Series 4, no. 42 Summer 2018

ISSN 1744-3180

NEWS FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the second Library & Information History Group newsletter of 2018, which hopefully will bring with it some more summer-like weather. While our previous newsletter heralded the arrival of some new members to the LIHG Committee, this time I am pleased to announce that from September 2018, Jill Dye will be joining Professor Peter Reid as joint editor of the LIHG Journal. We look forward to seeing what new developments will come out of this partnership.

In this issue, Rosie Al-Mulla shares with us the Campbelltown Library exterior. Donald MacDonald / The old progress on cataloguing the Peter Mackay Library and Museum, Campbeltown / CC BY-SA 2.0 archive at Stirling, whilst LIHG stalwart John Crawford adds to our knowledge of early library management systems. There is news of our recent and upcoming bursaries, as well as of a selection of events, conferences and exhibitions. CONTENTS Don’t forget that booking is still open for this year’s LIHG conference, “The Allies of Books: FEATURE ARTICLE: PETER MACKAY ARCHIVE P. 2 Keepers, Curators & Collectors in Victorian FURTHER NOTE ON EARLY LMSS P. 6 Britain”, to be held at the St. Bride’s NEWS P. 9 Foundation in London on Saturday 7 July, and LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS P. 11 it is looking to be one of our best yet. CONFERENCES P. 15 Delegates will also have an opportunity to go AWARDS AND BURSARIES P. 20 on tours of either the St Bride’s Foundation EXHIBITIONS P. 21 or Middle Temple Library on the Friday. PRINTED RESOURCES P. 23 Details of our conference and the tours can be found on p.XX or online via our website. BACK MATTER P. 24

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FEATURE ARTICLE We Have Tomorrow (2008) that ‘one hopes that Peter’s own papers will become available’.

UNKNOWN HERO NO MORE: PETER These papers provide a comprehensive record MACKAY'S ARCHIVE AT THE of Mackay’s journalism, political activism, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING travel, photography and charity work. His journals, notebooks and correspondence Rosie Al-Mulla is Archivist & Research Support preserve relationships with some major Assistant at the University of Stirling. In this political figures of the period, while the large article, she shares her experiences of working on collection of photographs taken by Mackay Peter Mackay's archives, which tell a fascinating during his travels story of the struggle for independence in around Southern Southern Africa. Africa provides a OUR CHALLENGE WAS TO stunning visual FIND THE RIGHT WAY TO SHARE Peter Mackay was the son of a Scottish family record of a THIS FANTASTIC RESOURCE with strong links to Doune, just north of continent during a Stirling. He abandoned a promising military period of great change. career in 1947, having been the youngest man Mackay was active in a number of countries to become a Captain in the Scots Guards. from his arrival in Africa in 1948 until his Instead, he emigrated to what was then death. He fought for independence in Malawi, Southern Rhodesia to become a tobacco ran Freedom Road to Botswana, worked for farmer. Before long he felt that this too was the International Refugee Council of Zambia, not the career for him and he left farming in published for the National Development favour of journalism, though he remained in Corporation as they built a brand new capital similar circles for a while, debuting his city in Tanzania and finally retired to Omay journalistic skills in Rhodesian Farmer in a where he worked tirelessly to improve health team that he was sorry to leave. and education for the region.

But Peter Mackay had long since felt Peter Mackay died at his home in Zimbabwe in uncomfortable with the colour bar in Southern 2013 and his family, taking his wishes into Rhodesia and so after becoming involved in account, ensured that his archive was donated David Stirling’s Capricorn Society he became to us at the University of Stirling. an active member of the anti-colonial independence One of the great challenges movements which were that confronted us when we sweeping Southern received such a fascinating Africa at the time, and collection was how we were he turned his new going to share this resource profession towards adequately. We are so aiding that cause. fortunate to have this collection with us in Stirling, His important but it contains such important contribution to the material for the study of struggles for African politics, history and independence was nationalism that we wanted to highlighted by the be able to open up access to historian Terrence as wide a range of researchers Ranger, who described Fig. 1: Peter Mackay, dog lover, avid gardener and as possible, particularly in freedom fighter. Image credit: University of Stirling Africa – not only to satisfy him as ‘an unknown Archives and Special Collections. hero.’ Ranger also ourselves that we were doing noted the importance of Mackay’s personal our best by the collection and the research archive, writing in his preface to Mackay’s book community but also because fostering this

2 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 kind of knowledge exchange seems like exactly reflected in the varied content it produced. the kind of thing Peter Mackay would have Our run of Concord spans the years 1954-1958 strived for himself. and includes the ‘Royal Number’ which celebrated the visit of the Queen Mother to So on 29th November 2016 – Giving Tuesday – Southern Rhodesia in 1957. we launched a Crowdfunding Campaign to raise money to open up access to the Unlike Concord, Malawi News was geared solely collection. We aimed to raise £8,000 which towards politics. This periodical was the would enable us to digitise the photographic mouthpiece of the Malawi Congress Party – collection we hold in the archive along with a the party which was established by Orton remarkable set of Central African anti-colonial Chirwa to replace the Nyasaland African periodicals that Mackay was involved with Congress after its key members had been either as editor, publisher or journalist – and imprisoned during Operation Sunrise in 1959. often a combination of the three. The £8,000 Our run of the initially fortnightly and also made some provision towards eventually weekly run of Malawi News spans appropriate storage for the collection and January 1960-January 1961. The newspaper is some dedicated archiving time. a fascinating source of information on the political climate from a very singular point of With tireless tweeting, match funding from view, offering an interesting look at a reporting HLF and the generosity of 64 supporters – style that was at times unpolished and often some friends and some friendly strangers – we displayed open bias. The insight it provides raised a little more than our target in 56 days, into the propaganda surrounding and closing the campaign in January 2017. Later in sustained by the MCP and its leader, Hastings 2017, the crowdfunding project was short- Banda, is remarkable. listed for Campaign of the Year at the Herald Higher Education Awards and in July we were thrilled to win a special commendation in this category.

After this we were eager to get started on the digitisation aspect of our project so that our supporters could have the satisfaction of seeing the tangible change they had made to the collection and we were no less keen to start opening up the archive to the wider world. Aside from some 3,000 photographs that Peter Mackay had made into albums (goodness knows how many more thousands Fig. 2: A view of Zomba from the plateau, with Mlan'e of negatives await us still in boxes – our next Mountain breaking the horizon. Image credit: University of challenge!), we also selected three different Stirling Archives and Special Collections publications from the collection to digitise: Concord, Tsopano and Malawi News. Lastly, we chose Tsopano, a periodical that was wholly Peter Mackay’s own, from concept to Concord was the journal of the Interracial publication. Mackay published and edited 13 Association of Southern Rhodesia, founded by issues of this anti-Federation publication Hardwicke Holderness, an MP who supported between 1959 and 1961, because he felt that full equality between races. Mackay was with something was needed to counteract the one- the publication from the very beginning and sidedness of press coverage in and about helped move it from an idea to reality. Concord Nyasaland, that Africans should have an open was intended to be the first multi-racial forum to express their opinions and that publication in the colony and this ideal was something had to be done to articulate what

