Introduction
Survey and audit of current e-Humanities research in Australia and internationally
Opportunities for e-Humanities research in Australia
December 2003 workshop
Structure of the proposed Network
Report of the Print Cultures Network
Print Cultures Network: Annotated hyperlinks
Database
List of annotated hyperlinks
Participants in Special Research Initiative Projects
ANNOTATED HYPERLINKS
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[Research-oriented centres and programmes in the UK, US and Continental Europe are listed in this category. Taught and vocationally-oriented publishing and editing courses are listed below.] United Kingdom: Centre for the Book, British Library, London, UK. Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, The Centre is established from the merger of the former Centre for Palaeography and the Research Centre in the History of the Book, and is hosted by the Institute of English Studies for a partnership including the British Library, St Bride Printing Library, the University of London Library, the English Departments of the Universities of Birmingham and Reading and the Open University. The Centre's current areas of interest include: Manuscript Studies - Palaeography, Codicology and Calligraphy; History of Printing; Manuscript and Print Relations; History of Publishing and the Book Trade; Ephemera Studies; History of Reading; History of Libraries, Collecting and Scholarship; Analytical, Descriptive, and Historical Bibliography; Textual Criticism and Textual Theory; The Electronic Book. The Centre aims to develop individual and collective research projects on national and international subjects within Manuscript and Print Studies, and to co-ordinate projects into broader and sustained research programmes. It also intends to create a network among Institutions of Higher Education, libraries and museums that will help identify, secure and catalogue the primary research materials of the subject. It will administer an active conference and seminar programme reflecting both the Centre's and its affiliated scholars' research agenda and interests, and current topical issues. Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in publishing studies, with a focus on industry training. Developing a research culture is a current priority of the Centre. Cambridge Project for the Book Trust , Director: Dr James Raven (Mansfield College, Oxford) Since 1990 the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust (CPBT) has supported seminar series, academic and public conferences, and four major collaborative bibliographical projects, and has funded public lectures and research visits by overseas scholars. Listed with the Cambridge University Development Office, it is a recognised educational trust, with past and present support from colleges at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The CPBT has been the recipient of major grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Council in Germany, and individual benefactors. The Trust is committed to expand and develop both bibliographical scholarship and public interest in the History of the Book. Site conceives of print cultures almost entirely as historical phenomena, with less interest in contemporary publishing cultures. The Centre for the History of the Book (CHB), The CHB was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text -- its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text. Serving a community of over 30 scholars across several university departments, the CHB is today an internationally recognised centre dedicated to the promotion of Bibliography and Book History. The CHB will convene the Material Cultures and the Creation of Knowledge international conference, scheduled for Jul. 2005. Scottish Centre for the Book , Napier Uni, Edinburgh (1995- ) The Scottish Centre for the Book was established in 1995 to enhance and promote the study of print culture in all its forms. SCOB members are active in disseminating their work in internationally recognised and refereed journals, in organising international conferences, in presenting work-in-progress and papers at international conferences both in the U.K. and abroad, and in encouraging and supervising postgraduate work on print culture issues. The Centre has undertaken a number of research projects for which it has been successful in obtaining external funding. Two major themes emerge from these: the use of digital and online technologies to support knowledge and understanding of print culture; and a concern with reading and its contexts. SCOB perhaps runs second to the Edinburgh Uni centre in profile and funding, though Alistair McCleery is co-editor of the standard textbook in the discipline, The Book History Reader (Routledge, 2001). The Centre for Publishing Studies, The Centre principally teaches a coursework M.Phil in Publishing Studies with an emphasis on industry training, though it also has some research presence. The research carried out in the Centre for Publishing Studies has four principal focuses:
The Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History (CWPPH), The Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History has been set up to foster collaboration between Reading University Library and departments within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities that undertake research in aspects of book, publishing and printing history. Further collaboration has taken place between the University and members of the printing and publishing industry. The Centre's particular strengths are in economic and quantitative book history, printing history, publishing history and in the history of readers and reading. The University has an unrivalled collection of printers' and publishers' archives housed in the University Library. The learned journal Publishing History is based in the Centre. Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR), The Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research is a new academic group, established within Cardiff University's School of English, Communication and Philosophy. The Centre's facilities combine traditional scholarly skills - such as bibliography and textual editing - with recent developments in Information Technology, multimedia authoring, and online publishing. To this end, the CEIR website will form the focal point for details regarding research tools available within the Centre as well as news of ongoing projects and postgraduate courses in a variety of interdisciplinary schemes. North America: Center for the Book (CFB), Library of Congress, Washington DC. Director: John Y. Cole. The CFB was established in 1977 to use the resources and prestige of the Library of Congress to promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy. Outside the Library, the center works closely with other organizations to foster understanding of the vital role of books, reading, libraries and literacy in society. On behalf of books and reading, the Center for the Book serves as an advocate, a catalyst, and a source of ideas--both nationally and internationally. Its major themes and interests are reading and literacy promotion, the role of books and reading in today's society, the international role of books, the recognition and celebration of America's literary heritage, and the history of books and print culture. The catalytic function of the center has expanded with establishment of a broad network of national and international organizations and programs that promote books, reading, and libraries including several centers for the study of the history of the book located in academic or research organizations. The Centre for the Study of Books and Media, The primary purpose of this Center, established in 2002, is to promote research and teaching in the history of books; but it will include other media as well. In fact, book history, as it has now come to be known, involves a great deal more than history and books. Having developed from the convergence of many disciplines around a common core of problems, it extends to the study of textual transmission in all modes, whether printed or manuscript, visual or oral, in all times and places. The Center will concentrate on books in the Western world from the Middle Ages to the modern era. It will bring together faculty from many departments in order to stimulate research, discuss work in progress, and develop courses at all levels of instruction. It also will coordinate activities with similar centers both in this region and abroad, and it will work closely with a corresponding group of scholars at Oxford as part of the Oxford-Princeton Partnership. Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, AAS established the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture in 1983 in order to focus its resources on promoting an emerging field of interdisciplinary inquiry. Through the Program, AAS draws not only on its traditional resources as a center of bibliographical research and as a matchless repository of early American printed materials, but also on recent intellectual currents that look at the history of books and other printed objects in their full economic, social, and cultural context. In providing intellectual leadership of this field, the Program has sponsored conferences, publications, seminars, and research fellowships. A significant goal of the Program is the publication of a five-volume, collaborative scholarly work, A History of the Book in America , which treats the subject from the early seventeenth century to our own times. Bibliographical and historical in focus, cf. The Wisconsin-Madison Center (below). AAS collections stop in 1875. Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, The Center's objective is to help determine the historical sociology of print in modern America in all its culturally diverse manifestations. As a joint program of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it is designed to: encourage the interdisciplinary study of print culture history on campus and serve as an interdisciplinary focus for research on print culture by scholars of modern America throughout the country from diverse fields; facilitate research into the valuable print culture research collections owned by both library systems; stimulate research in the print culture collections of groups whose gender, race, occupation, ethnicity and sexual preference (among other factors) have historically placed them on the periphery of power; function as a clearinghouse for information on print culture research and scholars concerned with the history of modern America; work with the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress and with various state centers for the book; raise funds for scholarships, fellowships, and lecture series to assist the study of modern American collection reflecting the history of print culture; aid in the development of an international perspective on print culture in modern America. In contrast to SHARP, the Center's focus is mostly 20thC and after, and it defines print cultures broadly to include magazines, posters, comics, ephemera etc and the socio-cultural networks through which they circulate. University of Iowa Centre for the Book (UICB), Iowa City, USA UICB primarily represents a community of faculty, staff, students, and local book specialists with diverse interests in all facets of book production, distribution, and use. Some members of the UICB actively research the history of the book, examining the role of books in cultural and historical processes and the way in which changes in book production affect the way books are viewed as artefacts. Specialists in the arts and technologies of the book study the history and technique of the book crafts, including letterpress and offset printing, typography, calligraphy, papermaking, and bookbinding. Still other specialists engage in the conservation or the production of books, including artists' books and literary fine press publications. The UICB offers classes in book-related topics, hosts lecturers, sponsors conferences, publishes a newsletter, and encourages the exchange of ideas among individuals with interests in the book. Center for the History of the Book Seminar, The Institute for Advanced Study is sponsoring an on-going, bi-weekly interdisciplinary faculty and advanced graduate student seminar on the History of the Book, with the definition of "book" taken very loosely to mean any kind of text, be it a codex or anything else. As the subtitle to the seminar suggests, the focus will be on the physical production of texts of any sort and how they are