For bibliophiles, Nick Graver passed along a note from a librarian friend heading to New York this week for Bibliography Week, a gathering of rare book librarians. Here's a description of the events from the Grolier Club web site. Follow the link for complete details - I've just selected a few items.
-Editor
JANUARY 25-30 IS BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK. "Bibliography Week" happens each year in New York City at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book history have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since so many bibliophiles are in town. Some events are open to members only, but mostly you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, schmooze over cocktails...
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
• 2:00 pm-7:00 pm. At the Grolier Club: Collecting Symposium. Held in connection with “The Grolier Club Collects II,” this half-day symposium brings together The Grolier Club, the Harry Ransom Center, and the New York Public Library to celebrate the book-collecting legacy of Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879–1957).
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27
• 2:30 pm-3:30 pm. At the Grolier Club: Bibliography Week lecture, with Arthur Schwarz offering “Curator’s Choice,” in connection with “The Grolier Club Collects II” exhibition.
• 3:00 pm-5:00 pm (Seminar), 6:00 pm-8:00 pm (Lecture). At the New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street: “Library Records in the Digital Age: A Symposium on Teaching and New Research,” co-sponsored by the Gotham Center for New York City History. Open to the public free of charge. Participants are welcome to attend one or both parts, but advance registration is required.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29
• 2:00 pm-7:00 pm. At the Cosmopolitan Club, 122 E 66th Street (Park and Lexington): The annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America. Papers from New Scholars at 2 pm, Annual meeting at 4 pm, with address to follow. This year's guest speaker is Michael F. Suarez, S.J., on "Hard Cases: Confronting Bibliographical Difficulty in Eighteenth-Century Texts.” Reception follows at 6 pm.
For more information, see:
Bibliography Week 2016
January 25-30, 2016: Preliminary Schedule of Events
(www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=289376&ssid=168769&vnf=1)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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