SHARP News

SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) (2000) SHARP News 9(4):pp. 1-16.

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This is the Autumn 2000 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: NOTES & QUERIES; RESOURCES ONLINE; POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS; SHARP NOMINATIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES & COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND; SHARP FINANCIAL REPORT. This issue includes the following contributions: Bibliographical Society of America Archives and History (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); James Esdall, Irish Printer-Bookseller (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); R[esearch]S[ociety for]A[merican]P[eriodicals] Update, by Ellen Gruber Garvey (RESOURCES ONLINE) (pp. 1-2); SHARP Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); History of the Book in Canada Project Open Conference for Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Canadian Library Association, Library History Interest Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 13-17 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) 2001 Conference Rethinking the 19th-Century Press in the 21st Century, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 14-15 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, 3-6 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Printing History Association 25th Annual Conference "On the Digital Brink", Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 4-5); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume 1 (Beginnings to 1840), Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 24-25 November 2000 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); American Historical Association: SHARP Sessions, Boston, MA, 5 January 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Program 2001 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); International League of Antiquarian Booksellers $10,000 Prize for Best Bibliography/Book about Books (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships, 2001-2002 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 6-7); History of Reading Thesis or Dissertation Award (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 8); Gutenberg 2000 at the British Library Guided Tours, British Library, 27 September-13 December 2000 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Toronto Centre for the Book Program 2000-2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (pp. 8-9); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2000-2001, Edinburgh University Library (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 9); Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 8 September-25 November 2000 and Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 11 December 2000-4 March 2001 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 9); Fritz Kredel Centennial Exhibition, Grolier Club, New York, NY, 20 September-18 November 2000 (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 20-22 July 2000, by Patrick Leary (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Material Cultures: The Book, the Text, and the Archive, 28-30 July 2000, by Claire Squires (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); 18th British Book Trade Seminar, 25-27 July 2000, by Paul Morgan (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Thomas Augst, Berry Dongelmans, Ian McGowan (pp. 12-14).