received or perceived by their original (and subsequent) audience(s). This focus is intended to involve us in discussion of a wide-ranging group of related issues, such as how material forms affect the meaning (or at least the understanding) of given works, how canons are formed, patronage and its effect on works of art, literacy and how one determines what constitutes it, the history of reading, changes in the dominant media in a given culture. Penn State Center for the History of the Book, The Center for the History of the Book is part of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book at Penn State. It runs a lecture series annually and acts as an archival and resource centre. Toronto Centre for the Book (TCB), Uni of Toronto, Canada The Toronto Centre for the Book has been established in order to bring together faculty, librarians, students and members of the general public who are interested in the past, present, and future of the book and in all aspects of the creation, diffusion, and reception of the written word. The Centre will seek to play a co-ordinating role in relation to interested institutions, groups and individuals by:
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Founded in 1987, Simon Fraser University's CCSP is a university/industry initiative dedicated to the development of publishing in Canada and internationally. Our special focus is on books, magazines and electronic media. Advised by a board of industry professionals, the CCSP has implemented a Master of Publishing program, an undergraduate Minor in Publishing and professional development programs. Our faculty and staff publish the Canadian Journal of Communication , undertake academic and contract research, organize and host national and international seminars and conferences, and consult widely on publication design, industry structure and innovative technology. As well, the CCSP administers the Canadian Publishers' Records Database and Citation, a collection of Internet resources of significance to the Canadian publishing industry. Appears to be more industry-focused in its activities, much like the Oxford Brookes course. Continental Europe: Institut d'histoire du livre (IHL) / The Institut d'histoire du livre organises conferences, seminars and the Book History Workshop with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary framework for research in the various fields involved in the study of graphic communications such as the history of technology, economic history, art history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and information science. In Jul. 2004 the IHL will host the annual SHARP conference, under the theme 'Crossing Borders'. Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC)/ Institute of Contemporary Publishing Archives , Caen, France Created at the end of 1988, upon the initiative of researchers and professionals engaged in publishing studies, and opened as in Spring 1989, the IMEC manages archives and studies linked to different actors of the 20th Century writing and book world: publishers, writers, intellectuals, artists, book traders, journal editors, journalists, critics, literary agents, translators, printers, graphic designers... The importance of the collections brought together by IMEC makes it one of the most prestigious documentary source centres of the contemporary French literary papers. Living witness of the book trade, of publishing and of writing production, this inheritance - up to now inaccessible and mainly unpublished - will permit a decisive development of academic researches in the 20th century intellectual, artistic and literary domains, their institutions, networks, economy and products. The aim of IMEC is not only to preserve the publishing and creation patrimony; as well as gathering this dispersed patrimony, this institute intends to present it directly to a large audience, by developing various activities: research, exhibits, publications, symposiums, seminars. Leiden Centre for the Book, Leiden University, The Netherlands (1997- ) Director: A. H. van der Weel The Centre's brief is to strengthen existing book historical research and teaching at Leiden University and to encourage new initiatives. The Centre hosts researchers and lecturers active in a variety of European and non-European book historical disciplines. From university central funds a Dfl.1.1m project grant was assigned in support of the Centre, in order to give the Leiden book studies a new, stronger and more interdisciplinary base, comprising teaching, research, and the institution of the Electronic Text Centre. As of the academic year 1999-2000 an extensive book studies programme is being offered under the auspices of the Leiden Centre for the Book. Gutenberg Institute for Book and Media Sciences / Institut fur Buchwissenschaft , Uni of Mainz, Germany The Gutenberg Institute at the University of Mainz, Germany, offers an academic education on the history of books, printing, and writing as well as on the current developments on the book market and in the new media system. At the Gutenberg Institute the full scope of subjects related for example to the ancient book, the development, spread, and impact of printing in early modern times, the typography in modern presses, and the introduction of electronic media is read. In other words, the study of the history of the book faces the many questions of the cultural history of man's knowledge and ways and means of imparting it. The analysis of the history in general and of transition times in particular, such as the media change from role to codex and the development of printing with movable types through Johannes Gutenberg, shall help to understand any kind of development of the book trade of modern times. |
