise that papers do not * Any other aspect of library and information need to be scholarly. The Association is history in the Victorian era. committed to hearing a diversity of perspectives. Please submit a 300-word proposal and a short paragraph of biographical information to Submissions should be sent to Jill Dye and [email protected] by Friday 9 March 2018. Louisa Yates at [email protected] by 5pm on A full programme will be released when Friday 3rd February 2018. Please direct any booking opens in April. A bursary to support student attendance will also be made available. queries to this address. Further details will be added to our website as Further information: they are announced, or join us on Facebook https://www.independentlibraries.co.uk/annual- and Twitter to keep up to date. meeting

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Registration opens in February SHARP Conference RBMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE FROM FIRST TO LAST TEXTS, CREATORS, READERS, AGENTS , THE 26TH ANNUAL Tuesday 19 June - Friday 22 June 2018 CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE New Orleans HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING AND PUBLISHING This conference reflects the idea of convergences and speaks directly to our field’s Monday 9 July - Thursday 12 July 2018 preparedness for increasing environmental Western Sydney University vulnerabilities on our facilities, our readiness New South Wales, Australia for the inclusion of different people and cultures in what we collect, how we perform In 2018 this international book history outreach and programming, and who we conference will be held in the southern select to staff and lead our repositories, and, hemisphere for the first time. As SHARP moves finally, our willingness to democratize all of into its next 25 years, participants are our materials, including but not limited to rare encouraged to think creatively about how the books, archival and digital records, films, book has been an agent that both anchors maps, and photographs. cultural continuities and provokes changes in mentalities throughout human history; the http://conference.rbms.info/2018/ connectivity between oral / aural traditions *** and written cultures etc.; challenging assumptions about centre / periphery and THE ST ANDREWS BOOK CONFERENCE Anglo / Euro-centrisms in book history; and PRINT AND POWER states of the discipline which address book historiographical concerns and trends, but Thursday 21 June - Saturday 23 June 2018 also stimulate book history to become truly University of St Andrews adventurous and methodologically innovative.

In the early modern period print could make Further details: http://sharp2018.sydney/ or break power. While scholars have focussed mainly on efforts by authorities to restrict the *** circulation of printed texts, civic and ecclesiastical authorities recognised the Call for Papers potential as well as the dangers of this new BOOKS, READERS, AND READING: technology. Cardinal Raymond Peraudi fully CELEBRATING 250 YEARS OF THE LEEDS embraced the advantages offered by the new LIBRARY medium of print. On his fundraising campaign in the Holy Roman Empire he commissioned Thursday 20 September-Saturday 22 thousands of indulgence certificates and papal September 2018 bulls. Repression of print could be fierce but governments throughout Europe increasingly To celebrate its long and illustrious history, the recognized the power of print, and started Leeds Library is hosting an international using printed broadsheets to communicate conference on the history of books, readers decisions with their citizens. This conference and reading. will explore the multifaceted and changing relationships between power and print in the Proposals are invited for papers covering but early modern world. not limited to the following topics: http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/site/conference * The history of libraries * The history of books ***

