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Library and Information History Group Newsletter Library and Information History Group Newsletter Summer 2015 Weston Library, Oxford © John Cairns 1 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 A scientific book-collector: Robert Hooke’s auction catalogue online .......................................................... 4 The New New Bodleian: Weston Library Opening Weekend ........................................................................... 6 WHAT’S ON ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Courses, lectures and events ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Exhibitions ................................................................................................................................................................................ 16 NEWS ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 AWARDS AND OPPORTUNITIES ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Prizes Awarded................................................................................................................................................................ 19 Opportunities available ................................................................................................................................................ 19 CALLS FOR PAPERS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 LIHG 2015 Conference - Libraries and the Development of Professional Knowledge ............................. 20 NEW RESOURCES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23 Journals ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Monographs ............................................................................................................................................................................ 23 Online ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 27 HELP WANTED .......................................................................................................................................................................... 28 LIHG Newsletter Dates 2015 -2016 Copy Issue Winter 2015: 11 September Winter 2015: 25 September Spring 2016: 11 January Spring 2016: 22 January Copy should be sent to the newsletter editor: Anna James, Pusey House, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 2LB, [email protected] Series 4, no. 33 May 2015 ISSN 1744-3180 2 NEWS FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to the summer 2015 newsletter. As mentioned in the last issue, LIHG will be participating in the CILIP Conference 2015, with the theme of ‘Connect, Debate, Innovate’. Booking is open for the conference via their website: http://cilipconference2015.org.uk/ . LIHG will be sending Monica Blake as our committee representative and Holly Nicholas as the LIHG member representative. Holly was the winner of our travel bursary and will write up a report of the conference for the next newsletter. Unfortunately our attempts to organise a joint conference with the Association of Independent Libraries did not come to fruition, so we are organising a conference in Oxford on Saturday 19 September. The Call for Papers is on p.20. We realize that the deadline for the CFP is close to the publication date of the news- letter, so we will accept late proposals up to 29 June. We will be offering a student bursary to attend, in- cluding coverage of travel expenses up to £200. Full details are on our website. As you will see we had an excellent response to our annual essay prize. We hope to attract a similar num- ber of applicants this year. The deadline to apply is 30 September for papers published during 2014. For the remainder of the year there are two more research seminars and a repeat of the ‘Lost Libraries 2’ walk on 18 September (full details below). Peter Hoare and I will also be giving a short talk to the Danish Library History Association at CILIP on 5 June. We will write up a report of this visit for the next newsletter. The transition away from the old website ( lihg.org ) is now complete. We have decided not to retain that site as a blog and calendar, as stated in the previous email . As CILIP were unable to integrate our blog, we have created a new one at: www.ciliplihg.wordpress.com . We have brought over all of the ‘Library of the Month’ blog posts that Lydia Gibbs created. The committee will discuss how it wants to manage this blog at the July committee meeting and we will update our members once a decision has been made. In the meantime, if you would like to write a blog post about your library, please do get in touch. In April CILIP held another meeting for the ‘Member Network’ where it was confirmed that the revised rules for Regional Member Networks and Special Interest Groups were adopted by the CILIP Board, coming into effect on 1 April 2015. A copy of the Member Network Regulations can be downloaded at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/how-cilip-works/constitutional-documents. Just a reminder that CILIP, in collaboration with Maguire Training, provides a collection of over 100 short online video-based CPD modules. Every CILIP member gets one free credit, giving access to one module. Full information can be found at: http://cilip.maguiretraining.co.uk/ . Renae Satterley Middle Temple Library [email protected] LIHG DIARY 3 July: Committee meeting, Liverpool Friday 18 September: Lost libraries 2. See p.8 Saturday 19 September: Library and Information History Group conference Libraries and the Development of Professional Knowledge , Pusey House, Oxford. See p.20 Please email Erika Delbecque at [email protected] to reserve your place for LIHG events. 3 FEATURES A scientific book-collector: Robert Hooke’s auction catalogue online Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is probably best known to librarians for his most famous work, Micrographia , the world’s first fully-illustrated book of microscopy, printed in London in 1665. But in this 350 th anniver- sary year of Micrographia , another resource is now available which shows the depth of Hooke’s own in- terest in books and book-collecting. The website hookesbooks.com presents Hooke’s library catalogue for the first time in searchable format, along with a substantial introduction from the editors and further information about annotations and specific copies where available. The editors, William Poole, Felicity Henderson and Yelda Nasifoglu, hope that the site will not only be a source of information about Hooke’s reading and book-collecting, but will also encourage Robert Hooke’s library catalogue can now be searched librarians and others to identify further volumes online at hookesbooks.com. owned by Hooke. Robert Hooke was arguably Britain’s first professional scientist, employed by the Royal Society to demon- strate experiments at their weekly meetings. His surviving journals reveal an obsessively active life, as Hooke dashed around London between coffee houses, workshops, building sites, and meetings of the Roy- al Society in Gresham College. Hooke lived at the College for most of his life, in lodgings that doubled as his laboratory, observatory, repository, dormitory, and library. His friend John Aubrey remarked that Hooke was the greatest ‘mechanic’ of his age – meaning a man of technological knack, a maker of instruments and contrivances, an experimenter. And yet Hooke’s journals also show that he was very closely engaged with the book trade in later seventeenth-century London. He enquired after, borrowed, bought, lent, dis- cussed, copied, and reviewed books obsessively, and frequenting the bookshops and scouring the second- hand book market seem to have been Hooke’s chief source of pleasure apart from meeting friends at cof- fee-houses. Hooke maintained close relations with a string of London bookmen, including printers, pub- lishers, and sellers on the first- and second-hand markets. After Londoners discovered the device of the book auction, of which the first was held in 1676, Hooke became a devotee of this new means
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