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History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) - (1993-) At the 4Rs editing conference at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU in April 1994 a session on the History of the Book in Australia was included and the committee met afterwards; and later in 1994 another well-attended seminar was held at the State Library in Victoria in conjunction with a BSANZ conference. The project has since held its own major conferences in Sydney (1996), Melbourne (1997) and Sydney (1998). The publication of a 3-volume collaborative history of printing culture in Australia has been projected. UQP will be the publisher. The project is supported by a Large ARC grant. Martyn Lyons (History, UNSW) is the Executive Editor. 3 vols. [Eds. Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby, Martyn Lyons, John Arnold, Craig Munro, Robin Sheahan-Bright] (UQP) Vol.II Published as HOBA: A National Culture in a Colonised Market (2001) Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) ASAL promotes the study, discussion and creation of Australian writing. It also seeks to increase awareness of Australian writing in the wider community and throughout the world. ASAL holds an annual conference and maintains a directory of postgraduate research on its website. ASAL's self-definition is national and literary rather than book-history focused, though it regularly hosts research informed by book history/print cultures approaches. Australian Publishers Association (APA, formerly ABPA) Industry association primarily concerned with lobbying, copyright, GST and industry profile-raising issues. Though APA does offer the John Curtain Educational Editorial Fellowship for editorial training. Australian Society of Authors (ASA) 'The Australian Society of Authors is the professional association for Australia's literary creators. The ASA was formed in 1963 to promote and protect the rights of Australia's authors and illustrators, and now has almost 3,000 members across Australia. The ASA sets minimum rates for pay and conditions for authors and illustrators, and publishes books, papers and lists for emerging and established writers. Members receive our journal, the Australian Author , and regular newsletters throughout the year. We provide a contract advisory service, run mentorships for new and emerging writers and offer advice about writing, copyright and publishing.' Key national body representing authors, though ASA often adopts a somewhat adversarial stance towards publishing industry (e.g. in its Book Contracts guides) Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) SHARP was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book historians, who until then had usually worked in isolation. SHARP now has over 1000 members in over 20 countries, including professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars. Each year SHARP holds an annual conference that brings many of these scholars together for stimulating discussion of an enormously wide range of issues. Annual international conferences : London (2002), Claremont, CA (2003), Lyons (20-24 Jul. 2004). http://ihl.enssib.fr/siteihl.php?page=131&aflng=en Regional conferences:
SHARP-L: archive of SHARP listserve (CFPs, conference announcements, debates etc.) SHARP News (quarterly newsletter) [Ed. Sydney Shep, VUW] American Printing History Association The American Printing History Association was founded in 1974 to encourage the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history. |
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AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway, housed at UQ (subscription-based) AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between eight Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 67 000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day. AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic sources. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. Researchers, Bibliographers and Librarians, working around the country, gather information about Australian writers and writing, providing authoritative information on and facilitating access to Australian literature. AustLit's mission is to enhance and support research and learning in Australian literature. The Australian Research Council and the University partners have contributed substantially to development funding. Resources for ongoing development are provided by the Universities and from subscription income. OzLit These are the main pages of OzLit (Australian Literature). Here you will find all of our pages pertaining to Australian Literature including our Fully Searchable Books & Writers database for which we still maintain the original hypertext index and listing of Australian writers. A growing percentage of this database is sent to us by writers -- many of whom also include contact addresses as part of the information. All Australian writers are invited to keep us informed in order to keep records up to date. We are proud of the fact that OzLit is a tool to help promote Australian literature, both nationally and internationally. We believe that more than 50% of our users are from other countries. Comprehensive though quirky amateur site re all things Australian, especially literary in focus. Classic Australian Works series (CAW), Sydney University Press This collection features books that should always be available for readers and students as part of our national cultural heritage. These works retain their influence and impact, the richness and quality of their writing, and their importance as a record and reflection of Australian life and perspectives, but have disappeared from traditional publication. An initiative of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), working with writer members, Classic Australian Works is supported by the Australian Society of Authors, the National Library of Australia, and the University of Sydney (Library and University Publishing Service). The works were selected following a survey conducted by the Australian Literature Gateway of university teachers and scholars who were asked to nominate significant works of Australian literature which needed to become more widely available. These works will be searchable as part of the SETIS Australian Literary and Historical Texts collections. SETIS: Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service, USyd Library SETIS provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily but not exclusively source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts, the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects. The networked texts are sgml-encoded texts converted on the fly to html for display. Many of these are commercially licensed texts and available only to users at the University of Sydney. The primary purpose of SETIS is to provide a