Library and Information History Group Newsletter

Summer 2015

Weston Library, Oxford

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

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Series 4, no. 33 May 2015 ISSN 1744-3180

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 newsletter, so we will accept late proposals up to 29 June. We will be offering a student bursary to attend, including 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 number 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.

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 anniversary year of Micrographia , another resource is now available which shows the depth of Hooke’s own interest 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 coffee-houses. Hooke maintained close relations with a string of London bookmen, including printers, publishers, 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 of acquiring books, and it is thanks to Hooke that we know of several auctions of which no other record has survived. While Hooke’s journals provide fascinating insights into his acquisition methods and his personal associa- tions with booksellers and printers, the main source of information about Hooke’s library is his posthumous library catalogue. The catalogue, Bibliotheca Hookiana , was printed shortly after Hooke’s death in 1703 for an auction run by Edward Millington. It is the data transcribed from this catalogue that forms the database behind hookesbooks.com. The catalogue, unsurprisingly, shows Hooke’s library to have been very well stocked with contemporary scientific works, especially in the fields of mathematics, geometry, physics and astronomy, and with a strong showing from fellow Royal Society Fellows. But it also reminds us that the Fellows placed a good deal of emphasis on sifting through earlier scientific publications for useful information: Hooke owned a large number of books printed in the sixteenth century, and some earlier works including the Aldine edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus’s Astronomicorum libri octo (Venice, 1499), and Abū Maʿshar, Introductorium in astronomiam (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1489).

One of the things that makes Hooke such a fascinating case-study in seventeenth century bibliography though, is the fact that we have several other documentary sources that complement the Bibliotheca Hookiana . Obviously, a printed auction catalogue can only represent a snapshot of a library taken at a particular point in time. In the case of Hooke, though, we have the evidence from his journals to provide ac-

4 quisition dates for some of his volumes, and information about his use of his collection, whether his own reading and note-taking, or lending books to his associates. There is also a manuscript library list in Hooke’s own hand, now in the British Library’s Sloane collection. Headed ‘A Catalogue of the Books of R. H.’, the list contains about 470 titles and dates from around 1675. Interestingly, it lists a number of titles that do not appear in the Bibliotheca Hookiana , providing useful evidence for the evolution of Hooke’s collection. A next step in the hookesbooks.com project will be to incorporate information from these manuscript sources into the database so that a more complete picture of Hooke’s reading and book ownership over the course of his life can be built up. Other ancillary material has already been added to the website. More than ninety books previously owned by Hooke have been identified, and most of these are publicly available. A number of these volumes contain annotations and other traces of Hooke’s ownership which loosely fall into three groups: acquisition notes, inserted manuscript leaves, and marginal annotations. Hooke’s contemporaries commented on his habit of inserting sheets of notes into relevant volumes; some of these manuscript leaves were donated to the Royal Society having been discovered by purchasers at the auction, others are still with the printed book, either loose or bound in. Hooke’s habit of replacing missing leaves of text or diagrams with a manuscript version transcribed from another copy of the book is particularly interesting (see illustration).

A folio of geometric sketches, attributed to Hooke; the page reproduces the illustrations from Book 2 of Kepler’s Harmonices mundi (Linz, 1619). [Royal Society MS Cl.P/24/89, 317r. Image used with permission.]

All these bibliophilic activities were no doubt stimulated by the rise of book auctions in London from the mid-1670s onwards, and the site also hosts evidence of Hooke’s interest in these events. Annotated auction catalogues show that Hooke purchased a number of titles at the 1682 auction of the large library of Richard Smith, Secondary of the Poultry Compter. Hooke also bought 28 books at an auction organised by Moses Pitt in November 1678 – he carefully listed the authors and/or titles in his journal and it has been possible to identify these works by comparing these notes with the relevant printed catalogue. Hooke also left various manuscript lists of titles he hoped to purchase at auction, and these have been transcribed for the website. The editors hope that by creating a resource that draws on a range of evidence we can begin to build a much more complex picture of reading and book-ownership in the scientific world of Restoration London than has previously been available.

Felicity Henderson, William Poole, Yelda Nasifoglu

The New New Bodleian: Weston Library Opening Weekend

For a university traditionally associated with exclu- sivity and criticised for ‘elitism’, the public opening of the Weston Library on the 21st and 22nd of March 2015 marked a monumental change; public access into one of the Bodleian Libraries. Although members of the public aren’t able to enter the ac- tual reading rooms, a large exhibition space has been created which wowed members of the university and public alike, with many of the Bodlei- an’s treasures on show to highlight the impressive collections held by Oxford University.

The Weston Library, originally known as the New Bodleian, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and building commenced in the 1930s. The library was built as a result of Sir Arthur Ernest Cowley, Bodley's Librarian at the time, realising that the Old Library would eventually run out of space as collections expanded. The building was completed in 1940 although it was then almost immediately commandeered for use in the war effort, eventually being opened in 1946 by King George VI. From ‘Reaching out ’ to new audiences then on the New Bodleian remained more or less the same until the decision was made to redevelop the New Bodleian into the Weston Library, specifically to house the university’s ever expanding special collections. This means that special, purpose built storage areas with exactly the right conditions to keep rare material safe was developed and installed as well as an underground stack or ‘core’ which can resist fire for a few hours. It’s a very impressive feat of design and also, I’m sure, a real relief to academics and historians that many of the significant special collections are very much in safe hands being stored at the Weston. Development began in 2011, and the building, for a long time, was surrounded by an unforgettable fence displaying the alphabet, and each letter’s relation to an item from the Bodleian’s Special Collections. Four years later, in March 2015, the fencing came down and the new Weston Library was opened to the public for the first time, with a live band, award winning catering, a printing press demonstration and the ‘Marks of Genius’ exhibition providing entertainment and enlightenment to people from all over the world.

Many members of Bodleian Libraries’ staff volunteered to help ensure the event ran smoothly. I was there on the Sunday, managing the queue into the exhibition, which gave me a chance to speak to many people about the library. The responses were overwhelmingly positive. People who had lived in Oxford all their lives and never so much as had a peep behind the doors of a university building were startled and delight- ed by the treasures they were able to see, which included such rarities as a copy of the Magna Carta from 1217, the Bodleian’s First Folio (which is one of the only First Folios to retain original bindings and was almost snapped up by Henry Folger, before the Bodleian were able to crowdfund to buy it), an original dust jacket from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, portraits of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Franz Kafka’s Journal and a first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Tourists who happened upon the library by chance also felt very lucky to have been in the centre of Oxford that weekend. A number of people were even alumni, come to see how the ‘New Bod’ of their university days had been transformed into the Weston Library. The atmosphere was incredibly positive and it was really quite pleasant to be involved in an event which clearly made an impact on many people but especially local citizens who often feel excluded by the ‘town and gown’ divide.