3 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 he felt to be the little-known and certainly were key figures in Malawian politics. Dunduzu misunderstood cause of African nationalism. served as the Secretary General of the Malawi Congress Party and was a prospective Minister Because of this last aim, Tsopano was for Finance for Nyasaland. He died in a car produced in English so that influential English crash in 1962, leaving his brother Yatuta, who speakers could be better informed of the true had previously been involved in the party and feeling among Africans. Indeed, Harold was working as a security guard for Hastings Macmillan was counted among the magazine’s Banda, to pick up his political mantle. readers. Less than nine months after Dunduzu’s death, Meticulous production files are kept in Yatuta was reporting to Banda as the the archive for each of these Parliamentary Secretary for the issues and they provide a ZINDABA CHISIZA'S Ministry for Labour and he staggering insight in what it QUESTION ABOUT HIS became a Cabinet Minister was to publish politically GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-UNCLE under Banda’s government. under strict censorship. GAVE US A GLIMPSE INTO THE He came under fire (as almost EXCITING POSSIBILITIES OF THE all the ministers did) in the Once our material had been MACKAY ARCHIVE Cabinet Crisis of 1964 and fled digitised, we sent it on to JSTOR’s to Tanzania where he lived in exile Struggles for Freedom resource. JSTOR for three years before returning home makes this freely available to over 900 higher to try changing the corrupted system. He was education institutions across Africa, so we felt shot dead during what was described as a that it was a wonderful platform for the guerrilla incursion in October 1967. Mackay Archive to use. Zindaba had found mention of the Peter It is always exciting to imagine how your Mackay archive online and, already knowing archive is going to be used. For us, we were that Mackay had known his grandfather and given an extraordinary glimpse into the great uncle reached out to us to ask if we had possibilities of the Peter Mackay Archive in the any information on his relatives that we could share. He told us that as Dunduzu and Yatuta had died so young and their names been blacklisted in Malawi, many photographs and sources of information on them had been lost over time.

This was such a fantastic request for us to receive. I had already seen the names Dunduzu and Yatuta often enough to know that they were actually very close friends with Peter Mackay and that, correspondingly, we probably had a great deal of information to offer Zindaba. So I started sending Zindaba bits and pieces as I came across them, first of all just any correspondence I found – these Fig. 3: Nguni dance at the first conference of the Malawi letters were often out of context with regards Congress Party in Nkhota Kota, 1960. Image credit: University of Stirling Archives and Special Collections. their information but they provide an insight into the temperament of these men and form of an email from a lecturer at the allowed Zindaba to see his grandfather’s University of Malawi. Zindaba Chisiza handwriting for the first time. We found contacted us about his grandfather and great photographs of Dunduzu and Yatuta and their uncle, Dunduzu and Yatuta Chisiza. These men young families, there were articles in Tsopano

4 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 and Malawi News written on or by them and a against the puppet regime in order whole folder dedicated to their time as that we can have there a change of Operation Sunrise detainees. the system of government… I hope that we will meet again, one day! Dunduzu Chisiza organised the Nyasaland Sadly, they never did, but Peter Mackay saved Economic Symposium in July 1962 and we everything that he could in his personal have a full complement of the papers papers to ensure that these men could have presented at that event, including Dunduzu’s their story retold. And knowing that this is just own. The collection then follows Dunduzu’s the tip of the iceberg is incredibly exciting; career standing at the forefront of Malawian there are so many more people and events to politics as the country prepared for elections learn about across numerous countries where and freedom and we also have the press information may be scarce in the public release after Dunduzu’s death in September record, from an impassioned man in a singular 1962, just months after the Economic position. We very much hope to encourage Symposium he so successfully delivered. This new scholarship of the period. period brings with it some truly heartfelt correspondence between Mackay and Yatuta – MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT CAN BE FOUND ON who slowly begins to express his desire to THE PROJECT BLOG AND THE COLLECTION PAGE. FOLLOW THE continue where his brother left off and ensure ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ON TWITTER all his hard work was not in vain. @UNISTIRARCHIVES OR SEARCH ON TWITTER FOR #MACKAYARCHIVE. What might well be Yatuta’s first official report as Parliamentary Secretary, not long after EMAIL ENQUIRIES OR FIND OUT HOW TO DONATE TO Dunduzu’s death, is preserved in the archive, [email protected] addressed to Mackay in such a way as evokes Yatuta’s pride in his newfound pursuit. But WE ALSO HOPE TO ADD THE CATALOGUE TO ARCHIVESHUB IN perhaps most remarkable of all – the rarest THE NEAR FUTURE. access to a man so under-represented in Malawian history, is a letter that was handed to Peter Mackay through a mutual friend months before Yatuta’s death in 1967. It contained a copy of a Manifesto dated January 1967, stating the aim to overthrow Banda’s regime - and a letter addressed to ‘brothers and sisters’, yet asserted to be not for the public eye in the covering letter to Peter Mackay, which attempted to explain everything that had happened between Yatuta and the other exiled Ministers since they arrived in Tanzania and their various political stances as matters stood at the point of writing.

Yatuta’s covering letter to Mackay shows just how disillusioned he had become with Banda’s regime and foretells the events of October that year:

I feel that I must tell you that some colleagues and I have gone home to try and help mobilize and organise the masses for an armed struggle

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A FURTHER NOTE ON EARLY LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Dr. John Crawford is an independent libraries professional, Chair of the Leadhills Heritage Trust and Founder Chair of Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland. In response to articles published previously in the LIHG Newsletter, he reports here on two early library management systems in Scotland. Fig. 1: The newspaper stand in the entrance hall of Campbeltown Museum. Image credit: John Crawford. Last summer, I visited Campbeltown Museum on the Kintyre peninsula (Argyll) - formerly the They differed from Cotgreave indicators in that Public Library and Museum - gifted to the town there was a thin slip under each number which by James Macalister Hall in response to an was withdrawn and filed in conventional initiative launched by the Kintyre Scientific Browne issue boxes, which the manufacturer Association in 1896. Designed by the claimed was quicker to operate than the Glaswegian architect J. J. Burnett, the building Cotgreave system. It appears to be the only opened to the public in 1899 and today retains surviving example in the UK. some features of the former library and much of the original interior.1 In the entrance hall, There was some discussion about Cotgreave and still in use, is a newspaper stand (fig. 1). In indicators on the Lis-Libhist mailing list in the former library some original tables and October 2015 and articles in the LIHG 4 chairs still survive. newsletter in 2016. In addition to the Campbeltown indicator, these articles referred The main feature of interest is the four to Cotgreave indicators or parts of them at the indicator panels previously described as part Bishopsgate Institute in London; the Prichard of a Cotgreave indicator, with the suggestion Jones Institute on Anglesey (complete); the that the first three panels (1-3000) are missing Inglis Memorial hall in Edzell, Angus (fig. 2). The surviving panels may not be in (complete); Kilkenny, Ireland (complete); St their original location, but if they are, they Andrews, Fife; and Aberystwyth, Wales. were separate from the other three panels. The indicators are not encased in metal frames, whilst the labelling at the top suggests that the books were classified.