scholarly electronic publishing and digital library platform to support and further the programs and goals of the University and the Library. SHARP-Web: archive; CFPs; messageboards; listserve threads; annual conference programmes etc. [see above] HoBo: History of the Book UK hubsite HoBo currently aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all UK seminars, lectures and conferences related to the history of the book; it also includes some European and (in the case of the annual SHARP conferences) American events. A list of recently added events is provided on the Stop Press page; full details of the events themselves are available on the Events page. The Diary offers a week-by-week listing of forthcoming events, with links to further details on the Events page; all dates on the Events page are also linked to the relevant weeks in the Diary. Originally Oxford-based, UK-centric hubsite. Its focus is chiefly historical bibliography, rather than contemporary print cultures. Book History Online (BHO), hosted by National Library of the Netherlands BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. The database contains 28,200 records. The files can be searched by names of authors, editors, title words (including periodicals), classification, geographical keywords, names of persons (printers, publishers etc.), firms and institutions, and by subjects and words in annotations. Subjects covered by BHO: all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries, and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books, and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment. New York Public Library online guide to resources in The NYPL has a world-renowned collection of physical artefacts documenting the historical development of written forms of communication. While the General Research Division has a long-standing tradition of collecting supporting material in the book arts that traces the evolution of the book and its production, the Division also concerns itself with the material that describes the intellectual, economic, and cultural impact of this evolution on the surrounding society. At present, the format and transmission of text is in the greatest period of flux since the invention of movable type and printing. At the same time, the study of the history of books is achieving legitimacy as a multi-disciplinary scholarly pursuit. The guide attempts to provide direction to the appropriate source material within the division. The Print History Project: Wellington's Book Trade 1840-2000, This website features the lives, businesses, and works of those many printers, publishers, booksellers and other book trade personnel who contributed to the print landscape of Wellington from 1840-2000. Through five snapshots which represent technological changes in the industry, we offer you a glimpse into the richness of this area of study and encourage your contributions and feedback. This digitisation project is a collaboration between Victoria University of Wellington's New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, Wai-te-ata Press, and the University Library's J.C. Beaglehole Room, plus local archives, libraries and institutions. It has been funded through a generous Special Grant by the Trustees of the National Library of New Zealand. St Bride Printing Library online catelogue The St Bride Printing Library is one of the specialist public reference libraries of the Corporation of London. Its world-famous collections cover printing and related subjects: paper and binding, graphic design and typography, typefaces and calligraphy, illustration and printmaking, publishing and book-selling, the social and economic aspects of the printing, book, newspaper and magazine trades. The Library's catalogue is available online as part of the Bookhad website, a co-operative effort with five higher-education institutions, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme, supporting nationwide research in book history and book design. A bibliographically-oriented collection, rather than a socio-cultural one, though useful, especially for historical subjects. Book History Postgraduate Network Register of Research in Progress (see below for BHPN) Co-ordinator: John Hinks, Uni of Birmingham The BHPN maintains a Register of Book History Research. The register aims to include current and recently completed research in all areas of book history. It has commenced quite recently and is rather 'thin' at present. Please ensure that your current or completed research is included. Register is predominantly of pre-20th century print cultures studies. Little re contemporary publishing, book industries or media. Publishing Courses Around the World hubsite This list was compiled, mainly as a result of an Internet search, because no such list appeared to be available from any existing source. I hope it will be useful, but it may well be incomplete; in particular it may under-represent courses outside the Anglophone world. Useful aggregation of (mostly PG) publishing education options, though now somewhat out of date (at least vis-à-vis Aust.) Project Gutenberg, free electronic text database (1971 - ) Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. The premise on which Michael Hart based Project Gutenberg was: anything that can be entered into a computer can be reproduced indefinitely. . .what Michael termed "Replicator Technology". The concept of Replicator Technology is simple; once a book or any other item (including pictures, sounds, and even 3-D items can be stored in a computer), then any number of copies can and will be available. Everyone in the world can have a copy of a book that has been entered into a computer. The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search. History of Publishing Website, Oxford Brookes Publishing course The website gives an introduction to publishing history in Britain from the 15th century to the early 20th century. Each section of the website provides an introduction to the print and publishing history of a period and then summarises different theoretical interpretations of the role of print in society. A chronology for each period is provided, together with a guide to further resources - printed and online. This website's main purpose is to support the Contexts of Contemporary