DAY 1 – Thursday 28 November The University of Melbourne 8am Registration opens Forum Theatre, Arts West 8:45am Welcome to Country Forum Perry Wandin Theatre, Arts Opening address West Professor Wallace Kirsop, Founding member of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand 9:30-10:30 Keynote address: Voltaire as reader and annotator: between private and public Forum Dr Russell Goulbourne Theatre, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne Arts West t: @FrenchProfessor 10:30-11am Morning tea Lobby, Forum Theatre, Arts West All conference catering is supplied by STREAT, a hospitality-based social enterprise that provides supported vocational training and holistic personal support to marginalised and disadvantaged young people in Melbourne. SESSION 1 Illustrated/Artists’ Books SESSION 2 Personal Libraries Moderated by Daniel Wee, Moderated by Dr Mary Carroll, Monash University Charles Sturt University Arts West North Wing-156 Agar Theatre, Biosciences (Lectorial Room I) 4-G003 11-11:20 The bear that travelled through 11-11:20 Reading into the garden: a time and space and other tails meander through the Erika Mordek Bloomsbury bookshelf i: @theperfumeofbooks Olivia Meehan, The University of Melbourne i: @oliviameehan_ 11:20-11:40 Tériade: new frontiers for the 11:20-11:40 Caitlin Stone is unfortunately no artists’ book longer able to present at this Dr Rodney Swan, University of conference due to unforeseen New South Wales circumstances. 11:40-12 Books’n’things: tradition and 11:40-12 The ‘McCrae family library’ innovation in the art of Dr Rosemary Richards, Victorian ‘Chaekgeori’ from Joseon College of the Arts Secondary Korea School Fiona McConnell, The University of Melbourne 12-12:15 Question time 12-12:15 Question time 12:15-1:15 Lunch Research Lounge, Arts West, 5th floor SESSION 3 Colonial Publishing SESSION 4 Digital Humanities Moderated by Véronique Moderated by Dr Tully Barnett, Duché, The University of Flinders University Melbourne Agar Theatre, Biosciences Arts West North Wing-156 4-G003 (Lectorial Room I) 1:15-1:35 The legal background to the 1:15-1:35 Looking to the future to learn publication of Hawkesworth’s from the past: using specialist ‘Voyages’ imaging technologies to aid James McCourt research into historic books and manuscripts Julie Sommerfeldt, The University of Sydney 1:35-1:55 Reading around Censorship: 1:35-1:55 Cut and paste: the reuse of ‘The hermit in Van Diemens’ decorated initials in Fisher Land’ (1830) Library, Add MS 411 Craig Collins, Australian Dr Anna Welch, State Library National University & Victoria Sally Bloomfield i: @bibliovita 1:55-2:15 Re-fashioning ideas of taste 1:55-2:15 Digital ‘linked archives’, Pat and nineteenth-century Lawlor and trans-Tasman cultural production in the literary networks digital age Dr Helen Bones, Western Sydney Jocelyn Hargrave, The University University of Melbourne & t: @helenkbones Monash University t: @JocHargrave 2:15-2:30 Question time 2:15-2:30 Question time 2:30-3 Afternoon tea Lobby, Forum Theatre, Arts West SESSION 5 Non-Fiction Genres SESSION 6 Women, Fashions & the Book Moderated by Jocelyn Hargrave Moderated by Dr Anne Holloway, Monash University Arts West North Wing-156 (Lectorial Room I) Agar Theatre, Biosciences 4-G003 3-3:20 Phrasebook adaptation: 3-3:20 Volumes in vogue: women, content, mode & medium readership, and fashions Emma Koch, The University of Gemma Steele & Hayley Melbourne Webster, Museums Victoria t: @museumbooks t: @hayleybwebster 3:20-3:40 Genres of advice: considering 3:20-3:40 Of books and laces: the curious the multiple contexts of early case of ‘Les Joyaux’ (1847) and colonial books ‘Les Parures’ (1850) Dr Michelle de Stefani Bertrand Bourgeois & Véronique Duché, The University of Melbourne t: @VeroniqueDuche 3:40-4pm True crime: classification and 3:40-4pm The material metamorphoses of consumption French fairy tales Rachel Franks, State Library of Bronwyn Reddan, The University New South Wales of Melbourne t: @cfwriter t: @bronwynreddan 4-4:15 Question time 4-4:15 Question time 4:30-5:25 Panel discussion: Library History Matters Agar Dr Mary Carroll, Charles Sturt University, t: @booksr4reading Theatre, Dr Sue Reynolds, RMIT University, t: @SueReynoldsRMIT Biosciences Dr Anna Welch, State Library Victoria, i: @bibliovita 4-G003 James Baker, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, t: @AustralianJB Ellen Coates, Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library, t: @BiblioEl 5:25-5:30 Closing remarks Véronique Duché, President of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand 5:30-6:30 BSANZ Annual General Meeting Arts West North Wing-156 (Lectorial Room I) 7pm Conference dinner The Kent Hotel The Curtain Room, 370 Rathdowne Street, North Carlton Directions: From Melbourne