Unfortunately, modern electrics precluded a look behind the indicator panels. However, a check of the second edition of Brown’s Manual of library economy reveals that the Campbeltown panels are not the remains of a Cotgreave indicator at all, but were part of a Chivers indicator, invented in 1894 and marketed by Cedric Chivers.2 About three Fig. 2: Detail of the Campbeltown indicator. Image dozen were manufactured and used in the UK, credit: John Crawford. South Africa and Sydney, Australia. The Campbeltown example was advertised in the Publishers' Circular of 1900 as being there.3 I also visited St Andrews University Library to view the Cotgreave indicator that had been brought from the nearby village library of Strathkinness, reportedly having been found in

6 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 a working men’s club (fig. 3). This is notably (1844-1917) described in trade directories as a different from other surviving examples and hardware factor. He was the manufacturer of seems to have been manufactured specifically one of Cotgreave’s other inventions, the long for a small village library. It is basically a reacher, a device for retrieving books from wooden fold out case about 4ft by 3ft which high shelves. Around 1880, he was based in could be folded up and put away when not in Wolverhampton. He was also Cotgreave’s use. It has space for 2000 boxes but only 1000 brother-in-law.5 Maconochie and possibly his are provided. It has been used, but not much son seem to have had a continuing interest in judging by the box I looked at. The booklet the manufacture of the indicators. Richardson contains an address in Fore Street, Maconochie of Fore Street in Birmingham, Birmingham, and an issue date of 1907. Most probably Joshua’s son, filed two US patents for examples of Cotgreave indicators are indicators, one in 1903.6 The online version of associated with urban rate supported libraries, the text is rather corrupted and one would but here is clear evidence that the need to see the illustrations to make much independent rural sector was also viewed as a sense of it. It seems that indicators were used profitable market. in the brewing industry for controlling the issue and return of casks and bottles so indicators were not exclusively a library phenomenon. In 1920, Richardson Maconochie was named as the liquidator of Cotgreave’s Indicators Limited, by which time there must have been little or no demand for new indicators as the move to open access gathered pace.7

The other manufacturer is W. Morgan whose name is linked to two addresses in Birmingham: 21 Cannon Street and Fore Street, which are likely to have been business Fig. 3: The Strathkinness indicator, now at St addresses rather than occupational or Andrews University Library. Image credit: John Crawford. industrial addresses as neither address was suitable for manufacturing. There was also a I collected some data about the assembly/ Morgan indicator and its inventor may well manufacturing process of Cotgreave indicators have been an associate of Cotgreave’s. with the help of Andrew Mealey who is an According to Kelly, W. Morgan of Birmingham expert on information sources for industrial Central Library patented the Morgan indicator and business history in the West Midlands in 1876. He is listed in the Library Chronicle for where the assembly/manufacturing process 1885 as being a contact point for the took place. The Cotgreave indicators have Cotgreave indicator and Cotgreave’s other components which suggest several skills – inventions.8 The Morgan indicator was metal working for the frames, tin (or zinc?) superseded by the ‘Simplex’, manufactured by smithing for the metal boxes, printing for the the same maker. Frank Burgoyne calls the little books and carpentry for the frames. Morgan indicator one of the earliest indicators Presumably this involved subcontractors and and states that the ‘Morgan’[sic] indicator is subsequent assembly of the various parts, but "still in use at the Birmingham Central library’ nothing is known of this. and has ‘lately been improved and superseded by the “Simplex”, manufactured by the same However, some details of the manufacturers maker.’9 have emerged and there may have been two or even three. Another Morgan was W. Morgan who seems to have been primarily a bicycles fittings One was Joshua Richardson Maconochie manufacturer. Grace’s Guide for 1884 lists him

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as such and the ledgers of the Inglis Memorial I AM INDEBTED TO ELAINE MCCHESNEY, CURATOR AT Hall in Angus (1898) describe him as the sole CAMPBELTOWN MUSEUM FOR GIVING ME ACCESS TO THE CHIVERS 10 Cotgreave manufacturer (Fore Street). INDICATOR AND OTHER ARTEFACTS, TO ELIZABETH HENDERSON Whether the two W. Morgans were one and FOR GIVING ME ACCESS TO THE INDICATOR HELD AT ST ANDREWS the same man is difficult to establish. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, AND TO ANDREW MEALEY, JEAN SMEDLEY AND DR KEITH MANLEY FOR THE INFORMATION THEY SUPPLIED. Behind these convoluted stories lies a much bigger issue, namely the origins of the library supply industry in Britain which grew to be a multi million pound industry and one which has not much attracted the attention of library historians. Until the 1960s, the nature of the 1 F. A. Walker, Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute industry’s products did not change a great deal (London: Penguin, 2000), p. 159. 2 J. D. Brown, Manual of library economy. 2nd ed. with carpentry continuing to be the main skill (London: Library Supply Co., 1907), p. 346. required and it was only with the coming of 3 The Publishers' circular and booksellers' record of computers that the situation began to change. British and foreign literature, 1900. Although Birmingham had all the skills 4 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi- necessary to contribute to the library supply bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-LIBHIST; A. J. Bunch, ‘A Victorian library management system: the industry Cotgreave indicators seem to have Indicators of Alfred Cotgreave and others.’ LIHG been its main contribution. The Newsletter, Spring 2016, pp. 4-6. A. J. Bunch, advertisements listed at the back of the ‘Cotgreave Indicators: the sequel.’ LIHG Newsletter, second edition of Brown’s Manual contain Summer 2016, p. 32. mainly London addresses. 5 https://mmuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/ 2016/02/02/reflecting-on-the-history-of-libraries/ 6 www.google.com/patents/US730034; It is clear that indicator manufacture was not a www.google.com/patents/US841028 standalone activity but one in which 7 London gazette, 19.11.1920. manufacturers of other products might 8 http://archive.org/stream/librarychronicl11 engage in while there was money to be made. assogoog#page/n146/mode/2up/search/Prize+ Although Cotgreave was the ‘poster boy’ and medal1885 9 F. J. Burgoyne, Library Architecture: Library main promoter of his invention it was more of Construction, Architecture, Fittings, and Furniture. a group activity than previously thought. There (London: Allen, 1897), p. 82. Retrieved from: is considerable scope for further research in https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Library_Const the indicator manufacturing process and a ruction,_Architecture,_Fittings,_and_Furniture.djvu chronological list of indicators would be /106 10 desirable. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1884_Bicycle_ and_Tricycle_Manufacturers The indicator era with its first attempt at library management systems based on circulation curiously resembles the early era of library automation, which focused round circulation systems like Plessey pen to the exclusion of quality bibliographic records. Some indicators did claim also to function as catalogues and the early automation systems sometimes had rudimentary bibliographic records. IT companies were also willing to interest themselves in library management, the aforementioned Plessey pen in the UK being an example and Siemens in Germany.

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NEWS an article about the library in the Spring 2017 newsletter. The Library and Information History Group is sponsoring two places on the Montefiascone *** Conservation Project in Italy this summer. Google Arts & Culture has worked with the Niamh Delaney and Mairéad Walsh have been British Library to create the online version of selected to hold these bursaries to help the Library’s hugely popular Harry Potter catalogue the rare books collection for one exhibition. Love it or hate it, the site offers a week each. Watch out for their blogs from magical mix of exhibits, artwork, and behind- Montefiascone in mid-August, and for an the-scenes videos: article on their experiences in the autumn https://artsandculture.google.com/project/har LIHG Newsletter. ry-potter-a-history-of-magic.

Established by Cheryl Porter and Nicolas *** Barker in 1988, the Montefiascone The government has issued a good practice Conservation Project runs an annual toolkit for community managed libraries. It programme of conservation, courses and was produced by the Libraries Taskforce and cataloguing. More information about the aims to provide guidance in a range of service project can be found here: provision models for libraries supported by http://monteproject.co.uk/en/. local councils, but run to a greater or less extent with the help of volunteers; *** https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ Formerly of the Folger Shakespeare Library, community-libraries-good-practice-toolkit. Sarah Werner has written a book Studying early printed books, 1450-1800: A practical *** guide, which is out this spring at Wiley- It may not have escaped your attention that a Blackwell. To accompany this, she has also set new data protection law came into force on 25 up a website, Early Printed Books , which May. CILIP has commissioned a practical guide promises to be a storehouse of information, to GDPR from Naomi Korn, which can be including pedagogical resources. downloaded at https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/gdpr. *** The Rothamsted early book collection is due to *** be sold through Forum Auctions on 10 July. Facet Publishing has produced a blog post on Preservation Week, which ran at the end of The ca. 3200 printed books and pamphlets April. On its WordPress site, Facet has brought were brought together by Sir John Russell, a together three of its authors to comment on former director, in the 1920s and1930s, as a why preservation awareness is important, resource for the study of the history of what we can do to reach out to local European agriculture. The Lawes Agricultural communities about preserving their heritage, Trust currently owns the collection. Details of and how digital collections can be preserved. the sale can in due course be found at https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/Upcoming- *** Auctions. Have a read about the oldest item in Jill Dye will be joint-editor with Dr Peter Reid of the collection here. the Library and Information History Journal. She will take up her role in the autumn. *** John Crawford appears on YouTube in a film *** by People’s Historian Daniel Gray, talking Last year, Andrew Watson, Charles Benson, about the Leadmills Miners’ Library. He wrote and Iona Opie passed away. Andrew Watson was commemorated in issue 339 of SALON,