Publishing Module, 5209, for undergraduate students. However, it is designed to be accessible and relevant to students engaged in different areas of publishing studies. History of the Book disciplinary hubsite Details history of the discipline, graduate courses, professional societies, list-serves, libraries, journals and various other references sources. Compiled by Claire McGuire for Reference Sources in Humanities and Social Sciences, Rutgers University. Last Updated 12/5/01. The Book & The Computer online symposium (US-based) Website exploring the future of the printed word in the digital age. With a rich, varied past and a troubled present, book culture faces an array of critical choices in the globalised future. Our symposium examines the diverse legacies of the book and the many pathways it may now travel. Nineteenth-Century Books on Publishing, the Booktrade and the Diffusion of Knowledge This important collection brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive library of materials for the history of publishing in the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic changes in printing techniques and publishing practice, not only in the established centres of publishing in Britain, but in British territories throughout the world. The collection therefore documents, for the benefit of a growing number of scholars interested in booktrade history, developments in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Burma and Malaysia, as well as in Britain. It includes texts on every aspect of the manufacture and distribution of books, magazines, newspapers, prints and maps. The rapid growth of libraries of every kind in the century was a significant development which ran parallel with the pressure for mass education, and the collection includes published catalogues, now our only source for determining shifts in taste and the distribution of popular literature. The collection comprises over 700 texts. |
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Early-career research development Fellowships: Yale University Library Special Collections Humanities Fellowship, Non-stipendary Visiting Research Fellowships, The Institute of English Studies provides an institutional base for scholars actively pursuing research in London and the scheme can assist those seeking sabbatical leave from their own home institutions. Throughout their period of affiliation, our Visiting Fellows can use the University of London Library at the Institute's expense and use our name as their contact and reference point during their stay. The IES is the lead institution for the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies and this may be of benefit to fellows during their time here. All the Institute requires is a report from the Visiting Fellow at the end of the stay in order to show the benefit and results of the Fellowship. An opportunity will be found, if possible, for a fellow to present a paper at the end of their stay. Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh The David Laing Fellowship has been established in order to encourage the scholarly use of libraries in Edinburgh, in particular the Special Collections of Edinburgh University Library. The Fellowship provides the annual recipient with a stipend of £1000 and is held in association with Edinburgh University Library. Postdoctoral fellowshipsCenter for the Study of Books and Media, http://www.sharpweb.org/princeton.html History of the Book in Canada, Uni of Toronto, 2-yr postdoc (offered in 2000) http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing- Postgraduate scholarshipsUniversity of Reading postgraduate studentships (2004-) http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Studentships/arts.htm Postgraduate networksBook History Postgraduate Network (BHPN) (1998-) (UK-centred) The aims of the Network are:
The Network also maintains a Register of Book History Research (see above). [The most significant infrastructural support for UK book history/publishing studies postgrads]. Publishing Research List (Pu-R-L) (mostly Oz and NZ PGs) Monitored email listserve for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers in the field of print cultures - conceived broadly. Much more inflected by cultural studies/Australian studies/book design/feminism than its UK counterpart, and more contemporary than historical in scope. Members do not hold conferences, but meet at relevant Australian conferences (eg. SHARP regional meets). |
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National History of the Book projects History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) - (1993-) At the 4Rs editing conference at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU in April 1994 a session on the History of the Book in Australia was included and the committee met afterwards; and later in 1994 another well-attended seminar was held at the State Library in Victoria in conjunction with a BSANZ conference. The project has since held its own major conferences in Sydney (1996), Melbourne (1997) and Sydney (1998). The publication of a 3-volume collaborative history of printing culture in Australia has been projected. UQP will be the publisher. The project is supported by a Large ARC grant. Martyn Lyons (History, UNSW) is the Executive Editor. 3 vols. [Eds. Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby, Martyn Lyons, John Arnold, Craig Munro, Robin Sheahan-Bright] (UQP) Vol.II Published as HOBA: A National Culture in a Colonised Market (2001) Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (7 vols), Cambridge UP The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain. History of the Book in Scotland (4 vols), Edinburgh University Press To be published in four volumes by Edinburgh University Press, A History of the Book in Scotland is a major scholarly project whose aim is to investigate the history of the production, circulation, and reception of Scottish texts from earliest times to the present. History of the Irish Book Project, University of Ulster, Coleraine To be published in five volumes by Oxford University Press in 2005, A History of the Irish Book is an entirely new and original undertaking in writing and scholarship. It will be of lasting value to the communities of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and