‘A Particularly Pleasant Place to Stop’

People were amazed by the building. It has often been said that the design of the New Bodleian gave the impression of a building that did not want people to have access, the Weston now practically screams ‘welcome’ down Broad Street. The stairs outside the building are a particularly pleasant place to stop and sit a while, and are frequented by students and citizens alike, whilst the large entrances to the building suggest anything but ‘keep out’. Although parts of the building are still closed to the public, the comments I heard at the opening weekend from local Oxonians show that the Weston is a step toward diffusing the stereotype of the university as elitist.

The opening itself is likely to be an event remembered in Oxford’s long, rich history. The first person to step over the threshold on the Saturday – therefore officially the first member of the public in the building – was gifted a copy of the ‘Marks of Genius’ exhibition book and featured in the Oxford Mail, and special talks and tours were given throughout both Saturday and Sunday, including ones from Richard Ovenden, the current Bodley’s Librarian, and people working in the special collections team. The aforementioned printing press was set up to print a special ‘Weston Opening’ memorial print and was a huge success – especially amongst some of the younger attendees, whom it was incredibly nice to see not only getting excit- ed about being in a library, but quite willingly being in a library at a weekend.

That, perhaps, was what was most rewarding and exciting about the opening weekend. In today's society where libraries are shockingly undervalued and threatened by austerity, it was great to see so many people flocking into one at the weekend. Although academic libraries are better off than public libraries currently, perhaps the excitement of the Weston opening weekend will reinvigorate (or perhaps instil for the first time) a love of libraries in Oxford’s wider community as well as making Oxonians feel more welcome in the part of their city that they usually feel shut off from - and those things are almost certainly something to celebrate.

Sarah Arkle Graduate Trainee, English Faculty Library, Oxford

Images courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

WHAT’S ON Courses, lectures and events

Seminar on the History of Libraries

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); Keith Manley (National Trust); Simon Eliot (Insti- tute of English Studies);. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute); Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary).

June 2 Lambeth Palace, London William Hale (Cambridge University Library): `”Painters, limners, writers, and bookbinders”: Matthew Parker's printed books’. 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. Those wishing to attend should send their names in advance to Mary Comer ([email protected]; 020 7898 1263), by 29th May. Admittance not before 5.15 p.m. via the main gatehouse of Lambeth Palace.

‘Lost libraries 2’ 14 July 5:30 - 7:30 Meet at: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London £10 On this library history walk, hear a medley of tales about libraries built, libraries sold and libraries saved. From the shadows will emerge a fine supporting cast of booksellers, auctioneers, dealers, agents and librarians. Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) will guide you through the streets of Bloomsbury and Holborn. As you go, ghostly catalogues will be scanned, treasures found, inscriptions noted, bookplates added, shelves filled, cheques cashed, volumes cherished and books dispersed.

The evening will begin with a curator-led viewing of books once owned by the designer, craftsman, author and socialist William Morris. When much of Morris’s collection from Kelmscott House was sold at auction in 1898 over a third of the material was acquired by the Wellcome Library’s founder. Once William Morris and Henry Wellcome’s lives as book collectors have been introduced, it will be time to move outside. After strolling through three hundred years of library history, the walk ends near Fleet Street at approximately 7.30pm.

Numbers are limited to 25 people, and pre-booking is essential via http://goo.gl/N4a2ua .

CILIP Conference 2015 July 2-3 University of Liverpool £120-£310

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/

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

Participants may choose to attend 1, 2, or all 3 week-long workshops. 40 courses ranging from old favour- ites 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 unconfer- ences, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Throughout the institute, keynote lectures will be led by Malte Re- hbein (U Passau), David Hoover (NYU), Claire Warwick (UCL), and Constance Crompton (UBC Okanagan). http://dhsi.org/

Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Scientific and Medical Archives 2 June Kohn Centre, Royal Society, London £35 / £50

Presenters include Lauren Kassell (Pembroke, Cambridge), Richard Serjeantson (Trinity, Cambridge), Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln), Vera Keller (Oregon), Arnold Hunt (King's, London), Alison Walker (BL), Leigh Penman (Queensland), Victoria Sloyan (Wellcome Library), Elizabeth Yale (Iowa), and Michael Hunter (Birkbeck).

Inspired by calls for the wholesale reform of natural philosophy and schooled in humanist note-taking practices, early naturalists generated correspondence, reading notes, experimental and observational re- ports, and drafts of treatises intended for circulation in manuscript or further replication in print. In our own day, naturalists’ materials in archives, libraries, and private hands are now the foundation of a history of science that has taken a material turn towards paper, ink, pen, and filing systems as technologies of communication, information management, and knowledge production. But the posthumous fates of archives, though key to understanding their survival as historical sources and their past uses as scientific sources, have been less often explored. This conference analyses how disorderly collections of paper came to be 'the archives of the Scientific Revolution'; to what extent the histories unearthed serve as an index of the cultural position of scientific activity; exploring the posthumous scientific and medical archive also lets us consider the genealogies of scientific influence, and the creation and management of scientific genius as a posthumous project. https://royalsociety.org/events/2015/06/archival-afterlives/

Books and reading in an age of media overload : Publishing Studies conference 18-19 June Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy 200€ / 100€

This two-day conference brings together scholars from the field of publishing studies to examine key issues around the digital transformation of the book, as well as to discuss the developing field of publishing studies. Participants in By the Book2 are welcome from all over the world. Also invited are industry practition- ers who wish to contribute to the debates. This year there will be some accommodation available at the conference venue, the Villa Finaly, but equally delegates are free to make their own arrangements in the city. Delegates are responsible for their own travel arrangements. http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/conference/by_the_book2/

St Andrews Annual Book Conference ‘Buying and Selling’ Thursday 18-20 June

In 1472 the printers Sweynheym and Pannartz wrote a petition to Pope Sixtus IV: left with a large number of unsold printed books, they were now forced to ask for financial help or face utter failure. The advent of print changed the dynamics of supply and demand altogether. Some printers boomed while others quickly went bust. Pioneering merchants negotiated the book trade’s position within traditional labour market structures. Early printing entrepreneurial successes depended on the ability of printers and publishers to mould an author’s creation into a sellable article consumed by a wide community of readers. This conference will offer contributions on the theme of buying and selling in the early modern book trade: failures and successes of print ventures; strategies and ideas to increase the sales; rebinding, reprinting, reediting; cooperation and competition amongst booksellers; the day-to-day life of printing firms and bookshops; fairs and permanent markets; catalogues advertising stock and individual libraries being auctioned; taste and trends in the purchase of books; influence of censorship and regulations. http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/site/conference