9 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 the online newsletter of the Society of Bliss, Wynkyn de Worde, and A Treatise of a Antiquaries, Charles Benson and Iona Opie Galaunt’ (Fredson Bowers Award). received obituaries in The Book Collector Ms Julia Mattison: ‘The Circulation of French (Spring 2018). Manuscripts in England in the Fifteenth Century’. *** Mr Edward Potten: ‘Italian Renaissance The National Archives and the University of bookbindings: their makers and owners’ Oldenburg (Germany) have secured funding to (Falconer Madan Award). start an ambitious 20-year project to digitise, Prof Lynda Pratt: ‘What John Murray Rejected: catalogue and describe the Prize Papers, a Towards An Alternative Bibliographical History collection of around 160,000 undelivered of British Romanticism, c. 1791-1830’ letters seized from ships by the British in wars (Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association Award). between the 17th and 19th centuries. The intention is to make the digitised letters freely *** available for searching and viewing online. For Hollywood loves rare books apparently... the full press release, see https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/hollywood- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/pr loves-rare-books ize-papers-project-launches-at-oldenburg-castle. *** *** ‘Bacon, cheese slices and sawblades: the ILAB has announced this year’s winner of the strangest bookmarks left at libraries’ is the Breslauer Prize for Bibliography: Ina Kok title of an article from the Guardian about – receives the 2018 award for Woodcuts in indeed – odd bookmarks people leave in incunabula printed in the Low Countries books borrowed from public libraries. (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Runners up were Dirk Imhof, Jan Moretus and the Continuation of *** the Plantin Press, Brill, October 2014 and Following last year’s IFLA conference in Staffan Fogelmark, The Kallierges Pindar. A Wroclaw Poland, the Library History Special Study in Renaissance Greek Scholarship and Interest Group has negotiated with IFLA Printing, Dinter, 2015. Journal to produce a themed issue entitled Libraries in times of crisis: historical *** perspectives. The Bibliographical Society has awarded grants to the following projects: ***

Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Research Fellowship: Lisa Fagin Davis has uploaded a virtual Dr Stephen Bernard: ‘The Tonson publishing reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal house: a bibliographical catalogue’. (http://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-75ud/).

Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Research Scholarship : The Gottschalk Antiphonal was written and Ms Anna Reynolds: ‘Binding Waste in Early illustrated in the late twelfth century by the Modern England’ scribe/artist/monk Gottschalk of Lambach and was used at the Lambach abbey for several Major Grants: centuries. Along with many other early Dr Brian Alderson: ‘Evolution of the printing manuscripts, It was broken for binding scrap and publishing of children's toy books and in the late fifteenth century, and its leaves picture books in the nineteenth century’ (Barry were used as flyleaves, pastedowns, and Bloomfield Award) spine-liners for books found at the Abbey Brian Cole: ‘Library bookbinding (Cedric bindery. During World War II, many of the Chivers)’. leaves were removed from the bindings and Dr Joseph Gwara: ‘Larceny in the Library: Philip sold as a way to raise money for a new wood

10 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 lathe for the abbey. The leaves are now O’Brien (Early Printed Collections Cataloguing scattered and have been identified at the Team Manager). Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Tea and coffee will be provided but attendees Yale, the St. Louis Public Library, a hotel in will need to make their own arrangements for Badgastein (Austria), the abbey of St. Paul im lunch. Lavanttal, and in Lambach itself. To book your place please contact Tim Pye ([email protected]), quoting your CILIP membership number (if applicable) and providing an invoicing address. LECTURES, SEMINARS AND EVENTS *** Rare Books and Special Collections Group History of Libraries Seminar Workshop PART CATALOGUING MUSIC NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SPONSORED BY Monday 4 June 2018 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THE LIHG 10:00-16:30 LIBRARIES Cost: £50 (+ VAT) for CILIP members / £60 (+ Tuesday 5 June 2018 VAT) for non-members 17:30-19:00 Location: British Library Robyn Adams (Centre for Editing Lives & When is a sinfonia not a symphony? What is a Letters, UCL), 'Donations to the Bodleian trio sonata? When was this piece of music Library in the Early Seventeenth Century' published? Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians This rare materials training day will introduce Library), 'Digging Deeper into the Marquess of participants to issues specific to music Dorchester's Library' publications, in the context of RDA (Resource Jacqueline Glomski (Centre for Editing Lives & Description & Access) and DCRM(M) – Letters, UCL), 'Religion and Libraries in the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials Seventeenth Century' (Music). You will be shown how to recognise and describe: This event will showcase some recent research • different score formats on library formation, both public and private, • types of notation in the seventeenth century. Three short talks • medium of performance will deal with patterns of book selection and • musical genres and forms acquisition as revealed by individual practice There will also be guidance on: and in seventeenth-century theoretical writing • production methods, publishers' plate on bibliography. The presentations will discuss numbers, and ways of dating music the potential for research on seventeenth- publications century libraries and the application of digital • the MARC music format and the use of MARC methods to this research. tags for describing music • when and how to create music preferred In association with the University of London titles research seminar on the History of Libraries. All are welcome. Those wishing to attend must The training is intended for those new to music send their names in advance to or early music cataloguing but with some [email protected], or tel: 020 experience of AACR2 and/or RDA. The trainers 7898 1400, not later than Monday 4th June. will be the British Library’s Caroline Shaw (Music Cataloguing Team Manager) and Iris Please note that admittance will not be before

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17:15 via the main gatehouse of Lambeth support a new history of the Bible in England, Palace. There will be a reception afterwards to one which blurs the boundaries between mark the tenth anniversary of the History of reform and conservatism, and between the Libraries seminar. Church and heresy. Among their pages we will encounter a hidden portrait of Jane Seymour, SUMMER VISIT TO THOMAS PLUME'S the marks of scholars, children and crooks, LIBRARY and the discovery of America. Saturday 9 June 2018 10:30 Each lecture will be accompanied by a display of manuscripts and books from the Library’s Thomas Plume’s Library was founded in 1704 collections and will be followed by a discussion under the terms of the will of Dr Thomas led by a respondent. The first lecture was Plume, Vicar of Greenwich and Archdeacon of delivered on 22 May, but still coming up: Rochester, who had been born in Maldon in 1630. He bequeathed to his native town his 29 May— Wycliffite Bibles and the Limits of collection of some 8,100 books and Orthodoxy pamphlets, to be kept in the building which he 5 June— 1535 and the First Two English Bibles had constructed from the ruins of the old St 12 June— The Great Bible as a Useless Book Peter’s Church in the centre of the town. 19 June— The Bibles of Edward VI and Beyond: Moving Fast Forward Numbers will be very limited and instructions on how to join this visit will be sent *** individually, so anyone wishing to attend This newsletter will reach you in the middle of should book in advance by emailing the London Rare Books. All events are free [email protected] no unless noted otherwise, and must be pre- later than Wednesday 6 June. booked via https://www.rarebookslondon.com/. Location: Thomas Plume's Library Still coming up: Market HIll, Maldon, Essex CM9 4PZ A LIBRARY OF SIGHTS AND VISIONS United Kingdom Wednesday 30 May 2018 15:00-17:00 *** A unique chance to view the historic book LECTURE SERIES: THE MATERIAL HISTORY collection of the College of Optometrists, OF THE BIBLE IN ENGLAND 1200-1600 including books on the workings of the eye, Cambridge University Library the science of optics, ocular disease and ophthalmic surgery. Originally gathered by the The lectures are given by Dr Eyal Poleg, senior British Optical Association in Edwardian times lecturer in material history at Queen Mary and greatly augmented with the help of the University of London. Each lecture will take microscope historian T. H. Court in the 1920s, place at 17:30pm in the Milstein Room. The the collection includes a 1st Edition of lectures each stand alone and everyone is Newton's 'Opticks' (1704) and many other welcome. visual treats. The Curator will take books from From the rise of mass-produced Vulgates in the shelves especially for this group and turn the thirteenth century to the proliferation of the pages of volumes that are rarely seen, innovative vernacular prints in the sixteenth, except by specialist researchers. This visit will five lectures will chart the history of the Bible also allow time to visit the British Optical in England across print and reform. Association Museum within the same Manuscript and early printed bibles from the professional headquarters building. collections of Cambridge University Library will