University/Swanston Street, take the number 1 or number 6 tram northbound to stop #115, Melbourne Cemetery/Lygon St. From Lygon Street, turn right onto Newry Street, and then left onto Rathdowne Street. The hotel is located on the right-hand side, on the corner of Rathdowne and Curtain Streets. The Curtain Room is upstairs on the first floor. DAY 2 – Friday 29 November The University of Melbourne 9:30-10:30 Keynote address: Lost to memory and invisible stories: reflections on the Babel-305, Australian Library History forums 1984-2016 Chisholm Dr Mary Carroll Theatre Course Director in the Faculty of Arts and Education and Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University t: @booksr4reading 10:30-11am Morning tea Lobby, Forum Theatre, Arts West SESSION 7 Biographical Studies SESSION 8 A Touch of GLAM Moderated by Simon Farley, Moderated by Hayley Webster, University of Queensland Museums Victoria Arts West North Wing-156 Agar Theatre, Biosciences (Lectorial Room I) 4-G003 11-11:20 Invoking tradition to 11-11:20 Ethics of access: confronting manipulate readers racism in natural history Shef Rogers, University of library collections Otago Adria Castellucci, Australian Museum 11:20-11:40 May Gibbs: the business side of 11:20-11:40 Colonial connections and lost things books: Victoria at the 1876 Sarah Morley, State Library of Philadelphia Exhibition New South Wales Stephen Jakubowicz, The t: @SarahJMorley University of Melbourne t: @sjjakubowicz 11:40-12pm Eric Partridge’s war memoir: a 11:40-12pm Digitising Australia’s case study in the cycle of a biodiversity heritage literature book Nicole Kearney, Biodiversity John Arnold Heritage Library Australia t: @nicolekearney t: @bhl_au 12-12:15 Question time 12-12:15 Question time 12:15-1:15 Lunch Lobby, Forum Theatre, Arts West SESSION 9 eBooks & Reader Experience SESSION 10 Medieval Publishing Moderated by Gemma Steele, Moderated by Dr Anna Welch, Museums Victoria State Library Victoria Arts West North Wing-156 Agar Theatre, Biosciences (Lectorial Room I) 4-G003 1:15-1:35 Digital libraries and their read- 1:15-1:35 Modern methods, ancient in-browser environments texts, phylogenetic analysis of Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders an Old English royal genealogy University Nicholas Sparks, University of t: @tully_barnett Sydney & State Library of New South Wales 1:35-1:55 A sense-making approach to 1:35-1:55 In principio erat Verbum: active e-book indexes bringing to life theological Mary Coe, Charles Sturt manuscripts University Dr Anne Holloway, Monash University t: @A_M_Holloway 1:55-2:15 BookTube #readathons: 1:55-2:15 Diversity and unity in medieval examining permutations of the Europe: transmission of ideas contemporary reader and the Chronica Polonorum experience Darius von Güttner, The Meghan O’Neill, Anglia Ruskin University of Melbourne University t: @guttnerus t: @meghanluvsbooks 2:15-2:30 Question time 2:15-2:30 Question time 2:30-3pm Afternoon tea Lobby, Forum Theatre, Arts West SESSION 11 Provenance SESSION 12 Libraries, Collecting & Readers Moderated by Nicholas Sparks Moderated by Dr Sue Reynolds, RMIT University Arts West North Wing-156 (Lectorial Room I) Agar Theatre, Biosciences 4-G003 3-3:20 Descriptions of a description: 3-3:20 An early colonial thirst for the ‘Allport’ copy of STC 15193 knowledge Ian Morrison, Libraries Maggie Patton, State Library of Tasmania New South Wales t: @MaggiePatts 3:20-3:40 Apostle of the flesh: memories 3:20-3:40 “The utility of the well- of Charles Kingsley in the Fryer adapted book to ignorant and Library immoral persons is beyond Simon Farley, University of dispute” Queensland Dr Mary Carroll & Dr Jane Garner, Charles Sturt University t: @booksr4reading t: @DrJaneGarner 3:40-4pm The past is present: 3:40-4pm The book, the scholarly edition provenance and personal and the literary work: the role narratives of value at the State of the reader Library of South Australia Paul Eggert, Loyola University Heather Robinson, Flinders Chicago & University of New University South Wales t: @PaulEggert1 4-4:15 Question time 4-4:15 Question time 4:15-5:15pm Keynote address: ‘The attention only an algorithm can give’: books, data and Agar digital humanities Theatre, Dr Christopher Thompson Biosciences Head of Department Digital Humanities & Co-director, UC Arts Digital Lab, 4-G003 University of Canterbury 5:15-5:30 Closing address Dr Christopher Tiffin, The University of Queensland Closing remarks Members of the conference organising committee 6:30pm Drinks reception Douglas Stewart Fine Books 720 High St, Armadale Directions: From Melbourne University/Swanston Street, take the number 6 tram southbound to stop #38, Orrong Rd/High St. From the tram stop, continue down High Street for 65m, and the shop is located on the right-hand side. .