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BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year 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 Grolier Club meetings and events are open to
members only, but otherwise 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.
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Tuesday, January
24
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At Butler Library, Columbia
University, 116th Street & Broadway: The
Twelfth Annual Book Arts Lecture: ______, on
"_____." Lecture: 6:00 p.m., [Faculty Room, Low
Library?] Reception to follow: Rare
Book and Manuscript
Library, Butler
Library, 6th Floor, East, to view "_____." For more
information, please call Jennifer B. Lee at
212-854-4048. To RSVP, please call
212-854-4768.
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Wednesday, January 25
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At the Grolier
Club:
Grolier lunchtime buffet. After lunch, Steven
Escar Smith, Director & Wendler Professor,
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas
A&M University, and 2004 Grolier Fellow, will
give a lecture on the results of his researches
into _______. Luncheon noon to 2:00 pm, lecture 2
to 3 pm. The
lecture is open to all,
but
the
luncheon is
open to Grolier Club members and their guests
only.
At the Grolier
Club:
Opening reception of an exhibition on "The
Extraordinary Life of Charles Dickens" from the
collection of Bruce J. Crawford (click
here for an online
virtual exhibition of Mr. Crawford's collection.)
Opening 5:30 pm; business attire;
Grolier
members and their guests only at the reception, but
please note that the exhibition will be open to the
public Tuesday-Friday, 1-5 pm, January 26-March 10,
2006.
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Thursday, January
26
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At the Grolier
Club: The
122nd Annual Meeting and Dinner.
Grolier Club
members only, please.
At Booklyn,
37 Greenpoint Avenue, 4th Floor, Greenpoint,
Brooklyn: Make the trip to Booklyn Artist
Alliance for a "Please
Touch the Art"
exhibition of
contemporary artist books ranging from the
photocopied and stapled to the letterpressed and
handbound. Also: bookbinding demonstrations,
refreshments, and conversation with Booklyn artists
and staff. The event runs from noon to 8 pm.
Booklyn is located in the up-and-coming arts
neighborhood of Greenpoint-Brooklyn's Little
Poland--just north of Williamsburg, and just
minutes from Manhattan. Please call 718-383-9621 or
click
here for
directions.
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Friday, January
27
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At Christie's,
20 Rockefeller Plaza: The annual meeting of the
Bibliographical
Society of America.
Papers from new scholars at 2:00 pm, meeting at
4:00 pm. Speaker: David Pearson, Director,
University of London Research Library Services, on
bookbinding studies and provenance research.
Reception follows.
At the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue
at 25th Street: Opening reception for a special
Bibliography
Week Book Fair. The
$10 admission is good for both days, Friday 5:00
pm-9:00 pm, Saturday 11 am-5 pm.
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Saturday, January
28
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At the New
York Public
Library,
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Trustees Room, 2nd
floor: The annual meeting of the
American
Printing History
Association. 2:00
pm; reception follows.
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At the
Grolier
Club:
A memorial gathering for Mary
Ann O'Brian Malkin (1913-2005),
collector, scholar, patroness and valued
friend of Rare Book School, the Grolier
Club, and other bookish organizations, who
died on August 2, 2005 at the age of 92.
Immediately following the APHA annual
meeting, ca. 5 pm.
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At the Center
for Book
Arts, 28 West
27th Street, 3rd floor: Center for Book Arts
Winter Open House--see free demonstrations by CBA
Artist Members and instructors, and try some simple
bookbinding, printing and paper decoration
techniques yourself. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. You can
also visit the current exhibition, "________,"
featuring ________. Call Amanda Stevenson at (212)
481-0295 for more details. Information on other
Center for Book Arts programs can be found on their
website.
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