Seized Books! An online exhibition. I am delighted to recommend the Seized Books online exhibition, even if it may seem a shameless opportunity to promote my own institution, Senate House Library. Senate House Library was bequeathed the collection of Jonathan Cutbill (1937-2019), one of the founder members of Gays the [...]
Mon 17th February 2025 6:30PM Join Middle Temple Library and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo for a fascinating virtual library tour of the Library of Royal English College of St Alban in Valladolid, led by its rector, Fr. John Flyn, and its librarian, Blanca Mateo. This will be followed by a talk about [...]
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing? We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any discipline, and at any career stage (including graduate students), to apply to our 2025 summer school: Print Matters. Supported by the [...]
Digital Scriptorium As a new Council member, I’d like to highlight the Digital Scriptorium as an increasingly indispensable portal into North American repositories of medieval and early modern manuscripts. It has the potential to become a national union catalogue, with 15,000 records from 37 member institutions’ collections currently available and [...]
Book fittings recorded on the Portable Antiquities Database My Presidential Address to the Bibliographical Society earlier this year (19 March 2024) included details of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database: https://finds.org.uk/ My intention was to draw attention to this well designed and enormous database which might offer suggestions of how [...]
The Koopman Collection at the KB, The Hague Anyone interested in the French illustrated book or in modern artist’s books will enjoy the online presentation of the Koopman Collection at the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands: https://collecties.kb.nl/en/koopman-collection With a focus on French literature and the book arts from [...]
Tickets are now available for the 2024 Panizzi Lecture Series which will take place at the British Library and online in December. This year's series, Black Bibliography, Here and Now, will be delivered by Elizabeth McHenry, Professor of English at New York University. In the course of her three lectures, Professor McHenry will [...]
The Bibliographical Society has for many years kept up a web page of additions and corrections to Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson’s edition of John Dee’s Library Catalogue, published by the Society in 1990. The original list of additions was maintained by Julian Roberts. A new list was established following [...]
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 [...]