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* The material production and culture of READINGS: READING JOURNALS International conference of the DFG Research books Unit “Journal Literature” (FOR 2288) * The history of reading and readers * Literary forms and genres Monday 17 September - Wednesday 19 * The future of the book and the library. September 2018 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany The international conference “Lektüreabbruch – Anschlußlektüren: Journale lesen” (“Interrupted Reading – Follow-on Readings: Reading Journals”) will take place from 17-19 September 2018 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. It will be organized by DFG Research Unit 2288, Journal Literature, in the framework of the programme priority “Coherence/interruption”. The aim of the conference is to examine journals of the 19th The Leeds Library. Photo credit: Michael D and early 20th century, taking the concrete Beckwith (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 materiality of the journal’s form of publication, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via and its potential to govern reception, as a Wikimedia Commons. methodological starting point. The specific temporality and materiality of journal Proposals of c. 300 words, word-processed literature governs processes of generation and and accompanied by a 50 word biography, superimposition of meaning, and both the should be submitted by Friday 16 February conditions and the consequences of these 2018 at processes will be explored. Areas of enquiry [email protected]. will therefore include materially offered reading paths and directions of reading, forms of reflection on journal mediality, and journal- Proposals for panels of three related papers specific logics of format and practices of are also accepted, with a designated chair. reception. Case studies are welcome, as are You will be informed whether your paper has historical and international comparisons, or been accepted by the end of March at the work in the area of comparative media latest. studies. More details can be found on the Leeds Presentations should be 25 minutes long. The Library website: conference languages will be English and https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/whats- on/250th-anniversary/conference/ German, but papers in French are also welcome. Travel and accommodation costs will *** be covered by the research unit organizing the conference. Applicants should send an CILIP's Rare Books and Special Collections abstract (maximum length 500 words) and a Group Annual Conference will be held at short CV (maximum length 150 words) to Downing College, Cambridge. This year's [email protected] by Monday 5 March theme will be 'The Library as Classroom'. No 2018. further details are yet known, so keep an eye on their social media and website for further Further information: information. https://journalliteratur.blogs.ruhr-uni- *** bochum.de/call-for-papers-lektuereabbruch- Call for papers anschlusslektueren-interrupted-reading- LEKTÜREABBRUCH – follow-on-readings/ ANSCHLUßLEKTÜREN: JOURNALE LESEN

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AWARDS AND BURSARIES EXHIBITIONS

LIBRARY HISTORY ESSAY AWARD VOYAGES: A JOURNEY IN BOOKS The Library and Information History Group's Until 30 April 2018 Library History Essay Award is an annual prize Monday to Friday 9:30-13:00 and 14:00-17:00 for the best essay on library history published by appointment in, or pertaining to, the British Isles, within the Eton College previous calendar year. Introduced in 1996, Free the award is organized and sponsored by the LIHG and aims to improve the quality and In the modern world, travel is a near universal increase the quantity of writing on library experience, and the theme of journeys, quests history in the British Isles. The prize in 2018 and travels pervades western literature and will be £350. history. With contemporary political events, the subject of migration is in the headlines, Essays should embody original historical alongside reminders of travel as a leisure, research on a significant subject, be based on educational and scientific activity. original source materials if possible, and use good composition and style. Essays showing This exhibition draws on Eton College Library’s evidence of methodological and holdings of manuscripts, printed books and historiographical innovation will be particularly literary archives alongside materials from the welcome. wider College Collections to explore historical travels through documentary and other An author may put himself/herself forward for evidence, and reflect on travel as a literary the prize but may submit only one essay per theme and an act of the mind and imagination year. In addition, any member of CILIP may as well as the body. Objects have been nominate a published essay for consideration. selected to suggest a wide range of ways to The closing date for the 2018 Library History think about travel and stimulate curiosity, Essay Award is Monday 30 April 2018. thought and connection: pilgrimage, roads, voyages of exploration and scientific discovery, The entries will be identified and judged by a grand tours and cultural travels, colonies and panel of three: empire, borders and bureaucracy, migration, word and image, factual and fictionalised Chair of the LIHG accounts, poetry. Awards Manager of the LIHG External assessor at the invitation of the LIHG Highlights include: a manuscript of the Committee Odyssey that belonged to the uncle of Amerigo Vespucci … a portolan chart … the If nominators or authors have any queries (e.g. voyages of James Cook … a model of the whether or not a particular essay is eligible for Beagle … a grand tour passport … the first the Library History Essay Award), please book printed in Antarctica … unpublished contact the Awards Manager, Dr Dorothy materials by the 20th-century Etonian explorer Clayton on 0161 638 6429 or Wilfred Thesiger … a travelling library. [email protected] To book, please contact [email protected] or 01753 370590.