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Location: Richard Whittington is arguably the most British Optical Association Museum and famous Londoner. The rags-to-riches story of Library, Dick Whittington coming to London and The College of Optometrists making his fortune with a little help from a 42 Craven Street feline friend is a familiar tale. London WC2N 5NG Join Ann Martin, Assistant Librarian, to look how the tale has been passed down the HAWKS & DOVES, BULLS & BEARS: generations through the broadside ballads, COLLECTING ECONOMICS chapbooks, children’s books, pantomimes and Thursday 31 May 2018 puzzles through the Guildhall Library’s 18:30-20:00 Whittington collection – a bequest from Ellery Yale Wood, cat lover and children’s book The evening will consider aspects of economic collector. thought through rare books. You will discover the long history of book dealer Bernard Location: Quaritch Ltd, meet their specialists and view Guildhall Library some stock highlights. Aldermanbury London Wine, soft drinks and nibbles will be provided. EC2V 7HH Please note: the event will take place on the first floor, which is only accessible by stairs. BLOODS AND PENNY DREADFULS: A Location: TALE OF SENSATIONAL VICTORIAN Bernard Quaritch Ltd FICTION 40 South Audley Street Wednesday 6 June 2018 London 17:30-19:00 W1K 2PR “Bloods” and “penny dreadfuls” are terms used FROM THE DEVIL'S ACRE TO ST PETER'S to describe sensational penny fiction written GATES principally for the working classes between Saturday 2 June 2018 1830 and around 1910. The often gruesome 10:30-12:00 stories concerned criminals, particularly highwaymen, pirates, ghosts, and sensational This is a literary walking tour around an area historical stories. Nearly all would have been of dramatic contrasts. See two of London's produced in penny parts, issued weekly, with most beautiful early 18th-century squares and each part of four or eight pages featuring a the site of one of London's worst slums, lurid illustration. The ‘moral panic’ amongst memorably described by Charles Dickens; see certain sections of society brought about by through the windows (literally) of JS Mill and TE these publications can be related to the similar Lawrence, pass where John Milton lived, look modern condemnation of ‘video nasties’ and Queen Anne in the eye and hear about the ultra-violent computer games. However, the effects of social housing and Nazi bombs. ephemeral nature of the penny dreadful Led by Anthony Davis of Booksteps. means that many are now exceptionally rare and highly prized. This talk will include a rare This walk begins at St James's Park station and opportunity to view some of the Guildhall ends at Westminster. Punctuality is essential, Library’s own dastardly and morally the tour won't wait! reprehensible collection. Not for the easily corrupted! THE WHITTINGTON COLLECTION OF THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY Location: Monday 4 June 2018 Guildhall Library 14:30-16:00 Aldermanbury

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London Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) will EC2V 7HH reveal some of the links between London’s past and present book collections- and the DR JOHNSON AND HIS LOVE OF BOOKS tales of enterprise, transformation, obsession Thursday 7 June 2018 and destruction that are often behind them 19:00-20:30 The walk will start at the cloister entrance of Senate House, and finish at the Royal National What led Samuel Johnson to become one of Hotel. the greatest authors of the 18th century and the Father of the modern Dictionary? What By pre-booking only. made him the ideal choice for the job, but not someone you would want to lend books to? *** Join Celine Luppo McDaid, Curator of Dr THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF MAGDALEN Johnson's House to explore the influence COLLEGE, OXFORD books had on Johnson, and how they shaped his life. Starting April just gone, Magdalen College is running a series of events to accompany the You’ll also get a chance to see some of the exhibition Flora and Fauna of Magdalen House’s latest acquisitions, including a variety College (see p. 21). There are two more of unusual dictionaries, a James Gillray print lectures scheduled: satirising Johnson - 'Apollo and the muses, inflicting penance on Dr Pomposo, round On 25 June, at 17:30 Liam Dolan, Sherardian Parnassus', and a very rare first edition of Professor of Botany and on 8 October at Johnson’s first paid commission, London - A 17:30pm Kathy Willis, Professor of Biodiversity Poem, (1738). & Director of Science at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Numbers are limited for this talk and tickets cost £15.00. To book a place, email [email protected]. More information can be found at: Location: http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and- Dr Johnson's House archives/news/new-exhibition-the-flora-fauna- 17 Gough Square of-magdalen/ London EC4A 3DE *** Kedermister Library Open Afternoons BLOOMSBURY'S LOST LIBRARIES: A WALK The beautiful 17th century Kedermister parish THROUGH SOME FORGOTTEN BOOK library at Langley, near Slough, has several COLLECTIONS open afternoons coming up this year. It is a Sunday 10 June 2018 great opportunity to see a parish library dating 11:00-12:30 from the 1630s in its original home. Katie Twenty-first century London SPONSORED Flanagan, the Honorary Librarian, is also able contains some of the finest BY THE LIHG to take individual and group visits at other book collections in the world, days/times by prior arrangement. but what about the libraries Further details about the library are available that haven’t survived? If you know where to at look, London’s streets and alleyways are http://langleymarish.com/stmary/kedermister- crammed with the ghosts of libraries past. library/

This walk will carry you back through The dates of the open afternoons are: 3 June, Bloomsbury’s history, to long-forgotten 1 July, 5 August, and 2 September between libraries, readers, librarians and collectors. 14:30 and 17:00.

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CONFERENCES ANNUAL PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: THE PEOPLE IN CONFERENCE INDEPENDENT LIBRARIES THE ALLIES OF BOOKS: Friday 1 June – Sunday 3 June 2018 KEEPERS, CURATORS & COLLECTORS IN 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. Further information: https://www.independentlibraries.co.uk/annual- Photo credit: St Bride Foundation. meeting

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THE ST ANDREWS BOOK CONFERENCE: Cost: £30 (Students) £40 (LIHG members) £50 PRINT AND POWER (Everyone else) Thursday 21 June - Saturday 23 June 2018 The programme of our conference has now University of St Andrews been finalised and can be accessed here.

