BSANZ 50th anniversary celebrations

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In 2019, the Society celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Please join us in Melbourne on Tuesday 26 February 2019 to mark the occasion. There are three parts to the gathering, across two venues:

  • 1.30–5pm, State Library Victoria, Conference Centre, Entry 3 La Trobe St: Papers on the history of the Society and current research will be presented by Wallace Kirsop, Brian McMullin, Chris Tiffin, Merete Colding Smith and Louise Box.
  • 6–7pm, State Library Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3 La Trobe St: The annual Foxcroft Lecture will be presented by Louise Anemaat (SLNSW) on ‘Unseen art of the First Fleet’.
  • 7.30pm, University of Melbourne: Dinner for Society members and supporters (cost to be confirmed).

Please indicate interest in the papers and the dinner to Meredith Sherlock (meredith.sherlock@monash.edu) by 20 January 2019. Venue details and the dinner cost will be confirmed once this information is received.

You must book separately for the Foxcroft Lecture, and this free event does book out – please follow this link to secure your place: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/2019-foxcroft-lecture-unseen-art-first-fleet.

BSC Emerging Scholar Prize

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The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Emerging Scholar Prize. The Prize promotes the work of a researcher who is beginning a career in the fields of book history and bibliography broadly defined, including a study of the creation, production, publication, distribution, transmission, history, and uses of printed books, manuscripts, or electronic texts. Preference will be given to topics with a Canadian dimension.

The recipient of the BSC Emerging Scholar Prize will be invited to deliver a paper at the Society’s annual conference. A revised article-length version of the paper will be published in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada subject to peer review. A grant of $500 accompanies the Prize and may be used to help the recipient attend the annual BSC conference or to meet costs associated with research. The recipient will also receive a one-year complimentary membership in the BSC.

Students of any nationality enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program (e.g., MA, PhD, MLIS) are eligible, as is anyone who has completed such a program within the last two years from date of convocation. Individuals holding tenure track/continuing appointments are ineligible, as are members of the Awards Committee and the BSC Council. There are no restrictions regarding the topic of research so long as it relates to some aspect of bibliography or book history.

Council members of the Bibliographical Society of Canada are eligible for awards and fellowships unless they are serving on the executive, the Awards Committee, or the Fellowships Committee.

Applicants must submit the following documents electronically in English or in French, in a single PDF file in the following order:

  • A one-page cover letter that explains the applicant’s interest in and suitability for the prize;
  • A brief CV (max. three pages);
  • An abstract (max. 750 words, incl. bibliography) of the proposed paper;
  • Proof of student status or of graduation within the past two years (copy of diploma, copy of student identification, or official or unofficial transcript).
  • As well, one confidential letter of reference should be emailed directly by the referee. The letter may be given as text or sent as an attachment, but it must include the referee’s contact information and any institutional affiliation.
  • All application materials, including letters of reference, should be sent to Sarah Lubelski, Chair, BSC Awards Committee, awards_prix@bsc-sbc.ca, by December 7, 2018. Incomplete applications will not be considered. The recipient will be announced in February 2019.
  • Additional information about the award and the BSC can be found at: http://www.bsc-sbc.ca.

June 2018 Books for Review

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Dear Members,

Please see the below list of books which may be of interest to some readers who might wish to offer a book review.

Persons wishing to review books should contact Dr Nicholas Sparks, Reviews Editor, Script & Print, St. John’s College, Camperdown, NSW, 2050 (bsanz.reviews@gmail.com). ​

For further information refer to ​the Script & Print Book Review guidelines.

June 2018 – Books for review (PDF file)

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 41 No. 1 (2017)

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SP-41-1-2017Contents:

  • Patricia Thomas — Iconoclastic Effrontery: Rex Fairburn, Bob Lowry and the Printing of Polemics
  • Marion Amies — Amelia Carey White: Author of Social Life and Manners in Australia
  • B. J. McMullin — Walter Scott’s Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806, and the Collected Works
  • John C. Ross — Fleuron: A User’s Report—And Charles Ackers Revisited Again
  • Nicholas A. Sparks — Corrigenda to Two Modern Editions of The Peterborough Chronicle
  • Reviews — The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478 (B. J. McMullin); The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Type of Bruce Rogers (Dennis Bryans)

You can subscribe to Script & Print by becoming a BSANZ member.

Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 40 No. 4 (2016)

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  • Chris Vening — William Martin Leggett: The “Bard of New Brunswick” in Australia
  • Donald J. Kerr — For the Boys Over There! The Churchill Auction of Books and Pictures in New Zealand, 1942
  • Duncan M. Campbell — Henry E. Huntington’s Chinese Book: A Bibliographical Note

You can subscribe to Script & Print by becoming a BSANZ member.

Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 40 No. 3 (2016)

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  • Paul Eggert — The Long 1890s: Henry Lawson, Francis Adams and the Anglo-Australian Network in London
  • J. E. Traue — Eighty Years of Serial Fiction in New Zealand Newspapers: A Snapshot of Writers and their Readers
  • Patrick Spedding — Unfortunate Delays in Publishing the Bibliothèque Britannique
  • B. J. McMullin — Matthew McLennan Young, Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: Further Bibliographical Notes

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Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.

Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowships

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Nicholas Sparks, who is a past Fellow, draws the attention of BSANZ members to The Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London which is making its annual offer of a range of Fellowships at the Institute:

Fellowship Applications Now Open 

Applications are now open for the Institute’s Research Fellowship, Visiting Research Fellowship, and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship programmes. Fellowships allow early career and established researchers the opportunity to work closely with the Institute. Applications are accepted 1 February – 1 March. To learn more, or to apply, please click here.

Call for Papers: BSANZ Conference 2017 (Hobart, 22-24 November)

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Connecting the Colonies: Empires and Networks in the History of the Bookautas001144581410_v2

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

22-24 November 2017

Empires of all kinds – commercial, geo-political, bureaucratic – are defined by their peripheries as well as their centres, by the flows of information that maintain or destabilise their structures of authority and control.

BSANZ, in collaboration with the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP), invites scholars and researchers to consider the printed word, the book, and texts of all kinds, as both mechanism and matter of transmission.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any matters of bibliographical interest, traditional and contemporary. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Commercial empires: the book as a commodity in colonial contexts
  • Across boundaries: print networks across geo-political, commercial or bureaucratic borders
  • The trans-temporal: the afterlife of books and re-imagining of ideas
  • Indigenous cultures, frontier encounters, and the presence or absence of print
  • The stuff of legend: the role of print in constructing colonial and imperial consciousness
  • The book as treasured possession: emotion, ownership and display

Proposals for three-person panel discussions are also welcome.

Some financial assistance towards travel costs may be available for postgraduate students who are presenting papers. Please enquire when submitting your proposal, and include a brief budget outlining your anticipated travel costs.

Proposals – including, a 250-word abstract title of paper, name and institutional affiliation of each author, a brief biography of each author, email address of each author, and 3-5 keywords – should be sent to the convenor, Ian Morrison ian.morrison@education.tas.gov.au.

Presenters must be members of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 31 March 2017.

Image: detail from Captain Austin’s Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, W L Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 40 No. 2 (2016)

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sp-40_2Contents:

  • Ashok Malhotra — Advertising Colonial Romance and Imperial Masculinity: The Promotion of Philip Meadows Taylor’s Novels in Britain
  • B. J. McMullin — Further Reflections on Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press
  • Review — Hocken: Prince of Collectors (Paul Brunton)

You can subscribe to Script & Print by becoming a BSANZ member.

Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.