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REPORTS some of Lister’s original carbolic spray, used to sterilise the environment of operating We have three reports this time. Dan Gooding, theatres. Unfortunately, the carbolic acid was our new chair, explores the wondrous history of initially used undiluted and surgeons would the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in often come out of theatre with red raw skin on Glasgow, while Dorothy Clayton reports on the their hands. The room also contains a portrait successful anniversary celebration of the Library of James Jeffray, an eighteenth-century & Information History Journal held on 21 Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University November. Finally, Mhairi Rutherford attended and an early inventor of the chainsaw. the Historic Libraries Forum conference in November with a LIHG bursary. She reports back Next we were taken on a useful day listening to papers on the future into the Princess of historic libraries. Alexandra Room, formerly the Faculty FROM CARBOLIC ACID TO AUDUBON'S Hall; named after BIRDS: A LIHG VISIT TO THE ROYAL Princess Alexandra, the COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, first royal patron of the GLASGOW college in 1960 and its first royal honorary The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Fellow, the portrait on in Glasgow was founded in 1559. Without a the end wall is on semi- permanent base for its first hundred years, the permanent loan from founders would meet instead in each other’s the P&O shipping houses or in nearby coffee shops. In 1697 the company. The opposite College started collecting books and finally wall bears a portrait of purchased its first building on the Trongate. Princess Diana, another After a move to St. Enoch Square in 1791, the royal patron, although Joseph Lister's carbolic acid College finally settled in its present location on this picture has proved spray in the Lister Room. St. Vincent Street, where the upper echelons of more controversial as Photo credit: Dan Gooding. Glasgow society were based, in 1862. The many have complained College is made up of four townhouses that it looks nothing like her! Most of the knocked together; the one we visited was built paintings on display in the College come either in 1820 and was formerly run as a primary from donors or the Glasgow Institute of Fine school by a local minister. At the time it would Arts. The College sponsors a prize at the have been possible to look across the city from Institute every year and subsequently gets first the first floor as far as the river Clyde, though refusal on buying their paintings. It was here in nowadays this view is blocked by the the Alexandra Room that Lister delivered his surrounding buildings. first lecture on antiseptic surgery, and so most of the anniversary celebrations will take place Our tour began in the Lister Room where the in this room. Other seminal events in Glasgow LIHG AGM and committee meeting had just medical history have also taken place here; taken place; originally the dining room of the after the first successful operation to remove a house, it was named after Joseph Lister, a brain tumour, it was in the Princess Alexandra pioneer of antiseptic surgery who worked at Room that the surgeon officially presented it the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and was a to his patient, a 14-year-old girl. member of the College. April 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Lister’s first published After this, we moved upstairs to the modern articles on antiseptic surgery in Lancet and the library, where the College’s main collection College plans a series of celebrations to was relocated in the 1960s, consisting of commemorate this important milestone. One mainly older runs of medical journals, medical of the display cabinets in the room houses registers and medical directories. On display

17 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 41 Spring 2018 here is one of two volumes of Audubon’s Birds committed alcoholic who spent a lot of his in America, bought by the College in 1838 for later life in hospital. Bellany continued to work £48 (about £3,000 in today’s money) and despite being laid up, managing to paint a self- currently valued at £1.5m. Nobody really portrait every day, and decided to give one of knows why the volumes were these paintings to the medical bought, as they have no team at Edinburgh Infirmary medical or biological who treated him, but with significance to either the nowhere for them to hang or College or the profession. store it, the picture ended up About a hundred years ago the at the College. The College books were kept out on public also currently has an artist-in- view downstairs, but soon residence who spends their began to show signs of wear time writing poetic responses The fireplace in College Hall - the company and tear, mainly from the pipe who built it later became a funeral director. to the works of Joseph Lister smokers who would linger Phone credit: Dan Gooding. as part of the planned near to them; now one volume celebrations. is kept upstairs in the library in a glass case, while the other volume is in the library’s store Our sincere thanks go to Andrew McAinsh, room. While other libraries in Scotland also Information Officer at the College for showing possess copies of Audubon, the College is the us around, and to the Royal College of only institution with a copy on permanent Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow for display. hosting our annual meeting.