In the early modern period print could make We are also pleased to be able to offer a or break power. While scholars have focussed student bursary to attend the conference, mainly on efforts by authorities to restrict the details of which can be found on p. 20. circulation of printed texts, civic and ecclesiastical authorities recognised the The details of two preconference site visits for potential as well as the dangers of this new delegates on Friday 6 July are being finalised. technology. Cardinal Raymond Peraudi fully Starting at 15:30, the choice will be between embraced the advantages offered by the new Middle Temple Library and St Bride's medium of print. On his fundraising campaign Foundation. in the Holy Roman Empire he commissioned thousands of indulgence certificates and papal bulls. Repression of print could be fierce but MANUSCRIPT PAMPHLETEERING IN EARLY governments throughout Europe increasingly STUART ENGLAND recognized the power of print, and started Friday 29 June 2018 – Saturday 30 June 2018 using printed broadsheets to communicate British Library and Institute of Advanced decisions with their citizens. This conference Study, UCL will explore the multifaceted and changing relationships between power and print in the A two-day conference exploring early Stuart early modern world. England’s substantial and widely-circulated handwritten pamphlet literature, revealing http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/site/conference both the scale and significance of this scribal production. The conference will be held at the

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British Library and the Institute of Advanced Sunday 26 August 2018, Session 095 Study, UCL. Conference Hall 3, 9.30–11.30 a.m. (https://www.ifla.org/node/45262) Registration is free and lunch and refreshments will be provided. To book, go to: *** https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and- CILIP RBSCG Annual Study Conference events/college-of-arts-law/school-of-history- THE LIBRARY AS CLASSROOM: USING cultures/manuscript-pamphleteering-in-early- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AS TEACHING stuart-england MATERIAL Downing College, the University of Cambridge This is an AHRC-funded project that will map a Wednesday 5 September- Friday 7 large but little-known corpus of handwritten September 2018 political pamphlets that were composed in Delegates are invited to hear speakers from England between the Stuart accession (1603) across the country discuss using special and the outbreak of Civil War (1642). More collections for teaching across all library information is at https://mpese.ac.uk/ environments. Confirmed speakers include Dr Jessica Gardner (University of Cambridge), *** Siobhan Britton (University of Brighton), Sarah SHARP ANNUAL CONFERENCE Mahurter (University of the Arts London), Dr Western Sydney University Library Tabitha Tuckett (University College London), Dr Monday 9 July – Thursday 12 July 2018 Alison Pearn (University of Cambridge), Professor Simon Eliot (London Rare Book A draft programme is now available on the School), Dr Niveen Kassem (Newcastle conference website: University), Dr Robin Brooke-Smith http://sharp2018.sydney/program/ (Shrewsbury School) and Rachel Sinfield (Fitzwilliam Museum) *** LETTERPRESS PRINTING: PAST, PRESENT, Visits will also be organised to the University FUTURE Library and selected Cambridge colleges. Full University of Leeds details are now available on the RBSCG Thursday 19 July - Friday 20 July 2018 webpages Featuring a keynote lecture by Johanna *** Drucker, this two-day conference explores the Call for papers survival, legacy and relevance of letterpress IVING WELL WITH BOOKS printing in the digital era. L Centre for Material Texts, Richmond Building, Further details can be found at University of Bristol http://letterpress.leeds.ac.uk/events/final- Wednesday 5 September – Friday 7 conference-letterpress-printing-today-leeds- September 2018 19-20-july-2018/ Since the invention of the codex, the lives (and afterlives) of books have been intertwined with *** the lives of people. This interdisciplinary, WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION transhistorical, and transnational conference CONGRESS ,IFLA GENERAL organized by the Centre for Material Texts, CONFERENCE AND ASSEMBLY University of Bristol, aims to explore how Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia books have affected and continue to affect our Friday 24 August – Thursday 30 August 2018 daily lives and well-being. How we have lived The full conference programme is available with books in the past, how do we live with now. The Library History SIG panel is them in the present, how we might live with scheduled for them better in the future, and how might we

16 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 help others do the same? *** As readers, writers, creative practitioners, THE EYES AND EARS OF POWER: educators, researchers, curators, consumers SURVEILLANCE, HISTORY AND PRIVACY and producers, how do books feature in our University of Copenhagen, Denmark lives? How do they share our living and Thursday 13 September – Friday 14 working spaces? How might books contribute September 2018 to health and wellbeing? Do books keep us apart from each other, or can they enable us The conference will delve into the historical to connect with communities? What are the dimensions of surveillance by addressing the consequences of not living with books? How following two main questions: far do the answers to these questions depend • Who are the central actors in the history of on location, or income, class, gender and other surveillance? variables? How might the answers to these • What kinds of phenomena have been questions have changed over time? What is deemed eligible for surveillance, e.g. the value of asking these questions in an information flows, political movements, increasingly digital age? specific technologies, border-crossing trade and interacting with foreign states? We welcome proposals from postgraduates, Confirmed key note speakers: early career researchers, and established scholars from all disciplines, embracing both • Sébastien-Yves Laurent (Université de qualitative and quantitative research Bordeaux-IRM/ Sciences Po Paris-Mètis) paradigms. • Toni Weller (De Montfort University)

Topics may include, but are not limited to: The preliminary programme, practical 1. Living alongside books information and cost are available at 2. Books in our hands http://jura.ku.dk/english/calendar/2018/eyes- 3. Books, health, and wellbeing and-ears-of-power/ 4. Books and communities 5. Getting hold of books *** 6. Living badly with books THE BOOK AS CURE: BIBLIOTHERAPY AND LITERARY CAREGIVING FROM THE FIRST We welcome abstracts for: WORLD WAR TO THE PRESENT - individual 20-minute presentations Gordon Room, Senate House, University of - posters London - panels of 3 speakers Friday 14 September 2018 - workshops (up to 60 min work-in-progress discussions with at least 3 presenting Keynote Speakers: participants) - roundtables • Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University) • Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen) Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (individual papers and posters) or 500 This one-day event, part of the annual words (panels, workshops and roundtables), programme of the History of Books and together with a short biography (max 150 Reading (HOBAR) research collaboration at words) to: [email protected] by 1 June The Open University, explores in the centenary 2018. year of the war's end the legacy of wartime bibliotherapy. It brings together early career For further information, see researchers and advanced scholars with http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2018/sept practitioners, policy makers, charities, and ember/living-well-with-books-centre-for- representatives from the culture and heritage material-texts-conference.html industries to foster an interdisciplinary

17 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 dialogue about the curative power of reading mobile media. Our perceptions of extant during and after the war. How is that curative textual artefacts also change in light of power understood now? How was it increasing digitisation. New digital tools for understood in 1914? How has it been textual scholarship are regularly released; managed since in the voluntary sector and in book historians now enjoy access to vast institutions? In what ways does the legacy of digital archives of textual material. Indeed, digital technologies allow us to engage with First World War bibliotherapy remain active in extant textual artefacts in new ways, while at contemporary policy-making in the charity the same time offering new avenues for text sector, and in work with veterans and settled production and reception. refugees? This study day, held at Loughborough Led by three members of The Open University, will explore the new prospects University's Department of English & Creative afforded to book history scholarship by Writing, Siobhan Campbell, Sara Haslam, and increasingly digital circumstances. It will do so Edmund King, this event will contribute to and through two types of presentations: 20-minute shape understanding of the therapeutic paper presentations and 15-minute importance of books across disciplines and presentations of digital tools of particular help to generate further focused research in interest to book historians. the Humanities and beyond. Some questions to explore include, but are not https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/ limited to: book-cure-bibliotherapy-and-literary- • How do digital technologies contribute to caregiving-first-world-war-present new ways of considering texts and books? • How is the format of the printed book *** changing in response to a demand for digital texts? What is the relationship between print BOOKS, READERS, AND READING: and digital? CELEBRATING 250 YEARS OF THE LEEDS • Who does and does not have access to digital tools and databases related to texts and LIBRARY books? • How are new ideas shared, developed, and Thursday 20 September-Saturday 22 engaged with using digital tools? September 2018 • How do digital tools facilitate or hinder book history research and textual scholarship? To celebrate its long and illustrious history, the Leeds Library is hosting an international • What do digital technologies enhance? What conference on the history of books, readers do they obsolesce? and reading. Information about key note • How have perceptions of tangible books speakers, themes, and cost is now available on changed in light of cultural digitisation? the conference website: • Where does the book fit within our digital https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/whats- on/250th-anniversary/conference/ world? *** Papers from postgraduate students and early career scholars are particularly welcome. Call for papers Please send a 250-word abstract and 50-word OOK ISTORY ESEARCH ETWORK B H R N biography to [email protected] or TUDY AY HE BOOK IN THE DIGITAL S D : T [email protected] by 22 AGE August 2018. Please specify whether you wish Loughborough University (UK) to give a 20-minute paper presentation or a Wednesday 24 October 2018 15-minute digital tool presentation. Digital technologies are changing the ways we produce, disseminate, and consume texts. *** Texts may take traditionally tangible forms, but they may also now take coded forms, physically accessible only through desktop and