beyond. Undertaken jointly by the University of Ulster at Coleraine and the Queen's University of Belfast, A History of the Irish Book is of profound importance for the understanding of Ireland's written and printed heritages over the last 1500 years. The fact that it embraces all the written and printed traditions and heritages of the island, and places these in a global context, gives it deep cross-cultural significance. It is jointly edited by the project leaders, Professors Robert Welch and Brian Walker. History of the Book in America project, American Antiquarian Society A History of the Book in America treats the subject from the early seventeenth century to our own times. An Editorial Board of distinguished scholars, chaired by David D. Hall, oversees the series, which is being published by the American Antiquarian Society and Cambridge University Press. Volume 1, subtitled The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, was published in 1999. The remaining four volumes are expected to appear by the middle of the first decade of the new century. Substantial funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided major support for the editorial work on this important project. History of the Book in Canada (6 vols), Uni of Toronto Press / Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal Developed by a team of historians, literary scholars, librarians, and information specialists, a History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada defines Canada's place within an international network of book history studies. HBiC/HLIC was funded in 2000 under the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The five-year project will publish six volumes (three in English, three in French) in conjunction with the University of Toronto Press and Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. Databases supporting scholarship in book history will also be compiled and made available on the project web site. The seven editors, coordinating research from six universities across Canada, welcome collaboration with new and established scholars. Digital Projects - Australian-based Authenticated Electronic Editions , based at ADFA The Authenticated Electronic Editions project will produce robust, flexible, long-lasting and readily accessible electronic editions of textual works. A particularly innovative part of the project is the development and use of Just In Time Markup (JITM). This is designed to solve a major problem associated with electronic texts: the maintenance of the integrity of the core text while it is being proliferated, translated across platforms, manipulated, supplemented and analysed. In this way, JITM ensures ongoing textual integrity. It is particularly appropriate where a document needs to be annotated but remain absolutely unchanged. The JITM system even allows simultaneous annotation by different people who can maintain their own annotations separately or consolidate them. One of the unique features of the JITM system is its support of conflicting structural markup. Classic Australian Works series (CAW) , Sydney University Press [See above] SETIS: Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service , USyd Library [See above] |
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C-2-C: Creator to Consumer in a Digital Age, The Creator-to-Consumer research and industry development project is one of the most comprehensive and most significant international efforts to envision the future of the book in the context of radical changes in the publishing supply chain. The project is a joint effort of RMIT University and Common Ground Publishing. Major funding is from the Infrastructure and Industry Growth Fund (IIGF), Book Production Enhanced Printing Industry Competitiveness Scheme (EPICS) Grants, Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, with significant supporting funding coming from RMIT and Common Ground. An introductory, overview project was completed in May 2001. The main result of this work was the introductory book, C-2-C: Creator to Consumer in a Digital Age , or Book 1 in the Creator to Consumer series. Since, then, the project has focussed on three major areas (technology, markets and skills). Book and Other Publishing in Australia, This Class consists of units mainly engaged in publishing books, sheet music, maps or other printed articles. Units are included if their main source of income is the sale of advertising space in their own publications. Market forecast to 2007-08. The Australian Book Industry: Challenges and Opportunities, The report examines the major trends affecting the industry, utilising industry-wide data to help build a shared understanding of current challenges and opportunities. It also explores alternative future scenarios to highlight the options and choices to be made. These scenarios provide vivid pictures of the alternative futures available to the Australian book industry, ranging from the intimidating to the inspiring. The report argues that a joint industry approach to supply chain reform would dramatically lower the overall cost structure of the industry. Greater collaboration and consolidation offer opportunities worth approximately $155 million. Adopting this approach would shift the basis of competition in the Australian book industry away from supply chain activities, towards customer acquisition and satisfaction. By focusing intensively on customers, the industry could shift gears from "survival" to "growth" and accelerate into a positive future. [Almost exclusively business-oriented report with minimal consideration of cultural issues at play.] |