The last stop of the tour was the College Hall, DAN GOODING IS LIBRARY ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF part of the extension built specifically for the ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL AND SINCE JANUARY 2018 THE CHAIR OF THE LIHG. College in 1893. The portraits on the walls are mostly of former presidents of the faculty, *** except for William McEwen (a Fellow of the College) and those of Peter Lowe, Robert FIFTY YEARS OF LIBRARY & Hamilton, and William Span, the founders of INFORMATION HISTORY SOCIETY 2017 the College. Having left for Europe in 1565 to train at the Academy in Paris, Lowe returned Library History, the precursor of Library & to Glasgow around 1598 with more knowledge Information History, was launched by the than most of his contemporaries, straddling Library Association’s Library History Group in the boundary between medicine and surgery. 1967. Its founding editor was Peter Hoare, Horrified at the state of the profession in his who steered the journal for eight years. Succeeding editors were Peter Morrish native Scotland, he got together with Hamilton (1976–1987); Keith Manley (1988–2003) and and Span to petition King James VI to grant a Alistair Black (2004–08). In 2009, the title Charter for an organisation which would changed to Library & Information History. This regulate medical and surgical practices in reflected an increasing interest in information Scotland. In addition to being an important history and mirrored the change in the group’s heritage space, College Hall is used as a venue name to Library and Information History for many different purposes (lunch had just Group in response to the merger of the finished there before we came in to look Library Association and the Institute of around), and it was also the first room in the Information Scientists in 2002 into CILIP College to be fitted with electric lighting. (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). Under its present title, the After the official tour ended, a few of us went journal has been edited by Toni Weller (2009–12), Mark Towsey (2013–16), and Peter up to the library store room. The first thing we Reid (2017–). saw on entering was a portrait of the artist John Bellany, the Scottish painter and To celebrate fifty years of the journal, the LIHG

18 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 41 Spring 2018 held a day-conference at CILIP’s headquarters discussion, both in a Q&A session after Graham’s in Ridgmount Street, followed by a reception keynote, and in the two Roundtable sessions which hosted by Maggs in their magnificent new followed. There were disturbing tales of the premises in Bedford Square. increasing absence of peer review, especially in online journals. Is there a future for the peer- Key note reviewed journal article?

Following a welcome from Renae Satterley, the * Open Access and the pros and cons. Is it a outgoing LIHG chair, Graham Jefcoate (LHG’s viable/practical option for our journal? secretary, 1990–1996) gave the keynote presentation, in which he considered * Huge challenges are faced by all journals surrounding the evolution of the information periodicals covering library and information landscape in the last 30 years. Remember that history; periodical literature as a source for a email came to Manchester University – the home of study of library and information history; and the first computer – only in 1997. Has LIHG kept up the acquisition of periodical literature as a with this revolution and information overload? subject for library and information history. He Should the offer to our members be ‘more peppered his presentation with personal and dynamic, more participatory and inclusive’? There pertinent examples from his own researches was discussion about how we should communicate and from his experiences at Nijmegen within and without LIHG. It could be said that we University Library (director, 2005–11), Berlin have mastered print, but are we utilising electronic State Library (director, 2002–03) and the and social media effectively? Interestingly, the British Library (Head of Early Printed majority of people who actively post on our Collections, 1997–2002). Facebook site are not members of LIHG.

Some of Graham’s headline thoughts Roundtable 1: Reflections (chaired by Alistair concerning the challenges faced by academic Black) journals in general, and those covering library and information history in particular: The journal’s editors reflected on their terms of office. All spoke with passion and some * Digitisation has helped enormously in amusing anecdotes were revealed. Peter researching this topic. Indeed, how valuable is Hoare brought along some early issues as research done before mass digitisation of props and spoke about his role as founder periodical literature, and do we need to re-visit editor. He explained how the LHG’s committee library historical research done before the 21st encouraged him to take the step of converting century? the LHG’s newsletter/brochure into a periodical, free to all members of the LHG. * Consider library and information history journals Most of the early articles were written by and editorial rigour and reliability. Note the co- practising librarians. operation between Cambridge University Press and Library & Information History contributors and Peter Morrish was unable to attend, but on the editors which resulted in the three-volume History fortieth anniversary of the journal, he wrote a of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (2006). The reflective piece which Alistair read excerpts General Editor of this project is, of course, Peter from. Peter described how during his twelve Hoare, our first editor. years as editor, his role was all embracing: he had no editorial help and there was no peer * We should not underestimate the value of ‘staff review of the articles. newsletters’ in researching periodical literature as a source for library history. An apt example is the Keith Manley gave a detailed and amusing staff newsletter of the Berlin State Library (July account of his fifteen-year period at the helm. 1940), which was full of patriotic fervour and talk of He introduced peer review, ‘but it was often German triumphs. me’; and he included reviews of library history theses, and of the Library Association’s * ‘Editorial rigour is more robust in periodicals than ‘umbrella’ conferences. The latter also in monographs.’ This proposition generated much provided papers for the journal. The