Researching and Representing the Early Medieval: The Richard Hall Symposium 2015 20 June Kings Manor, York £20 / £25 including lunch

In 2014 the JORVIK Viking Centre marked three decades of welcoming visitors to the site of the Coppergate dig, an undertaking that revolutionised approaches to Viking-era England. But where does it stand in 2015? In what ways do current and future research opportunities threaten to overturn long-held notions surrounding the early medieval period, and how are the findings represented and manifested outside the research community? This conference will bring together heritage professionals and researchers in such related fields as archaeology and public history to explore a range of current themes in early medieval research, as well as the impacts of this research in the public sphere. Pre-booking essential: 01904 615505. http://jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/event/researching-and-representing-the-early-medieval-the-2015- richard-hall-symposium/

Photography in Print Photographic History Research Centre Annual International Conference 22-23 June Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University Leicester £20 / £70

The 2015 PHRC Annual International Conference will address the complex and wide range question of ‘photography in print.’ The conference aims to explore the functions, affects and dynamics of photographs on the printed page. Many of the engagements with photographs, both influential and banal, are through print, whether in newspapers, books, magazines or advertising. Photography in Print will consider what are the practices of production and consumption? What are the affects of design and materiality? And how does the photograph in print present a new dynamic of photography’s own temporal and spatial qualities? In addition, photography can be said to be ‘made’ through the printed page and ‘print communities’. Therefore, the conference will also explore what is the significance of photography’s own robust journal culture in the reproduction of photographic values. How has photographic history been delivered through the printed page? What are the specific discourses of photography in the print culture of disciplines as diverse as history and art history, science and technology? In this sense, Photography in Print continues the theme of previous PHRC conferences, which have explored photographic business practices and flows of photographic knowledge. https://photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-conference-2015/

Anglo-French Information Exchange in the Long Sixteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop 26 June 2015 IHR London

The sixteenth century represents a critical moment in the history of England’s complex relations with France. At the beginning of the century, only Calais remained of the once-extensive English possessions on the other side of the Channel. The early 1560s saw an intriguing new development as England gained important allies in France, the Huguenots. The reign of Elizabeth I was characterised by both the marriage negotiations between the Tudor Queen and the sons of Catherine de’ Medici and a somewhat problematic English interest in the French Civil Wars, an interest that reached through to the 1620s.

These political connections between England and France were mirrored by cultural links between the two countries, particularly in the area of non-literary exchange. Drawing on the recent scholarship in the field of both cultural and book history, this study day aims to investigate the various kinds of networks that were channelling information between France and England during the sixteenth century. Attention will be given not only to printing, but also to the circulation of information, intelligence and news in oral form and in manuscripts. By bringing together both emerging and established scholars interested in this research topic, this workshop aims to re-evaluate the importance of Anglo-French information networks during the long sixteenth century, and to identify future areas of collaboration and research. Organisers: Sara Barker (Leeds), Stefania Gargioni (Kent) & David Potter (Kent) https://anglofrenchnetworks.wordpress.com/

“Marginal Malone,” a symposium Yale History of the Book Program & Bodleian CSB Friday, June 26 Weston Library, Oxford Free, but registration required.

In 1936, the American student James Osborn scrupulously copied Edmond Malone's annotations into his own copy of the 1800 edition of the Works of John Dryden, gathering Malone's reading into his already extensive collection of English manuscripts. In the 1930s, as in the early nineteenth century, Malone's reading continued to define an understanding of evidence in English literary scholarship. This symposium examines the lives and afterlives of Malone's readings of English literature. It takes as particular focus the long influence of Malone's critical perspective on those who agreed and disagreed with him, both in his lifetime and in later generations of students and scholars. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/jun/marginal-malone

Modernist and early twentieth-century publishing houses 26 June University of Reading, Special Collections

Much scholarship has been undertaken in recent years on the “institutions”, producers, and material makers of literary modernism. Such work has aided our understanding of the cultural and textual production of modernist writing and has been particularly prominent with regards to the important role played by periodicals and small magazines. The Modernist Journals Project http://modjourn.org/ is one example among many of the dynamic research taking place in this area.

This one-day symposium, taking inspiration from such scholarship, will offer an opportunity to focus on the publishers and publishing houses who also helped to make and produce modernism. The day will offer an opportunity to explore some of the connections between these publishing houses and the writers, illustrators, press workers, managers and editors with whom they were associated. The day is being organised to coincide with the launch of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project which we hope, through working with other teams, to expand from the Hogarth Press as case study into the wider publishing landscape of the period. https://publishinghistory.wordpress.com/

The Shakespeare Saint-Omer Folio in Context 26-27 June Galerie des Tableaux, Hotel de ville de Saint-Omer, France Free, but booking essential

This internationally focused conference with papers in English and French includes the following seminars which may be of particular interest to LIHG members. J. Graffius (Stonyhurst College) The St-Omer First Folio: Drama for Poetry in an English Jesuit College L. Cottegnies and G. Venet (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle) The Saint-Omer Folio and Other English Books in the Saint-Omer Library J-C Mayer (CNRS & Universite Paul Valéry-Montpellier) & G. Venet (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle) Un First Folio de Shakespeare à Saint-Omer: La decouverte d’un livre iconique, & d’un exemplaire riche de mystere Richard Wilson (Kingston University) From France to England: Catholic Shakespeare and the French Re- sistance Brian Cummings (University of York) Shakespeare and the Religion of the Book

This event is organised by PRISMES, a research centre of University Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment (CNRS/University Paul Valery- Montpellier), and the French Shakespeare Society (SFS), with the financial support of the Communaute d’Agglomeration de Saint-Omer (CASO). Contacts: [email protected] , [email protected] , f.ducroquet@bibliotheque-agglo-stomer

Social networks 1450-1850: an interdisciplinary conference 16-17 July University of Sheffield

The conference is a two-day event, which brings together historically minded scholars with an interest in social networks from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to explore the concepts, methodologies, and findings of their research. Talks are divided between the themes of: exiles and refugees; cities and capital; no- bilities; life stages; knowledge; ego-centric networks; trade and industry; and religion. Contributions of particular interest to LIHG members include ‘Hans Sloane and the Huguenots’; ‘Literary networks in the Lon- don livery companies in the early modern period’, ‘Networks and knowledge in an early industrial district: the north Staffordshire potteries, 1750-1850’, ‘Networks of health and healing’, ‘French women writers in seventeenth-century England: personal and literary connections’, ‘Beyond geography: Ramusio and his social network’, ‘Women’s reputations and involvement in the Hartlib circle (c.1641-61). https://socialnetworksconference.wordpress.com/