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Call for Papers books WOMEN AND THE BOOK • Female librarians and/or curators Institute of English Studies, Senate House, • Female bibliographers or other book University of London scholars Friday 26 October 2018 • Female literary patrons • Female book donors A one-day symposium on women collectors, • Female guides of literary taste curators, and readers in Britain from the • Female mediators of the book: adaptors, Middle Ages to the present. translators, and teachers of literature

For much of the past, men have on the whole Topics with a London connection are been more highly educated than women, and particularly desirable. Papers connected with have consequently dominated the world of the University of London, or to women as books. From at least the Middle Ages, pioneers in any way, will be especially however, women have been involved in welcome. reading, owning, writing, and even commissioning books: activities that have Please send proposals of ca 200 words for increased over the centuries. With the advent papers of 20 minutes in length, with a short of public libraries in the nineteenth century, biography, to Dr Karen Attar, which coincided with increased literacy, and, [email protected], by 15 June 2018. gradually, with the increased employment of women, women further became involved in The Library and Information History Group is looking after public collections of books, first pleased to offer two student bursaries for this in a clerical fashion and ultimately in positions conference. See p.20 for further information. of leadership. *** In the year in which the University of London Save the date! celebrates the 150th anniversary of women’s HISTORIC LIBRARIES FORUM ANNUAL first access to University education in Britain CONFERENCE 2018 with the intake of eight women at Queen Mary College, this symposium explores the The Conference this year will be held at Christ interaction of women and books from the Church College, Oxford, on Monday 12th Middle Ages to the present, from the time that November and will centre on the theme of the book left the printing house: as collectors, broadening our skill bases and cross-collection owners, readers, and mediators, whether care. curatorial (librarians) or literary (adapting and translating for new audiences). It aims to enable connections across time and across More information will be added to the HLF types of engagement with the book, in website and keep an eye on our own social discussion covering book, literary, and cultural media and the next newsletter for further history. news.

Invited speakers are: Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling), “Women reading Jane Austen” and Dr David Pearson (University of London), “Seventeenth-century women book owners”.

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AWARDS AND BURSARIES Westerhof ([email protected]) by Friday 29 June 2018.

The LIHG is delighted to offer a student Please note that this bursary is only available bursary to attend this year's CILIP Library & to UK-based students in full or part-time Information History Group Conference at the education. Applicants must be members of the St Bride Foundation, London, on Saturday 7th Library & Information History Group (or be July. The bursary will include the conference prepared to join the group if awarded the fee and reasonable travel expenses not bursary). Successful applicants will also be exceeding £100. The committee may award required to write a 750 to 1000-word reflective more than one bursary based on the strength piece about the conference for the Spring of applications. 2019 newsletter.

Applicants should submit a one-page CV and *** short paragraph explaining their interest in attending the conference to Jill Dye Members of the Library History Round Table ([email protected]) by Friday 8 June 2018. of ALA created the Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award to recognize outstanding Please note that this bursary is only available work in our field by emerging library to UK-based students (full or part time), and historians. The committee for the selection of applicants must be members of the Library & the 2019 Dain Dissertation Award winner is Information History Group (or willing to join seeking submissions by January 11, 2019. the group if awarded the bursary). Successful applicants will also be required to write a 750 The full description of the Dain Award and the to 1000-word reflective piece about the submission process follows and will be conference for the Winter 2018 newsletter. updated to reflect the current biennial cycle and available at: The full conference programme is available http://www.ala.org/lhrt/awards/phyllis-dain- here: library-history-dissertation-award https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allies-of- books-keepers-curators-collectors-in-victorian- Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award britain-tickets-44152576545 The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association (ALA) sponsors *** the biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award. The award is offered only The LIHG is also pleased to be able to offer in odd-numbered years. The award, named in two student bursaries to attend a one-day honour of a library historian widely known as conference on “Women and the book: women a supportive advisor and mentor as well as a collectors, curators, and readers in Britain rigorous scholar and thinker, recognizes from the Middle Ages to the present”, outstanding dissertations in English in the organised by the Institute of English Studies, general area of library history during any time Senate House, London. The conference takes period or region of the world. Five hundred place on 26 October 2018. Full details of the dollars and a certificate are given for a call for papers and confirmed keynote selected dissertation that embodies original speakers can be found on p. 19. The two research on a significant topic relating to the bursaries include the conference fee and history of libraries during any period, in any reasonable travel expenses not exceeding region of the world. £100. Eligibility and Criteria Applicants should submit a one-page CV and Dissertations completed and accepted during short paragraph explaining their interest in the preceding two academic years are eligible. attending the conference to Dr Danielle Dissertations from 2016-17 and 2017-2018 will

20 LIHG Newsletter Series 4 no. 42 Summer 2018 compete for the 2019 award. Entries are FLORA AND FAUNA OF MAGDALEN judged on: clear definition of the research COLLEGE, OXFORD questions and/or hypotheses; use of Until 10 October 2018 appropriate primary resources; depth of Old Library, Magdalen College research; superior quality of writing; and Wednesday afternoons from 2-4:30pm significance of the conclusions. The LHRT is throughout term and the Long Vac. particularly interested in dissertations that place the subject within its broader historical, Old Library, The Flora & Fauna of Magdalen social, cultural, and political context and make College co-curated by two of our Prize Fellows, interdisciplinary connections with print culture Dr Sandy Hetherington and Dr Antone and information studies. Martinho-Truswell. The exhibition will explore the College’s natural history – from the site’s Submissions and Selection prehistoric origins to its modern day The award winner will be selected by the gardening. Visitors will have a chance to see Phyllis Dain Dissertation Award Committee mammoth teeth and fritillaries, prize-winning appointed by the LHRT vice chair/chair elect. pigs and Madonna lilies, the Flora & Fauna art The winner will be announced in a press competition shortlist, poetry inspired by our release on or about June 1st of the award year. natural settings, and much more. A certificate honouring the author will be presented at the Library History Round Table *** awards ceremony during the American Library Association Annual Conference. TALL TALES: SECRETS OF THE TOWER Until 28 October 2018 Submit one electronic copy of the approved Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge and signed dissertation and a signed letter of University Library support from the doctoral advisor or Monday-Friday 09.00-18.00, Saturday 09.00- dissertation committee chair at the degree- 16.30 granting institution. Submissions must be received by January 11, 2019. Receipt will be Throughout its history the Tower of confirmed within four business days. Send Cambridge University Library has generated submission to: Barry W. Seaver at awe, rumour, myth and fascination. The Tower [email protected] was an afterthought, built to house copyright collections deemed of ‘secondary’ importance. Now the Tower and its collections inform EXHIBITIONS contemporary research, inspire writers, and represent over a century of British literary, THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR domestic and popular history. You are invited Until 27 August 2018 to uncover the secret history of this John Rylands Library, University of Manchester remarkable structure. Free exhibition – all welcome. Poisonous paints, blackened bones, and beetles steeped in booze. Discover the strange *** and curious recipes that artists used to create TOLKIEN: MAKER OF MIDDLE-EARTH some of history’s most vivid colours. More 1 June to 28 October 2018 information can be found on the John Rylands Bodleian Library, Oxford What’s On pages Exhibition highlights include: *** • Draft manuscripts of The Hobbit showing the evolution of the story displayed alongside striking watercolours, dust jacket designs, line drawings and maps drawn for the publication;