19 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 41 Spring 2018 introduction of the RAE (Research Assessment proceedings of young academics. Exercise) meant that the journal received more articles from academics in the UK and the USA Karen Attar, the journal’s Reviews Editor, (where there was a similar assessment described how her role has evolved from procedure). Keith described himself an publishing a few book reviews and ‘book lists’ ‘interventionist editor’. When Maney, a in 2011, to today, when the journal publishes commercial publisher, took over the fuller book reviews and extensive production of the Journal in 1998, it became a bibliographies on library history (compiled by periodical for institutions, and it ceased to be Katie Birkwood), and information history free to members of LHG. (compiled by Eric Howard).

Roundtable 2: Futures (chaired by John Crawford, chair of LIHG, 2000–07)

The panel was joined by Liz Colquhoun, publisher of the Library & Information Science portfolio at Taylor & Francis (T & F acquired Maney in 2015). Liz gave a resume of the journal’s history and took questions from the floor. In explaining why the journal was not categorised as a ‘History’ periodical, she said that categorisation is not rigid but functional; and the journal is marketed widely across the John Crawford chairs a Roundtable discussion. humanities and social sciences. Also in photograph: Margaret Hung, Mark Towsey, Peter Hoare, Alistair Black, Keith Manley, Liz Colquhoun. Photo credit: Dorothy All the editors agreed that at some point they Clayton had felt pressured, especially when the number of issues expanded. There was a Alistair Black, who was chair of IFLA when he general feeling that too much material may took over the editorship in 2004, deepened have been accepted at times. All believed peer the international content of the journal. He review was essential. described how there was no shortage of content and the journal moved from three to John Crawford reminded us of the two four issues annually. The proceedings of qualities required by a good editor: ‘Feet on conferences, including international the Ground’ and ‘Head in the Clouds’ (i.e. s/he conferences, were often published as discrete should be both practical and able to consider issues; and one conference provided the the wider view). content for three issues. Renae Satterley closed the conference and, on Toni Weller became editor of the newly-styled behalf of the LIHG committee, she thanked all Library & Information History in 2009, with the speakers and participants for their Alistair Black becoming the North American contributions. Thanks were also expressed to editor. Toni, the first academic historian to be Monica Blake for organising the day and to editor, believes the journal ‘evolved’ towards CILIP for providing accommodation. Most information history and the name change was people then walked the short distance to important. Marketing improved and Maney Maggs Bloomsbury where we had a very produced beautiful covers. pleasant Reception.

Mark Towsey, also an academic historian, has DOROTHY CLAYTON IS HONOURARY RESEARCH FELLOW AT a particular interest in the digital humanities. MANCHESTER AND AWARDS MANAGER OF THE LIHG He built up connections with a wide range of disciplines, publishing material on the social *** history of knowledge, professional issues, empire and gender. He promoted the work of PhD students and published conference

