The Society promotes research in physical and textual bibliography and the history of the written word.

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BSANZ Annual Conference Online

18–20 November 2026

Duplication: Originals, Copies, and Interpretative Communities

Draft Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1noGE78e5rocdZ6lEPvJnMreWTYTVhFiu/view?usp=sharing.

Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/bsanz-2026-duplication-originals-copies-and-interpretative-communities.

A final program with abstracts will be available at the end of October or early November. 

Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple, unique endings in their idiosyncratic experience. With an acknowledgement of the digital reproduction that enables this online conference to occur, we invite papers that address the impact of reproduction at any stage of this process. We especially welcome papers that address the impact of reproduction on the textual, material and cultural meaning of the work, text or image that is reproduced on, amongst others:

• Authorship
• Composition and revision
• Versions and versioning
• Duplicates and duplication
• Editors and editing
• Manuscripts and scribal cultures
• Printers and printing
• Publishers and publishing

• Digitisation and interoperability         
• Books, periodicals and serialisation
• Zines and zine culture
• Copyright laws and reproduction
• Adaptation and abridgement
• Book design and typography
• Forgers and forgery
• AI-generated content
• Readers and reading
• Textual performance

We are seeking proposals for individual 20-minute papers or panels, as well as proposals for 5-minute lightning talks. Please send a proposal of 2–300 words + a bio of no more than 50 words to roger.osborne@jcu.edu.au by 30 June 2026. All sessions will be enabled by Zoom.

Post-conference, presenters will be invited to submit a full-length article for peer-review that will contribute to a special Volume 50 of Script and Print, a milestone worthy of celebration.

Please note that all conference presenters must be BSANZ members: http://www.bsanz.org/membership

Broadsheet No. 121 is here!

We are delighted to release number 121 of the Society’s newsletter, Broadsheet. As you’ll immediately notice, this issue has a new look with an updated format, designed by Broadsheet‘s digital and publication designer, Claire Summerville. 

This number brings together reports from last year’s very successful conference, Transformations, articles from BSANZ members, exciting information about new and occasional publications and opens with another of the President, Simon Farley’s eloquent letters. 

As always, many thanks to everyone who has contributed ideas, suggestions, writing and feedback to Broadsheet. Our aim is to support the BSANZ community by recording and sharing some of the Society’s many and varied activities. 

Happy reading!

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Latest Issue of Script & Print— Vol. 46 No. 4 2022

New Occasional Publication

BSANZ is very pleased to announce the publication of a new Occasional Publication .

Carlo Dumontet Collation, Reference Notation, & Statement of Signing 109pp. ISBN: 9780645666229. AUD$25 Members AUD$20 Non-members. Please add $A15 per order for postage and handling within Australia, and A$25 per order for postage and handling to any other destination.

This workbook discusses the various techniques which can be employed in book collation writing in order to provide readers with the capacity to construct collations and to interpret published ones. W.W. Greg’s and Fredson Bowers’s approach is discussed in depth, together with Thomas Tanselle’s view on how to handle inserted leaves. Upon this Greg-Bowers-Tanselle bedrock other possible solutions are also discussed. The exposition relies on a large number of examples and also on some exercises in order to render this workbook as practical a tool as possible. This workbook will be an invaluable guide for students of bibliography, early printed books cataloguers, and booksellers, but it is hoped that all those engaged in collation-writing may find it a useful reference tool.

Please contact Amanda Laugesen (amanda.laugesen@anu.edu.au) to arrange payment by bank transfer or to organise a Paypal invoice.

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