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Notes on Contributors - The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 7:1 The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 7.1 (2006) 121-124

Notes on Contributors

Elly Cockx-Indestege was formerly Keeper of the Rare Book Department in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels. Her research interests range over early printed books, bookbinding in the Low Countries, the reconstruction of the book collection formed by the Duke of Arenberg in the nineteenth century, and an inventory of the productions of the bookbinder Berthe van Regemorter.
Jason Peacey is a Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust. He is the author of Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda in the Civil Wars and Interregnum (Ashgate, 2004), and he has edited The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I (Palgrave, 2001) and co-edited Parliament at Work (Boydell, 2002). He is currently preparing a monograph entitled Print Culture and Political Participation in Britain, 1640-1660.
Duncan Wu is Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow of St Catherine's College. He is the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols, Pickering & Chatto, 1998), and he is currently writing a biography of Hazlitt.

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ONLINE ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY

The Library is now also available in online format, from Oxford University Press, via the web address http://www.library.oxfordjournals.org/. Access to the electronic version comes at no extra charge to members of the Bibliographical Society, and is available to those non-member subscribers who have opted for the combined print and online, or online-only, subscription rates.

Earlier volumes have also been converted to electronic format, and members of the Society now have free access to the complete back run of the journal, which reaches back to the late nineteenth century. Current subscribers via Oxford University Press have electronic access back to 1996.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY

The Society's library, housed at Stationers' Hall ec4 7dd (tel. 020 7248 2934) is normally open on Mondays and Tuesdays, 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., but [End Page 121] members of the Society are advised to telephone in advance to make sure that the Hon. Librarian, Robin Myers, or the Stationers' Company's Hon. Librarian, Keith Fletcher, is in attendance. Members may borrow from the Society's library and are welcome to work in the Stationers' library which includes London livery company and book-trade history which usefully supplements the Society's own collection.

The Society is pleased to announce that the catalogue of its library is now available electronically, via the catalogue of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London (http://www.lib.sas.ac.uk). The new catalogue, containing 3,883 records, can be searched from any computer with web access. Users can search by title; author; keyword; subject; author/title combination; classmark; or isbn. Browsing is also available. Hyperlinks enable maximum retrieval: for example, following a subject search, it is possible to click on the classmark to find other works at the same classmark and hence on the same subject, which, if peripheral, may not have its own subject heading. The main value of the project is of course for members of the Bibliographical Society, but the records should also be useful to a wider circle of users. Greater awareness of the contents of the Society's library can only be welcomed. The fact that books available for reference purposes elsewhere are borrowable from the Society's library makes it of particular value to members of the Society.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY GRANTS

Minor grants

The Fellowships and Bursaries sub-committee of the Bibliographical Society offers small grants of £50 to £200 throughout the year for specific purposes such as travel expenses or the cost of microfilming. Applications for such grants may be submitted on the appropriate form at any time, and should be supported by one referee and a statement that funds are not available from other sources. If the applicant is registered for a research degree, the application should be accompanied by a letter of support from his or her academic supervisor.

Support for student attendance at conferences

Conference organizers are invited to apply at any time during the year for up to £250 in order to support the attendance costs (e.g. travel, accommodation, and conference fee) of one or more postgraduate students (maximum per student £125). The application for these Bibliographical Society Studentships should take the form of a letter explaining the relevance of the conference to the Society's interests, the dates and location of the conference, the structure and content of the programme, and the costs to the students that are to be covered. [End Page 122] Further particulars and application forms are available from the Secretary of the Fellowships and Bursaries Sub-committee, Dr John Hinks, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, Leicester le1 7rh (email: jh241@le.ac.uk).

An invitation to apply for one of the Society's major grants (to be awarded next in February 2007) will be published in the autumn.

FUNDRAISING APPEAL FOR ST BRIDE PRINTING LIBRARY

The St Bride Printing Library, which covers the historical, artistic and technical aspects of printing and related trades from the earliest times to the present day, and which houses unique typefaces, trade artefacts, and printing presses as well as books, is the subject of a new fundraising appeal. It has been short of funds since April 2004, when the Corporation of London transferred ownership of and financial responsibility for the library back to its original guardian, the St Bride Foundation. The appeal for funds, in the shape of the Foundation Benefactor scheme (launched jointly by the St Bride Foundation and the Penguin Group), aims to raise awareness of the Library's urgent need both for immediate funding and for long-term financial support, so that it can continue as a vital resource for leading practitioners and students of typography and design. For further details of the scheme, which is aimed at both individuals and organizations, contact Caragh Stewart, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, ec4y 8eq (Caragh@stbrideinstitute.org; 020 7353 3331).

THE SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS POLICY

The Council of the Bibliographical Society has approved the following statement of the Society's interests, with the particular intention of providing guidance to authors of monographs who may be considering publishing with the Society:

The Bibliographical Society promotes and encourages publications in historical, analytical, descriptive, and textual bibliography. The scope of these has widened in recent years to include the making and use of manuscripts, the history of printing, publishing, and illustration, the study of bookbinding, the history of the book, as well as the history of libraries and the study of provenance, readership, and book collecting. The Society's publications relate to every part of the world and to all periods.

The following eight subject categories provide some specific examples of areas of interest:

  1. Biographical dictionaries of the book trade.
  2. Analytical or historical studies of aspects of the book and the book trade. [End Page 123]
  3. Studies of libraries and collections of bibliographical consequence, with introductions.
  4. Facsimiles and editions of items of bibliographical interest, with introductions.
  5. Manuscript, palaeographical, and textual studies.
  6. Marks in books, including provenance studies.
  7. Studies of books as physical objects (binding, structure, paper, methods of printing, processes of illustration, etc.).
  8. Bibliographical handbooks; bibliographical theory and methodology.


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