[BKARTS] One day conference on book catalogues

[Eric Holzenberg <ejh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

The Grolier Club & the Bibliographical Society of America present
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A one-day conference on catalogues & their uses:

BOOK CATALOGUES, TOMORROW & BEYOND

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008, at the Grolier Club, 
47 East 60th Street, New York, 9:00 am-4:00 pm.

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The conference is in part a follow-up to the 1995 
BSA conference ?Book Cata-logues, Today & 
Tomorrow,? which discussed traditional printed 
book catalogues & their scholarly uses. ¶ This 
present conference will also address the dual 
impact in the past decade of the web & of 
digitization capabilities on provenance & other 
re-search using book catalogues. ¶ The morning 
session will be devoted to reports on projects, 
digitally grounded or otherwise, connected with 
traditional collections of printed catalogues. ¶ 
The remainder of the day will explore the gap 
that has deve-loped since 1995 between the 
millions of books bought & sold solely on the 
web, & the dearth of information about those 
transactions, & the implications of that 
infor-mation gap  for future provenance & other 
research in the history of the book.

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 Speakers will include:

William P. Barlow, Jr.,
on the private collecting of book catalogues.
Giles Mandelbrote, The British Library,
on his revision of Pollard & Ehrman.
Christian Coppens, Katholieke Universiteit 
Leuven, on his ?Census of Printers? & Booksellers? catalogues to 1600.?
Lawrence J. Schoenberg,
on his database of manuscript sales.
Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library, on 
the SCIPIO auction catalogue database.
Maria Hutchison, ABEbooks.com,
on ABE's database of book sale transactions.
David Szewczyk, ABAA, on ?Dealer Catalogues: Dead, Dying, or Thriving??
G. Thomas Tanselle will deliver
concluding remarks.

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The conference is offered at no charge, but space 
is limited, and those wishing to attend should 
contact Grolier Club Administrative Assistant 
Maev Brennan: tel. 212-838-6690, ext. 7, or 
e-mail mbrennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More information 
on the program & speakers will be available 
shortly to those visiting www.grolierclub.org.



Eric Holzenberg
Director
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY  10022
phone: 212/838-6690
fax: 212/838-2445
e-mail: ejh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: <http://www.grolierclub.org/>www.grolierclub.org

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