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 [...]
Our friends at the Francis Trigge Library, will be holding a Symposium "Carnival of the Animals", on Saturday, 29 June 2024, in Grantham. For details and to book your tickets, visit their event web site.
In May, the Bibliographical Society will be present at the annual London antiquarian bookfair, ‘Firsts’ at the Saatchi Gallery. The fair brings together over 100 British and international booksellers and the theme this year is ‘The Art of the Book’. We have been invited to participate by the Antiquarian Booksellers [...]
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 History of Information (dot com) At first glance, the intriguing website HistoryofInformation.com looks like just another aggregation of historical facts. It isn’t! Jeremy M. Norman has set himself the task of building a meta-history site: a history of data collections tagged by subject category. The resulting website is a [...]
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between June 2024 and September 2024. The deadline for applications is April 1 2024. The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference [...]
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 [...]