Circulating Enlightenment: Negotiations of Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture in Britain 20-21 July Old College, Univeristy of Edinburgh

The Arts and Humanities Research Council and Royal Society of Edinburgh will host a colloquium on literary commerce at the University of Edinburgh. The past twenty years have witnessed the emergence of new resources and new perspectives on the literary culture of Enlightenment in Britain. Along with our interpretations of what it meant to be an author, reader, printer, and publisher, we are reflecting on the ways in which the arrival of new and powerful research tools have shifted our concerns—as readers, writers, teachers or researchers. This international colloquium will feature 13 distinguished scholars (including our own Mark Towsey) in eighteenth-century history, presenting new research on the material and cultural history of authorship and publishing. http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/literary- colloquium

Book Trade History in the Digital Age Print Networks Workshop 24 July Chetham’s Library, Manchester

One-day workshop on Book Trade History in the Digital Age to be held on 24 July 2015 at Chetham’s Li- brary, Manchester. Further information will appear at http://www.bookhistory.org.uk/print-networks

International Committee of the Historical Sciences 23-29 August Jinan, Shandong, China Ca. £180 registration

The Congress of the CISH, which takes place every five years, is the biggest world meeting of the international community of historians. The 22nd Congress will be held in Jinan (China). Topics include: Digital Turn in History; The History of Writing Practices and Scribal Culture; National Biographies; Researches on the History of World Exhibitions: Contributions to a Comparative Cultural History; The Use and Abuse of Histo- ry; Memory Wars: History Education between Politics, Scholarship, and the Media; National Identities and World Heritage; The great archives and libraries as sources for the History of Humanity.

As an Affiliated Organization of the International Committee on Historical Sciences, SHARP will be organising three sessions on Reading, Writing and the Book: New Histories during the conference under the head- ings: Portable books, travelling texts and entangled histories; Histories of Reading and Writing; L’histoire du livre et de l’édition dans une perspective transnationale. http://www.cish.org/EN/congres/index.html

Library History Seminar XIII: Libraries: Traditions and Innovations Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College, Boston 31 July – 2 August 2015 $75-$275

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 communities. 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. http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/lhs13/2015/04/15/33/

Creative Networks and Cultural Output: Contexts for Literary and Artistic Production 19-20 June Trinity College Dublin, School of English & Department of Economics

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. The keynote speaker will be William St Clair. www.networksandculture2015.com

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: annual conference: “Life and Death in the 19th -Century Press ” 10-11 July Ghent University, Belgium 100€ / 135€

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 ritu- als 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. http://www.RSVP2015.ugent.be

IFLA RBMS Satellite Conference Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: The Bleek-Lloyd Collection and Beyond. 14 August University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

This one-day IFLA 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. Discussion topics will include: challenges and opportunities of managing split collections and diverse locations; managing mixed-format collections; collaboration with a curatorial centre; digitization, crowd- sourcing; challenges associated with language, dialect, and notation; public outreach; and ways to stimu- late new research. A second day of tours will be organized during the congress week to relevant Cape Town repositories. http://www.ifla.org/node/9205

What do we lose when we lose a library? A conference about the future challenges of libraries 9 - 11 September KU Leuven, University Hall & University Library

To commemorate the centenary of the destruction of its 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. 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 awareness of the challenges libraries face in performing this task.

A General Session on the conference theme What do we lose when we lose a library? and two Special Ses- sions: Library & Heritage and Library & Digital Challenge [working Titles] will shed light on the vision and approach on the past and the future of libraries. The conference is addressed to librarians and scientists as pioneers of organizing cultural memory via expertise and knowledge. The meeting intends to raise public consciousness concerning this important task of sharing collective and cultural memory, and to raise awareness concerning the challenges libraries face in performing this task.

Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to 1900 10-11 September University of Edinburgh Organised by the Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh

As part of an ongoing initiative to map current research in British and Irish press history, this conference will provide a forum for the discussion of a broad range of thematic and methodological approaches to nineteenth-century journalism. It follows on from a similar conference held at Sheffield University’s Center for Journalism Studies in September 2014.

This conference, like its 2014 predecessor, aims to contribute to a planned series on British and Irish newspapers and periodicals commissioned by Edinburgh University Press under the general editorship of Pro- fessor Martin Conboy (Sheffield) and Professor David Finkelstein (Edinburgh). It provides a significant opportunity for scholars to develop work based on fresh research, including the various digital resources now available. Professor Aled Gruffydd Jones will be the keynote speaker. http://www.ccii.hss.ed.ac.uk/

Exhibitions

Ingenious Impressions: The Coming of the Book Closes 21 June University of Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery Admission free

The University of Glasgow holds the largest collection of incunabula in Scotland of which more than half come from the library of Hunterian founder Dr William Hunter (1718-83).

The invention of mechanical movable type printing revolutionised book making in Europe and was instrumental in the emergence of the Renaissance and the spread of learning more generally. Showcasing the University’s rich collections and the results of new research from the Glasgow Incunabula Project, this major exhibition charts the development of the early printed book in Europe, exploring the transition from manuscript to print and its impact on late medieval society.

Ingenious Impressions features a number of key themes, including the transition from scribal to print culture, the design, decoration and illustration of the earliest printed books, the technology and challenges of printing, and finally 500 years of book ownership and collecting.

The exhibition also features demonstrations on a replica 15th century printing press, on loan from the Uni- versity of Reading. http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/major%20exhibitions/ingeniousimpressions/

Publisher and plunderer?: Sir John Prise and the first Welsh books Closes 27 June National Library of Wales

Sir John Prise was one of Wales’ foremost Renaissance figures. He amassed a superb personal library of printed books and manuscripts, including the earliest manuscript in Welsh, the Black Book of Carmarthen. He also adopted new technology to publish the first Welsh printed book – Yny lhyvyr hwnn – in 1546.

This exhibition will look at the life and work of a remarkable “Tudor Man”, and will attempt to reconcile his cultural interests with his turbulent role of persecuting heretics, dissolving monasteries and pleasing his ruthless task-masters, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII. This will be a rare opportunity to view monastic plunder which fell into Prise’s hands, treasures which, for a while, will be released from their chains at Hereford Cathedral Library.

Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy Closes 1 September British Library £0-£13.50

One of the world’s most famous documents, Magna Carta has inspired some of today’s fundamental liber- ties. Yet it started as a practical solution to a political crisis 800 years ago. To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta the British Library is holding a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.

Since 1215, Magna Carta has evolved from a political agreement to an international symbol of freedom. Displayed together are the iconic documents and artefacts that tell the story of Magna Carta: two of the four original 1215 Magna Carta documents, Jefferson’s handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independ- ence and one of the original copies of the US Bill of Rights, both on display in the UK for the first time, together with stunning manuscripts, paintings, statues and royal relics.

The exhibition is at the heart of a wider Magna Carta programme, with 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?ns_campaign=magna-carta- exhibition&ns_mchannel=bl_website&ns_source=carousel&ns_linkname=magna-carta- exhibition_more_link&ns_fee=0#sthash.wZXMW59N.dpuf

A damned serious business: Waterloo 1815, the battle and its books Closes 16 September Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University Library

The importance of Waterloo was fully recognised by the generations which came after it. Both Byron and Tennyson described the battle as an ‘earthquake’. Victor Hugo called it ‘the hinge of the nineteenth century’: ‘On that day, the perspective of the human race was changed’. The medium of print—both letterpress and engraving—was instrumental in preparing soldiers, statesmen and the wider society for the gathering conflict; in spreading the news of the battle in its immediate aftermath; and in perpetuating the memory of Waterloo in visual and literary culture. ‘A damned serious business: Waterloo 1815, the battle and its books’ draws on the rich and varied collections of Cambridge University Library to highlight written records, maps and book arts relating to the battle and the era in which it played so decisive a part. Political broadsheets, military drill-books, manuscript letters, hand-coloured engravings, printed mementos, early historical accounts and tourist reminiscences, comic and elegiac poems, and a volume from Napoleon’s library in exile on St Helena are brought together to commemorate the most famous battle in modern Eu- ropean history.

Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Closes 20 September - Admission free Exhibition galleries, Weston Library, Oxford Free

In over four centuries the Bodleian Libraries have assembled, through gift and purchase, an unparalleled collection of books and manuscripts that can be called works of genius. From Shakespeare's First Folio to the Kennicott Bible, this show-stopping exhibition considers how common attitudes towards genius are manifested in the physical form of a number of remarkable books, maps and manuscripts held in the Li- braries' collections, and explores ways in which the works of genius found in a university library can be acquired, collected and read.

Talks and other connected events http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats- on?queries_eventtype_query=Free%20events

NEWS

William H. Scheide, has left his collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts with an esti- mated value of $300 million to Princeton University. The Scheide Library has been housed at Princeton since 1959. Although privately owned, the collection has been accessible to patrons of the University's library through Firestone's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The collection holds the first six printed editions of the Bible, the original printing of the Declaration of Independence; Beethoven's music sketchbook for 1815-16; Shakespeare's first, second, third and fourth folios; autograph music manuscripts of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner; a lengthy autograph speech by Abraham Lincoln from 1856 on the problems of slavery; and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's original letter and telegram copy books from the last weeks of the Civil War. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S42/38/60E50/index.xml?section=featured

A previously overlooked Magna Carta belonging to Sandwich Town Council has been discovered in the archives at Kent History and Library Centre (KHLC), in Maidstone. The discovery was made by KCC Communi- ty History Officer Dr Mark Bateson after leading Magna Carta academic historian Professor Nicholas Vin- cent contacted him to investigate a separate document in the archives – Sandwich’s original Charter of the Forest. Dr Bateson spotted the Magna Carta right next to the charter, and Prof. Vincent then authenticated this exciting discovery. http://www.freeview.co.uk/whats-on/tv-guide

Library of Congress to Approve Genre/Form Terms for Literary Works http://classificationweb.net/tentative-subjects/1515.html

UK: Intellectual Property Office publishes advice on exhibition of copyright protected works http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/uk-intellectual-property-office-publish-03043/

Bishopsgate Institute is a library, archive and cultural institution near Liverpool Street sta- tion in London. In 2014, the In- stitute celebrated its 120 th birthday. As part of the birthday celebrations, Mr Ronald William Heaton (Librari- an & Director of Bishopsgate Institute, 1894-1897) began sharing his day to day experi- ences on Twitter. Mr Heaton also posts historic images from ‘new’ acquisitions to the Insti- tute’s special collections. Follow @ronaldheaton to find out more about life behind the counter in a busy Victorian li- Mr Heaton requests your presence on Twitter brary. You can read more about his life and career at Image from Bishopsgate Library and Archive http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk /blogs_entry.aspx?id=98

AWARDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Prizes Awarded

Library History Essay Award 2014 The winner of the 1st prize of £200 (sponsored by Emerald Publishing) is Michael Riordan for his essay: "The King's Library of Manuscripts": The State Paper Office as Archive and Library', Information & Culture, 48.2 (2013), pp. 181–93. The winner of the 2nd prize of £100 (sponsored by LIHG) is Michelle Johansen for her essay: ‘“The Father and Mother of the Place”: Inhabiting London’s Public Libraries, 1885-1940’. Chapter 8, in Residential Insti- tutions in Britain, 1725–1970 (Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 125–39. We had a record number of entries for the Library History Essay Award 2014. It was a very hard decision for the judges to choose the winner. We are grateful to all those who allowed their essays to be nominated for the 2014 award.

Cilip Conference 2015 Bursary The LIHG bursary for the CILIP conference has been awarded to Holly Nicholas, who will be reporting on the event in the next newsletter.

Opportunities available

Library History Essay Award 2015 Deadline 30 September

The Library and Information History Group's Library History Essay Award is an annual prize for the best essay on library history published in, or pertaining to, the British Isles, within the previous calendar year. In- troduced in 1996, the award is organized and sponsored by the LIHG and aims to improve the quality and quantity of writing on library history in the British Isles. The prize in 2015 is £250.

Essays should embody original historical research on a significant subject, should be based on original source materials if possible and should use good composition and style. Essays showing evidence of methodological and historiographical innovation will be particularly welcome. An author may put himself / herself forward for the prize. In addition, any member of CILIP may nominate a published essay for consideration.

