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From: Erin Schreiner <erin.schreiner(a)bibsocamer.org>
Date: Thu, May 9, 2019 at 10:05 AM
**Please Share Widely**
The Bibliographical Society of America, The Bibliographical Society (UK),
and Maggs Bros., Ltd. are proud to co-sponsor a panel to be held at Maggs'
Bloomsbury shop on June 3, 2019 at 6:30pm. The event will coincide with the
Ephemera Society Fair, just before the opening of the PBFA London
Antiquarian Book Fair.
This event is free and open to all; registration is required as seating is
limited to 45. You may register to attend with up to 2 guests here:
https://www.memberplanet.com/events/bsa/towardinclusivebibliography
*Toward Inclusive Bibliography*
Bibliography implies community. It focuses on understanding the creation
and circulation of texts as physical objects; and implicitly recognizes
that behind each surviving object, no matter how small, there are
communities at work: booksellers and collectors, volunteers saving a local
organizers' flyers in their closets, the curatorial staff at a museum. Yet
at the same time, bibliographical teaching and scholarship have
historically focused on a narrow range of materials and creators, even
while broadening in chronological range and subject matter. Having centered
a canon defined by Western European values, the discipline has built a body
of knowledge in which large gaps remain to be filled, especially regarding
groups kept outside of centers of political and institutional power on the
basis of their race, ability, class-background, gender identity or sexual
orientation, or any combination of these factors.
This panel aims to highlight the work of people filling those gaps, with
the explicit intention of demonstrating how bibliographical scholarship and
practices can be channeled toward a more realistic understanding of
historic and contemporary relationships between people and texts. Our
conversation looks to expand bibliographies and the communities they
connect by broadening our view of who does bibliography, and how.
Panelists Eyob Derillo (British Library
<https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/02/african-scribes-manuscript-culture-of-ethiopia.html>),
Hudda Khaireh (Thick/er Black Lines artist collective
<https://thickerblacklines.com/>*/OOMK <http://oomk.net/>*) and Brooke
Palmieri (Camp Books <https://www.campbooks.biz/>), offer perspectives
from traditional sites of bibliographical practice – the bookshop, the
library, and the academy – as well as from marginalized or minority groups
working as "bibliographers" on their own and for themselves. This panel
aims to fill gaps not only by enumerating and analyzing more material, but
also by including and recognizing new voices and perspectives in the
conversation. Fuchsia Voremberg (Maggs <https://www.maggs.com/>) will
moderate.
*Please note also that **the floor of Maggs on which the event will be held
is not wheelchair accessible*, and entry requires 15 steps either up or
down. The event will be recorded by video and posted to YouTube, and anyone
who cannot attend in person can email bsa(a)bibsocamer.org to be notified
when it is published online.
Erin Schreiner
Executive Director
The Bibliographical Society of America
erin.schreiner(a)bibsocamer.org
www.bibsocamer.org
*Click here <http://mp.gg/63k1j> to j**oin us or renew your BSA membership!*
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