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KEEPING THE GLASS HALF-FULL: books to salvage or reacquire, often through the generosity of other institutions. The HISTORIC LIBRARIES FORUM tragedy has also ignited creative responses by CONFERENCE artists, musicians and became the focus of a PhD thesis; in the context of the art school the On 13 November 2017, the Historic Libraries fire has become a creative project. Forum met at Lambeth Palace for the occasion of their twenty-fifth anniversary. Speakers Alastair Fraser of Durham University were invited to present on the theme ‘Keeping presented on the little-known libraries of the Glass Half Full: Strategies for the Future’; a Ushaw College. Previously a Catholic clergy pertinent topic given the current climate of college, Alistair and his colleagues have spent cuts in the UK. the last six years cataloguing the collection. Alistair emphasised an Melinda Haunton began with a important theme of the paper advocating the benefits of conference, that thorough applying for Archive Service cataloguing is vital to know exactly Accreditation (ASA), an award what is in the library, and indeed offered by the National Archives, to celebrate its importance and which sets a standard for archive increase visibility. Libraries within management to improve the the library have been discovered, visibility and viability of UK as well as important collections of Archives. Melinda introduced a Jacobite material and clandestine key theme for strategies for the Catholic printing, which through future: visibility. The application cataloguing are becoming process presents an opportunity accessible to researchers. for archives to reflect on their objectives, aims, and policy and Alastair Fraser on the libraries held Lara Haggerty followed this up to assess where they are by Ushaw College. Photo credit: with a paper on ‘Managing with directing their energy. In this Mhairi Rutherford volunteers’ at Innerpeffray sense the application process Library, Scotland’s oldest, free itself if beneficial, and even a failed application lending library. She described the importance is useful as feedback is provided, which can of volunteers as ambassadors for the library help direct improvements. Accreditation is eager to fundraise and draw visitors, and the chance to celebrate the archive and brings the different skills and enthusiasm volunteers attention of the parent organisation in a bring, which create opportunities for the positive way, promoting the resources and library. Although she stressed that volunteers importance of the service. do not necessarily mean more time, as people are often eager to have a chat and tasks must In what could have been a rather sombre be found for those eager to be useful. paper, Duncan Chappell, librarian at the However she expressed that ‘with volunteers Glasgow School of Art, managed to find a the glass is overflowing’ as the future of the positive perspective on the fire which library is positively secured with the training of destroyed the Charles Rennie MacKintosh volunteers and young recruits. Library. Duncan emphasised the importance of complete cataloguing of collections and of having a departmental disaster plan; two Heather Jardine, a volunteer at St Bride’s, and preparations which enabled him and his a survivor of a library which has closed and colleagues to begin reconstructing and reopened, presented a paper entitled ‘Running rebuilding their much-loved library. The up the Down Escalator.’ Working in a library restoration of the library to its original 1909 which has had very little stability, she stressed state has given the library a new strategic the importance of ‘getting your foot on the focus, and with their good quality catalogues, next step of the escalator’ and celebrating the librarians have been able to prioritise

21 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 41 Spring 2018 small successes, as well as ensuring PRINTED RESOURCES improvements are sustainable. Central to continuing existence is the much-visited JOURNALS theme of visibility; in order to survive you must embed your library in the public 50th Anniversary Virtual Special Issue consciousness and make yourself Library & Information History indispensable to the community you serve. Free online access to articles selected from the Declan Kelly of the Church of England archives by former editors of the journal: presented the final paper ‘Jumping through http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/pgas/li Hoops – Planning a new home for Lambeth brary-information-history-50th-anniversary-vsi Palace Library,’ narrating the road to the new library. To achieve this goal, the library had to Articles make itself more visible by engaging with ‘the higher ups.’ By introducing the Archbishop to Denis F. Keeling, 'British public: library it, the library became an asset and came to be buildings 1850-1870' seen as important and relevant. This was the first step in convincing the parent organisation John R. Allred, 'The purpose of the public that a new library was required. Declan related library: the historical view' that going through the fundraising process was eye-opening and essential, especially to P. S. Morrish, 'John Willis Clark revisited: convince their parent organisation to fund the aspects of early modern library design' project. The new library will increase access for more people making Pamela Spence Richards, 'The quest for enemy the collection more scientific information 1939-1945: Information visible and bringing a history as part of library history' new vitality to the institution. P.S. Morrish, 'Domestic libraries: Victorian and Edwardian ideas and practice' During the conference I reflected Paul Sturges, 'The public library and its readers on the collection I 1850 – 1900' research, the Diocese of Brechin Library at Peter Jackaman, 'The library in Utopia: libraries Dundee University in 19th century alternative communities in Archive Services. It is Britain and America' brimming with Peter Hoare and Jill Dye potential, and I J. H. Bowman, 'Classification in British public celebrating the 25th realised that the key to libraries: A historical perspective' anniversary of the Historic unlocking it relies on Libraries Forum. Photo credit: me increasing its The Walking Librarian. Kathryn La Barre, 'The heritage of early FC in visibility by document reference retrieval systems, introducing senior staff to it, and making the 1920–1969' hidden treasures of the collection more visible through cataloguing, social media, and public Laura Skouvig, 'The construction of the engagement. working-class user: Danish free public libraries and the working classes, 1880–1920' MHAIRI RUTHERFORD IS A PHD STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF DUNDEE AND STIRLING RESEARCHING THE DIOCESAN LIBRARY Marek Sroka, ‘"Forsaken and Abandoned": The OF BRECHIN. SHE TWEETS AS @OLDBOOKSANDWINE AND CAN BE FOUND ON INSTAGRAM UNDER @BRECHIONCOLLECTION. Nationalization and Salvage of Deserted, Displaced, and Private Library Collections in