Nominations, including a PDF of the essay, should be sent to: [email protected]

If nominators or authors have any queries (e.g. whether or not a particular essay is eligible for the Library History Essay Award), please contact: Dr Dorothy Clayton, Awards Manager, Library and Information History Group, 0161 638 6429, doro- [email protected]

LIHG Conference 2015 Libraries and the Development of Professional Knowledge A student bursary to attend the conference will be available. Further details will be available on our website at http://www.cilip.org.uk/library-information-history-group/awards/bursaries

CALLS FOR PAPERS

LIHG 2015 Conference - Libraries and the Development of Professional Knowledge Saturday 19 September 2015 Pusey House, Oxford Deadline extended to 29 June

The 2015 Library and Information History Group conference will have the theme Libraries and the Devel- opment of Professional Knowledge and will be held at Pusey House in Oxford on Saturday 19 September 2015. This conference will consider the various ways in which libraries have served as generators of professional knowledge, and examine how they succeeded in doing so.

Papers are welcome on libraries from all periods. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • How did particular collections service the professional and scientific work of individuals and/or groups? • How did specialised libraries enable social mobility? • The idea of the scholar-librarian and librarians as generators of professional knowledge in their own right • The history of particular specialised professional and scientific libraries, both private and public • Collectors and the building up of libraries that facilitate the development of professional knowledge • The architecture and physical location of specialised libraries • Information management , cataloguing and retrieval practices in specialised libraries • The history of libraries for professional education, such as the Mechanics' libraries • Abstracts of no more than 400 words for individual 20 minute papers and a short biography of no more than 100 words of the speaker should be sent to Erika Delbecque ([email protected]). Proposals must be received by 29 June.

Image of ‘professional knowledge’ courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

A Sense of Wonder. Reading, Writing and Publishing Children’s Literature 12–13 November 2015 The University of Otago Centre for the Book Deadline: 3 August 2015

Abstracts are invited for twenty-minute presentations on any aspect of children’s literature, though pref- erence will be given to proposals focusing on the following themes:

• Collaboration (with illustrators, editors, publisher, marketers) • Relationship of form and content: picture book dualities and constructions of meaning • Role of didacticism in children’s publishing • Reception of particular works, both by critics and young readers • Transmission of children’s titles across time or space • Representations of trauma in children’s literature • Illustrations, binding and advertising of children’s books • Digital media and the future of children’s books

There are no chronological or geographical boundaries to the symposium’s topic. Abstracts of 250–300 words plus a brief biographical statement should be submitted to the conference organisers at [email protected]

Following the conference, papers will be eligible for consideration for publication in a special issue of Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand devoted to the symposium.

Further enquiries: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected]

Visual Print Culture in Europe: techniques, genres, imagery and markets in a comparative perspective 1500-1850 December 5-6, 2015 University of Warwick’s Palazzo and conference centre in Venice Deadline: 1 June

This conference will draw scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the methods, representational forms, and distribution of and audience for visual print media in Europe from 1500-1850. Its seeks to de- nationalize the study of visual print culture, and to explore the extent to which interactions between en- gravers and printers, artists and consumers in Europe, and a range of common representational practices produced a genuinely European visual print culture – with local modulations, but a common core.

Papers can draw on a range of disciplinary backgrounds to explore the exchange of techniques & processes, the analysis of imagery, and the identification of markets, and in analysing the conditions under which particular generic forms crossed or failed to cross national boundaries. The emphasis is on European visual print culture, the impact of that culture on, and its interaction with, the wider world is also of interest.

Proposals for papers should be submitted [email protected]

The conference may be able to provide some financial assistance to those whose home institutions are unable to support their attendance, especially postgraduate students.

Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland. School of Communications, Dublin City University, Centre for Media History, Aberystwyth, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, and the journal Media History . 6-7 July 2016 Dublin Deadline: 1 June

The relationship between Ireland and the rest of the British Isles has a long and complex history. One key dimension has been the connections and interactions between the various media of communication which have mediated this relationship. This conference seeks to address this important, but relatively ne- glected, topic at a timely moment in the history of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. The conference organisers want to take a long view as well as look in detail at particular moments. It therefore invites papers from the sixteenth century onwards, dealing with all forms of media (print, periodical, broadcasting, ephemera) as well as with structures of ownership, regulation, distribution and identity.

The conference will examine the different kinds of media interactions from the arrival of print to the emergence of broadcasting, under what conditions they operated and to what effect. How did these interactions take place? What were the networks through which material flowed? What were the major developments in the content and reception of the media from the 16th century onwards? How helpful is it to think in terms of ‘national’ media traditions? In what sense are concepts such as centre and periphery of value in thinking about these relationships, or do they need revision? How has the development of relationships between the peoples of these islands been influenced by shared histories of media exchange?

Proposals of up to 400 words stating the topic in relation to the conference theme should be sent to: Ste- ven Conlon: [email protected] . For further details contact Mark O’Brien [email protected] , Siân Nicholas [email protected] , Jamie Medhurst [email protected] , Tom O’Malley [email protected]

Texts in times of conflict 8 September 2015 De Montfort University, Leicester Deadline: 5 June

Reflecting on the seismic cultural and political shifts of his own time, Francis Bacon pinpointed 'printing, gunpowder, and the compass' as the technological drivers which had 'changed the appearance and state of the whole world'. Bacon's identification of communicative (print), violent (gunpowder) and technological (compass) forms of cultural expression and exchange as world-shaping continues to resonate, shaping the production and interpretation of texts. Keynote speakers: Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Prof. Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University).

We welcome papers of between 15 and 20 minutes' length on topics including but not limited to: • Textual and visual representations, interpretations of and responses to conflict • Adaptations which respond to past and/or present conflicts (including conflicts within academic disciplines) • Conflictual relationships between artistic, critical and intellectual movements • Processes and agents shaping the design, production, dissemination and consumption of texts • Theoretical and bibliographical methodologies • Intellectual conflicts surrounding the emergence of new media and technologies • Competing/contradictory representations of conflict through identical or different forms • State involvement in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts in times of conflict • The evolution of media forms and their impact on conflict-based studies Proposals of up to 250 words should be submitted online at https://gradcats.wordpress.com/call-for- papers/ or email them to [email protected] . Bursaries are available. See https://gradcats.wordpress.com/ for details.

NEW RESOURCES Journals

Library & Information History Volume: 31, Number: 2 (May 2015) http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/lbh/31/2 Edward Potten: Beyond Bibliophilia: Contextualizing Private Libraries in the Nineteenth Century Briony Aitchison, Peter H. Reid: ‘The owner of one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in Scot- land’: David Hay Fleming as Book Collector Dunstan Roberts: ‘Abundantly replenisht with Books of his own purchasing and choyce’: Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Library at Montgomery Castle Reviews & Bibliography

Titivillus http://www.titivillus.es/ Titivillus is a new interdisciplinary Spanish scholarly journal devoted to written and print culture and published by the University of Zaragoza. Published annually, it is dedicated to the publication of research on information history in all aspects: historical, material, artistic, bibliographic, or typographical, and will cover library management, books as property, and book owners. Titivillus intends to serve as a vehicle for transmission of knowledge to the information research community and is interested in any of the multiple aspects related to the world of manuscripts and printed material.

