AALT: Digitised documents from medieval and early modern England The website of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT.html) is the result of a collaboration between the University of Houston Law Center in the US and The National Archives (TNA) in the UK, which was first drawn up in 2006. Its aim [...]
The CERL Thesaurus : naming the world of early modern Europe The CERL Thesaurus is one of the many resources made available by the Consortium of European Research Libraries. The linguistic diversity and the troubled history of Europe mean that there often are dramatic variations in names used for the [...]
The Society is seeking to appoint two new Council members at its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. Also at the AGM Richard Linenthal will step down as President and will be succeeded by Nicolas Bell. Nominations for Council and a Vice-President will therefore be considered at the [...]
A digitised card catalogue for Russian books One of the problems of using common databases such as OCLC/WorldCat when researching Russian books is their comparative incompleteness. Many titles simply aren’t listed at all. A free online resource I like to use is the old card catalogue of the National Library [...]
The Ligatus Summer School is being held this year in the Maurits Sabbe Bibliotheek of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies in KU Leuven. The courses will be run over two weeks, from 26-30 August and 2-6 September (Week 1 (26 – 30 August): European Bookbinding 1450-1830, Week 2A [...]
A union catalogue of manuscripts from the Islamicate World FIHRIST is the union catalogue of manuscripts from the Islamicate World, a collaborative project to map the manuscript collections housed in more than twenty participating institutions in the UK and Ireland. It is a fast-growing catalogue, with new holdings added regularly [...]
Deadline Extension - Call for Papers: Conservation Ethics and Decision-Making We are extending the invitation to submit proposals for a one-day symposium to explore themes on conservation ethics and decision-making. The new deadline is 18 June. The symposium will take place in-person at Durham University on 20 November, and is [...]
Priorities and Perils In this series celebrating and promoting digital resources that support book history, perhaps we should pause, take a minute’s silence, to reflect on the recent calamitous events at the British Library? I’m sure all readers will know that the BL’s website, services and e-resources went offline following [...]
Historical Conversion of Currency Studies of book history invariably involve determinations of monetary value, and even though we all know how imperfectly historical values are correlated with contemporary ones, it doesn't stop us from trying. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! I've always been unhappy with attempts to [...]
The Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce the launch of its YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@BibliographicalSociety/. The channel offers recordings of the Society's monthly lectures and other online events. Videos will be posted several times each month until all the lectures from 2020 onwards have been made available. A full list [...]
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia announces a landmark electronic publication – Gordon B. Neavill’s Bibliography of the Modern Library, 1925-1959 The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Library are pleased to present the Modern Library Bibliography, an electronic database covering all Modern Library [...]
The Plantin Press Online Christophe Plantin was born near the French town of Tours, probably around 1520. After working in Caen and Paris he moved to Antwerp, then one of the most important commercial cities in Europe, where he established a successful publishing house. In 1576, he purchased a building [...]