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Book History Book History is a new scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. The journal will publish research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, the book arts, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. The journal is open to all disciplines and methodologies, and it will consider articles dealing with any literary culture and any historical period. It is sponsored by SHARP and published by Penn State University Press as a hardcover annual. Publishing History A scholarly journal published by Chadwyck-Healey devoted to the socio-economic and literary history of book, newspaper and magazine publishing. This specialist bi-annual journal covers the whole spectrum of publishing from the author to the reader, and contains scholarly articles; memoirs by contemporary publishers; conference papers; archive listings; and reviews, annotations and fascimile reprints of important documents relating to the history of publishing. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Convergence is a refereed academic paper journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. As a research journal it provides a forum both for monitoring and exploring developments and for publishing vital research. Published quarterly in paper form and adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, Convergence will develop this area into an entirely new research field. Submissions are welcome on multimedia, gender and technology, satellite and cable, control and censorship, copyright, electronic publishing, the Internet, media policy, interactivity, education and new media technologies, screen interfaces, virtual reality, technology and arts practices, sound/music and new technologies, media theory etc. Studies in Bibliography Each year Studies in Bibliography presents a wide range of scholarly articles on bibliography and textual criticism. Founded by Professor Fredson Bowers of the University of Virginia, Studies made its first appearance in 1948 as Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia , a title that changed to its familiar form the following year. Within its first decade Studies in Bibliography established itself as a forum for the best textual and bibliographical work being done anywhere in the world, a role it seeks to maintain under the editorship of Bowers's successor, David L. Vander Meulen. |
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International Conference on the Future of the Book, The Second International Conference on the Future of the Book will be held in Beijing, China, from 29-31 August 2004. The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the future of the book, as well as its past and the state of the book industry, books and reading today. Main speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the areas of publishing, editing, librarianship, printing, authoring and information technologies, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and practitioners. This is a conference for any participant in the world of books: authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers. Proceedings of 2003 conference held in Cairns published as International Journal of the Book , vol. 1 (2003/4). |
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Australia: Macquarie University, Macquarie University's postgraduate program in Editing and Publishing consists of three components: Certificate, Diploma and Masters Degree. The Postgraduate Certificate (available online and on campus) is the first step, and can be credited toward the Postgraduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing (available on campus only). The Master of Arts in Editing and Publishing can be taken either on campus or in distance mode. It is available to students who have completed the Macquarie Postgraduate Diploma or an equivalent course elsewhere. Students who have completed the Postgraduate Certificate with distinction may also be accepted into the Masters program. University of Technology Sydney, The Graduate program in Writing is designed to meet a range of needs for people who want to start a career in writing and for experienced writers wanting to further develop their theoretical knowledge and skills. Graduates of this course will have general skills in creative writing in fiction or non-fiction and a critical knowledge of cultural and aesthetic debates. They will be able to develop and critically revise their own and others' work and will be aware of the place of writing within contemporary cultural formation. They will also have developed specific industry-based skills in book editing and publishing. Monash University, The National Key Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University has an active teaching and research program in vocationally-oriented areas of the Humanities. Since 1996 it has taught programs in Publishing and Editing at postgraduate level. Through graduate coursework programs the Centre has produced high quality students with appropriate skills, equipping them for publishing and communications careers. Many Monash graduates are now employed in these fields. Centre staff also supervise thesis-based masters and doctoral students in these areas. University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, The explosion of text-creating and publishing opportunities in the 21st century workplace has created accelerated demands on writers and editors. The Graduate Certificate in Arts (Writing, Editing, and Publishing) program provides academic and professional development in the theory and practice of communication. It offers graduates the opportunity to hone their writing, editing, and publishing skills in both academic and corporate arenas for enhanced career paths in the technology-intensive knowledge economy. Queensland University of Technology, This program provides skills and knowledge in print and electronic publishing, desktop publishing and manuscript development, publishing industry processes and dynamics. It complements the Creative Writing postgraduate programs and articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Creative Industries (Creative Writing). International:Drew University, NJ, USA, Broadly speaking, book history is the entire history of written communication -- the creation, diffusion, and uses of script and print. It is concerned not just with books per se, but with all kinds of documents including newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, and ephemera. It encompasses the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, publishing, printing, the book arts, copyright, censorship, book selling, libraries, literacy, literary criticism, and reading. As we become increasingly aware of the importance of information in society, book historians are casting new light on the communication through the written word, from cuneiform to the Internet. |
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