Catalogue & Index http://www.cilip.org.uk/cataloguing-and-indexing-group/catalogue-index The June issue (179) has a focus on rare books cataloguing, and will include features on historic libraries and collections.

Monographs

Greg Barnhisel Cold War Modernists: Art, literature and American Cultural Diplomacy (Columbia University Press, 2015) ebook The book describes how official and unofficial American cultural diplomats used modernist art and literature as pro-U.S. propaganda in the early Cold War, and book historians may find the detailed analysis of the government book programs and the literary magazines Encounter and Perspectives USA to be of particular interest. Columbia University Press is offering a 30% discount for those who order online when you enter the code BARCOL at checkout.

Alice Crawford (ed.) The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2015) 978-0691166391 From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. Generously illustrated, The Meaning of the Library examines this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors present a cultural history of the library. A landmark collection, The Meaning of the Library addresses the significance of the library—both physical and virtual—in the past and present, and will appeal to readers, librarians, and all who are interested in this vital institution’s heritage and ongoing legacy.

Katherine D. Harris Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823–1835 (Ohio University Press, 2015) 978-0821421369 $56 Initially published in diminutive, decoratively bound volumes filled with engravings of popularly recognized artwork and “sentimental” poetry and prose, annuals attracted a primarily middle-class female readership. Selling more than 100,000 copies during each festive season, the annuals were accused of causing an “un- masculine and unbawdy age” that lasted through 1860 and lingered in derivative forms until the early twentieth century. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and its origins in other English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture.

Stephen Hebron, Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2015) 978-1851244034 £40 / £25 Marks of Genius pays tribute to some of the most remarkable testaments to genius throughout human history, from ancient texts on papyrus and the extraordinary medieval manuscript The Douce Apocalypse to the renowned children's work The Wind in the Willows. Bringing together some of the most impressive treasures from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries, it tells the story of the creation of each work and its afterlife, offering insight into the breadth and depth of its influence as well as its power to fascinate.

M.E.J. Hughes The Pepys Library: And the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Cambridge (London: Scala, 2015) 978-1857599534 Samuel Pepys's Library was willed by him to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and early printed books by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde; a na- val collection, reflecting Pepys's role as Secretary to the Admiralty; works by Pepys's contemporaries and members of the Royal Society, including Newton's Principia Mathematica; and an unrivalled array of ephemera - letters, playbills and invitations.

Alongside the Pepys Library, Magdalene has an impressive historic collection, housed in the beautiful Old Library rooms. Evolving from a series of major benefactions to the college across nearly 500 years, com- bined with the books routinely acquired for the use of students and scholars in the past, the Old Library contains medieval manuscripts, incunabula, prints and papers, as well as the ancient records of the college.

Matthew S. Hedstrom The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twenti- eth Century (OUP USA; Reprint edition 2015) 978-0190231231 Hedstrom attends especially to the critically important yet little-studied arena of religious book culture- particularly the religious middlebrow of mid-century-as the site where religious liberalism was most effectively popularized. By looking at book weeks, book clubs, public libraries, new publishing enterprises, key authors and bestsellers, wartime reading programs, and fan mail, among other sources, Hedstrom is able to provide a rich, on-the-ground account of the men, women, and organizations that drove religious liberalism's cultural rise in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Critically, by the post-WWII period the religious middlebrow had expanded beyond its Protestant roots, using mystical and psychological spirituality as a plat- form for interreligious exchange. This compelling history of religion and book culture not only shows how reading and book buying were critical twentieth-century religious practices, but also provides a model for thinking about the relationship of religion to consumer culture more broadly. In this way, The Rise of Liber- al Religion offers both innovative cultural history and new ways of seeing the imprint of liberal religion in our own times.

James E. Kelly Treasures of Ushaw College: Durham's Hidden Gem (London: Scala 2015) 978-1857599343 Ushaw College was founded over 200 years ago just outside the historic city of Durham to educate students for the Catholic priesthood. It can trace its origins back to the exile of university professors at the time of the English Reformation in the sixteenth century, who went on to found a college at Douai, north- ern France. In addition to its splendid architecture, the college's library and archival holdings contain a wealth of rare and unique items, including St Cuthbert's ring, Thomas Cranmer's personal copy of two Lu- theran works and a first edition of the Cabinet du Roi. Treasures of Ushaw College presents more than 45 highlights from these collections, written by leading experts, as well as accounts of the college's history and the architectural development of the site.

R. Luís, L. Soutelo, CL Silva, A revolução de 1974-75: repercussão na imprensa internacional e memória(s) (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2014) 978-9899899803 This volume was the result of the 2012 seminar "Visions of the Revolution: The Press in Portugal, Spain and Brazil" organized under the Global History Group activity of Labour and Social Conflicts. The seminar sought to understand the written word and media in general, as a historiographical object in itself and not just as a source. The press acts as a space for social relations, giving voice to certain subjects and avoiding others. Being part of a hegemonic apparatus, it acts in its dual dimension: the formation of consensus on certain ideas; but also the active support of repressive and coercive measures. It not only manipulates public opinion, but provides means to establish consensus, often reinforcing an existing logic of class dom- ination.

Nancy Moses Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures (AltaMira Press,U.S. 2015) 978-0759121928 Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. Along the way author and reader encounter a cast of fascinating characters from the underbelly of the cultural world: unscrupulous grave robbers, sinister middlemen, ruthless art dealers, venal Nazis, canny law- yers, valiant academics, unstoppable investigative reporters, unwitting curators, and dedicated government officials. Stories include Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1, the typeset manuscript for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, a ceremonial Ghost Dance short from the massacre at Wounded Knee, the theft of 4,800 historical audio discs by a top official at the National Archives, a missing original copy of The Bill of Rights, the mummy of Ramses I, and an ancient treasure from Iraq. While each story is fascinating in and of itself, together they address one of the hottest issues in the museum world: how to deal with the millions of items that have breaks in the chain of ownership, suspicious ownership records, or no prove- nance at all. The issue of ownership touches on professional practices, international protocols, and national laws. The illicit trade in antiquities and cultural items generates as much as $4 billion to $8 billion a year.