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Poland, 1945–1948' publishing in the first age of print (Library of the written word, 60: The handpress world, 45) Ellen Rubenstein, 'From social hygiene to Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-9004340305 consumer health: Libraries, health information and the American public from the late S. Powell, The Birgittines of Syon Abbey: nineteenth century to the 1980s' Preaching and print. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-2503532356. Jason Vance, 'Librarians as authors, editors, and self-publishers: The information culture of M. Purcell, The country house library. Yale the Kentucky Pack Horse Library scrapbooks University Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978- (1936–1943)' 0300227406

Simon Burrows, 'Locating the minister’s looted D. G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books: books: From provenance and library history to Reconstructing the library of a Cambridge Don the digital reconstruction of print culture' and Elizabethan bishop. London: Bibliographical Society, 2017. ISBN-13: 978- Brendan Luyt, 'The Makiling Echo: The multiple 0948170249 functions of a staff magazine in the American tropical empire of the twentieth century' N. Sharman, The Chicago conspiracy trial and the press. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Rebecca Bowd, 'Useful knowledge or polite ISBN-13: 978-1137573872 learning? A reappraisal of approaches to subscription library history' M. Towsey & K. B. Roberts (eds), Before the Public Library: Reading, community, and identity *** in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850. Leiden: Brill, 2017. ISBN13: 9789004348660; E-ISBN: Books 9789004348677

P. S. Belk, Empires of print: Adventure fiction in A. der Weduwen, Dutch and Flemish the magazines, 1899-1919. London: Routledge, newspapers of the seventeenth century, 1618- 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1472441140 1700. 2 vols. (Library of the written word, 58; The handpress world, 43). Leiden: Brill, 2017. C. P. Grossman, The history of the limited ISBN-13: 978-9004317314 editions club. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1584563655 ***

K. Hayes, George Washington: A life in books. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978- 0190456672

S. Husbands, The early Roxburghe Club: Book club pioneers and the advancement of English literature. New York: Anthem Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1783086900

C. Love-Rodgers, Given in good faith: Celebrating the Funk projects at New College Library, 2006- 2016. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2016.

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BACK MATTER

The LIHG newsletter is produced three times a year. It contains short articles, news items, exhibition and conference announcements, notices of awards and bursaries, and reports on conferences, exhibitions and site visits. We also highlight a selection of new publications.

We are always looking for feature articles in the field of library and information history; descriptions of little-known historic libraries; information about projects with a significant historical component; new resources (print and digital); news items; and calls for papers. We also welcome reports on conferences on any subject in library and information history and reviews of exhibitions. Recent graduates are invited to submit brief descriptions of their research projects.

Please contact the editor, Dr Danielle Westerhof at [email protected], if you would like to have news, events, exhibitions or calls for papers included in the newsletter. Proposals for feature articles (length of article max. 2000 words) and descriptions of graduate research projects (max. length 750 words) should be accompanied by short CV.

Deadlines for contributions:

7 May 2018 (Summer 2018) 3 September 2018 (Winter 2018) 17 December 2018 (Spring 2019)

Information about events, conferences and bursaries is also disseminated via the CILIP website (https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201304&id=690693) or follow us: @CILIP_LIHG https://www.facebook.com/groups/5645439476/

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