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Original manuscripts of The Lord of The Rings buildings to offer an exploration of one along with dust jacket designs and beautiful community’s memorialisation of the war: watercolours; collective and individual, visible and unbuilt, • Original manuscripts of The Silmarillion, educational and aesthetic. Tolkien's very earliest work on the legends of the elves, which was unfinished during his lifetime and then published posthumously by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien; • Photos and letters from Tolkien's childhood and student days exploring themes of love, loss and war; • Letters of appreciation from a wide range of admirers including poet WH Auden, singer Joni Mitchell and author Iris Murdoch; • Personal objects that belonged to Tolkien including his art materials (boxes of paints, coloured pencils and sealing wax) and his William Sidney Vernon Evans (1866-1949), ‘The Last Post’, personal library; 1919 (FDA-D.205-2010).Reproduced by permission of the • A selection of maps of Middle-earth including Provost and Fellows of Eton College. a recently discovered map annotated by Among the memorials on display will be the Tolkien, which was acquired by the Bodleian in manuscript ‘Libro d’oro’ recording the service 2016; and of Etonians; one of four tapestries woven at • A specially-commissioned 3-D map of Middle- William Morris’s Merton Abbey Works earth. depicting the legend of St George; a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer; an exquisite tray by Tickets are available via the exhibition website: the 18th-century silversmith Paul de Lamerie; https://tolkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ a cabinet of natural history specimens; plans for proposed monuments; and inscribed *** copies of first editions from the Macnaghten IN MEMORIAM: GREAT WAR memorial library. REMEMBRANCE AT TON E To book a visit, contact us at 16 June to 12 November 2018 [email protected] or 01753 370 Verey Gallery, Eton College 590 By appointment only *** Early in the course of the First World War, Eton—like institutions, towns and villages, ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS governments and families across the country 19 October 2018 to19 February 2019 and the globe—began to ask how to PACCAR Gallery, British Library commemorate the fallen and the conflict most appropriately. The memorials established in A landmark exhibition on the history, art, response are so numerous, varied and literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, distributed as to permeate the fabric of the showing treasures from the British Library and college. other institutions. Highlights will include the Codex Amiatinus, created at Wearmouth- In the centenary of the final year of the war, Jarrow in the eighth century and returning to this exhibition brings together records and England for the first time in 1300 years, the St objects of remembrance from the college’s Cuthbert Gospel, objects from the museums, archives and libraries, as well as Staffordshire Hoard, the Junius Manuscript, from its chapels, boarding houses and school and the Vercelli and Exeter Books.

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PRINTED RESOURCES Books Library and information history journal, C. Archer-Parré & M. Dick (eds.), John Baskerville: Art and industry of the Enlightenment (Liverpool 34.1 (2018) University Press, 2017) ISBN 978 1 78694 064 3 Articles S. Webb and P.H. Reid, ‘Sir Francis Leicester’s “Good D. Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire de la bibliothèque library” at Nether Tabley’. Pp. 1-22 poetique d’auteurs français du XVIe siècle de Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller 1549-1630 (Librairie Droz, 2017) J. W. Cortada, ‘How to write a national history of ISBN 978 2 600 05793 6 information: The case of All the facts: A history of information in the United States since 1870.’ Pp. 23- J. Barbier-Mueller, Ma bibliothèque poetique. 2e 39 partie, Ronsard, t. ii (Librairie Droz, 2017) ISBN 978 2 600 01945 3 L.D. Bruce, ‘Subscription libraries for the public in Canadian colonies, 1775-1850’. Pp. 40-63 A. Borsuk, The Book (Cambridge, MA. /London: MIT Press, 2018) ISBN: 978 0 2625 3541 0 Reviews The National Home Reading Union and the Public L. Glass, Rebel publisher: Grove Press and the Libraries in the Context of Their Times, 1889–1930, by revolution of the word (New York: Seven Stories M. A. Bloomfield, Alsager, Cheshire, Bloomfield Press, 2018) ISBN: 978 1 6098 0822 8 Orchard Press, 2012 [i.e., 2017], [xv], 466 pp., ill., £22.00, ISBN: 9781527207288; K.A. Manley. Pp. 64- J.N. Hoover, Headlines of history: Historic newspapers 65 of St. Louis and the world through the centuries at the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association (St. Louis Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, Mercantile Library, 2017) 1500–2000, by Peter Burke, Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University Press, 2017, J. Lowry (ed.), Displaced archives (London: 293 pp., £38.00, ISBN: 9781512600384; Toni Weller. Routledge, 2017) ISBN: 978-1472470690 Pp: 66-67 R. Luckhurst (ed.), Science fiction: A literary history A History of Archival Practice, by Paul Delsalle, (London: British Library, 2017) ISBN 978 0 7123 translated and revised by Margaret Procter, 5692 3 Abingdon, Routledge, 2018, xvii, 245 pp., £95.00, ISBN: 9781409455240; Geoffrey Yeo.Pp.: 68-69 C. Lupton, Reading and the making of time in the eighteenth century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany, by Guenter Lewy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018) ISBN 978 1 4214 2576 4 University Press, 2016, 268 pp., £22,99, ISBN: 9780190275280; Ine Van linthout.Pp: 70-71 P. R. Rooney, Railway reading and late-Victorian literary series (London: Routledge, 2018) ISBN 978 1 Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents 1382 8563 7 from a Provincial Library, by Chris Paling, London, Constable, 2017, 306 pp., £14.99, ISBN: V. Sebastiani, Johann Froben, printer of Basel: a 9781472124715; Katherine Birkwood. Pp: 72-73 biographical profile and catalogue of his editions (Leiden: Brill, 2018) ISBN 978 9 0043 6030 3 The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, by Anders Rydell, translated by K. Sp. Staikos, The architecture of libraries in Western Henning Koch, New York, Viking, 2017, xvi, 352 pp., civilization: From the Minoan Period to Michelangelo ill., £20.00, ISBN: 9780735221222; John L. Flood. Pp: (Oak Knoll Press, 2017) 74-75 E.M. White, Editio princeps: A history of the Gutenberg Edmund Geste and His Books: Reconstructing the Bible (Harvey Miller, 2017) ISBN 978 1 909400 84 9 Library of a Cambridge Don and Elizabethan Bishop, by David G. Selwyn, London, The Bibliographical Society, 2017, 493 pp., ill., £50.00, ISBN: 9780948170249; Leah S. Veronese. Pp.: 76-78 Bibliographies, Katherine Birkwood & Eric Howard. Pp: 79-86

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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:

3 September 2018 (Winter 2018) 17 December 2018 (Spring 2019) 6 May 2019 (Summer 2019) Information about events, conferences and bursaries is also disseminated via the CILIP website (http://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special-interest-groups/library-information-history-group) or follow us: Twitter: @CILIP_LIHG Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5645439476/

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