Mark Nicholls & Kathryn McKee The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge (London: Third Millennium Information, 2015) 978-1906507985 Many of the libraries of the ancient colleges of Cambridge and Oxford boast remarkable collections of historic manuscripts, printed books and even non-book artifacts, making them effectively working museums in their own right. Among them St John's College, Cambridge, has one of the finest of all - including Lady Margaret Beaufort's exquisite 15th-century Book of Hours, a copy of Ovid's works formerly owned by the Medicis, Victor Hugo's notebooks, Cecil Beaton's papers and Samuel Butler's photographs of London street scenes. For this richly illustrated volume the treasures of the library have been newly photographed in the finest detail. Fifty of them are featured here, each with expert commentary by a leading academic authority. The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge makes many of these historic items available to a general readership for the very first time and is essential reading for anybody interested in the history, the development and the art of the book.

James Raven Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House (London: Palgrave Pivot, 2015) 978-1137520760 In seven provocative essays by historians, curators and architects, this volume invites us to question the nature of our interest in country houses. Over twelve hundred English, four hundred Scottish and three hundred Irish country houses (or about a sixth of the total) were demolished during the twentieth century. This book's essays debate the loss of these mansions from several perspectives: historical, archaeological, architectural and literary. The volume debates the 'heritage' challenge in rescuing and interpreting the sites and material presence of destroyed mansions and offers some incisive ideas about the process of breathing new life into 'lost' mansions.

Kristel Smentek Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Studies in Art Historiography) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) 978-1472438027 Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiq- uity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette's career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues' practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists.

Kate Theimer ed. Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections (Lanham M.D.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) 978-1442249523 Educational Programs explores how archivists and special collections librarians in organizations of different sizes and types have created effective educational programs to prepare the next generation of researchers and advocates for archives. Case studies show a range of audiences and strategies, selected to demon- strate ideas that could be transferred into other settings. This volume will be useful to those working in archives and special collections as well as other cultural heritage organizations, and provides ideas ranging from those that require long-term planning and coordination to ones that could be more quickly imple- mented. The chapters also provide students and educators in archives, library, and public history graduate programs a resource for understanding the varieties of issues related to creating and implementing educational programs and how they can be addressed.

W.A. Wiegand, M. Dalbello, P.S. Mitchell A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures (Westport C.T.: Libraries Unlimited Inc, 2015) 978-1610690997 This groundbreaking collection of essays presents the history of modern librarianship in the context of recent developments of the library institution, professionalization of librarianship, and innovation through information technology. Organized by region, the book addresses the widely recognized, international impact of Anglo-American librarianship and its continuing influence over the past century, combining critical analysis with chronological histories of modern librarianship in Europe, North America, Australia/New Zea- land, and Africa. An introductory chapter explains the origins of the project, and a concluding chapter examines the effects of digitization on modern librarianship in the 21st century.

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The HathiTrust Research Center has released an Extracted Features Dataset (v.0.2), derived from 4.8 million public domain volumes, totalling over 1.8 billion pages currently available in the HathiTrust Digital Li- brary collection. The dataset includes over 734 billion words, dozens of languages, and spans multiple centuries. These features allow for analysis of large worksets of volumes in the HathiTrust public domain collection, at scales previously intractable for most individual researchers. For example, page-level token (word) counts, can be used to help build topic models, classifications and perform other text analytics. The entire dataset, as well as sample subsets and custom worksets, are available at: https://sharc.hathitrust.org/features

From the blogosphere:

Bombs on Books: German Books Lost in WWII http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/blog/bombs-books-german-books-lost-wwii

Doves Press Type: The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery http://gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-typeface-that-drove-men-mad-and-sparked-a-1686081182

Borrowing books before Opacs at Westminster libraries https://wcclibraries.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/it-was-a-library-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/

Harvard Call Number History https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2JR2I7GnkyKekhCdmJHVEJYVTA/view

From the media:

Guardian (25/2/15) Henry VIII's evidence to support break with Rome turns up in Cornish library http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/25/henry-viiis-evidence-to-support-break-with-rome- turns-up-in-cornish-library

Guardian (26/2/15) Isis destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/26/isis-destroys-thousands-books-libraries

Yahoo News (6/3/15) IS group erasing history, culture in Syria, Iraq By ZEINA KARAM (Associated Press) https://uk.news.yahoo.com/group-erasing-history-culture-syria-iraq-154715463.html

Guardian (10/4/15) National library to show 500-year-old illuminated manuscript for first time http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/10/national-library-to-show-500-year-old-illuminated- manuscript-for-first-time

Telegraph (5/5/15) Pristine 9th century gospel, oldest of its kind in private hands, to be sold for up to £10m http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11581810/Pristine-9th-century-gospel-oldest-of-its-kind-in- private-hands-to-be-sold-for-up-to-10m.html

HELP WANTED

Who’s Who in Archives Globally http://www.library.illinois.edu/ica-suv/BioSite.php is a new website of short biographies of individuals who have substantially advanced the archival field in theoretical and practical ways. The first set of biographies is now online, and the Editorial Board is asking interested parties to submit proposals for additional biographic entries. The archivist may still be alive, but may not be self- suggested. Submission guidelines can be seen at http://www.library.illinois.edu/ica-suv/Who%27s-Who- instructions.pdf For questions, please write to the editor (subject line: Who's Who in Archives Globally): Dr. Susanne Be- lovari [email protected]

The Bodleian's Bibliography Room is under threat due to a management decision which will see the space it occupies reduced to less than 70 square metres (it needs a minimum of 100 square metres to continue operating at its present level). Some of the presses and equipment will need to be re-homed as a result. Another threat is the lack of adequate staffing of the workshop. The current (voluntary) superintendent, Dr Paul Nash, has decided to resign his post after overseeing the workshop for ten years. Alternative arrangements for staffing have not yet been made. These changes to the Bibliography Room will mean that much of the important teaching and public-engagement work which Paul has built up will have to be cur- tailed. This is the wrong time for the Bodleian to be down-scaling the Bibliography Room. With the opening of the Weston Library the Bodleian has the potential to be the greatest special collections library in the world. The lack of commitment on behalf of the management is distressing and lacking in fore-sight. A Fa- cebook page has been set up in support of the Bibliography Room, and people are invited to add their comments to the timeline (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bibliography-Room-Hand-Printing-at-the- Bodleian/820837611285973 ). A petition will be advertised on the page as soon as it is online. Elizabeth Adams, Librarian, University College Oxford; Newsletter Editor, Oxford Guild of Printers and Vic- toria Stevens, committee member, Oxford Conservators' Group

Ed Patrick, CILIP's Online Information Manager would like to include more library history related articles on the CILIP blog . He says: "We’re always looking for new writers and subjects… We’d be particularly keen on any subject that has a clear link to current affairs/news in Britain or internationally."