The image features two spiral-bound notebooks positioned diagonally against a black background with a bright pink border. The left notebook is white with the text "The Bibliographical Society of America" printed vertically along the side. The right notebook is light purple with the embossed title "Bibliocurious" across the cover. Below the notebooks, against a black background, are bold, white texts promoting a fundraiser.

Pink text on a white background announcing a spring fundraising appeal for the Bibliographical Society of America, including different ways to donate.

Our Spring Sprint Fundraiser has launched! As a special thank you to early donors, the first 50 people who contribute $125 or more by 11 May will receive a limited-edition letterpress notebooks, specially commissioned to celebrate our commitment to the book as both a craft and an object of study.

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The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

#TalkAboutHumanities

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📖 Manuscript Collecting as Social Prestige in Quattrocento Italy: The Case of Tommaso Spinelli 📖

Learn more in Carson Koepke's article in the March 2026 issue of PBSA.

Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗

🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740105

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We are now accepting submissions for the Mitchell Prize for research on British serials! 📖🏆

Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award 💵of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.

Link to learn more and submit in bio 🔗

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Black text on a lime green background. Partial table of contents for the March 2026 issue of PBSA, including three articles

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📘The March issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now!

All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition.

https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits

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The image contains a text block on a plain white background. The text is formatted with a standard black font, except for specific collection names that are highlighted in pink. It provides information about an event focused on exploring the collections at The New York Public Library. It mentions curators and librarians from three specific collections who will display and discuss items from the NYPL. The concluding lines encourage readers to register, noting a limit of 25 participants.

🚨UPDATED TIME 👋 Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us 📚

🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there

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The image contains text describing an event featuring exhibition curators Josh O’Driscoll and Frank Trujillo, who will speak on the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy. The text is presented in bright pink against a white background.

Join two curators from The Morgan Library & Museum, Joshua O’Driscoll & Frank Trujillo, for a conversation about the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy and the cards’ ongoing relevance as a source for artists.

Learn more at the link in bio
#NYIABF26 | #AntiquarianBookFair

The image features a promotional graphic for the 66th Annual New York ABAA International Antiquarian Book Fair set against a bright magenta background. A three-dimensional representation of a book stands upright on the left side of the image. The book's cover is designed to look like a bookshelf filled with vintage books, and it prominently displays white text with event details. To the bottom right, a white circular sticker with black text states, "Registration required!"

The image features pink text on a white background. It provides details about a walk-through event organized by the BSA, focusing on meeting member booksellers. The announcement indicates that participants will have the chance to learn about the book trade and best practices. The event includes two tours. The first tour on Friday starts at 3 pm Eastern and is led by M.C. Kinniburgh from Granary Books. The second tour on Saturday begins at 1 pm Eastern led by Kyle Triplett from NYPL.

Step into the world of rare books and manuscripts at the 66th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair! 📚✨ Join one of BSA's two exclusive guided tours, where you'll meet esteemed BSA-member booksellers and delve into the art of book collecting.

Newcomers are warmly welcome!

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The image contains a text block on a plain white background. The text is formatted with a standard black font, except for specific collection names that are highlighted in pink. It provides information about an event focused on exploring the collections at The New York Public Library. It mentions curators and librarians from three specific collections who will display and discuss items from the NYPL. The concluding lines encourage readers to register, noting a limit of 25 participants.

👋 Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us 📚

🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

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The top is a gray rectangle containing text about an exhibition. It includes the names of compilers and editors and mentions that it is published by Viella Editrice in Rome. Logos of Malta Libraries and the National Library of Malta are at the bottom left, and a QR code is on the right with accompanying text encouraging scanning for event details. The bottom has text in a white background, in black and magenta fonts, detailing the event held at the National Library of Malta in Valletta.

The image is a textual announcement about the launch of a publication on incunabula collections in Maltese libraries. The main text is in black, with some parts highlighted in pink. The announcement discusses a book launch event, its sponsors, and mentions notable speakers. The event is supported by entities like Malta Libraries and The Bibliographical Society of America. A web link is provided for purchasing the book at a discounted rate.

We are pleased to share this announcement of the publication of "Incunabula in Maltese Libraries," co-edited by 2022 Peck-Stacpoole Fellow Dr Anna Scala!

For a limited period, the book may be purchased at a special discounted price: https://bit.ly/scala2022

#Bibliography #Research #Fellowships

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The image contains text formatted in black and pink against a white background. The text discusses a Cold War bunker that has been repurposed as a storage site for books and journals of the Five College Library Repository Collection. It invites readers to join a tour of the facility hosted by the BSA Events Planning Sub-Committee. The text emphasizes that registration is required and limited to 25 participants, with this information highlighted in pink.

👋 Join the BSA for a guided tour of the 5 College Bunker in Amherst, MA on 20 April! The tour will be followed by a reception. This in-person event is organized by the BSA Events Planning Committee.

🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

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The image is a text-based announcement with a white background. The text is in a bright pink color and provides information about a symposium that gathers librarians, archivists, and curators. The event focuses on East Asian and Southeast Asian collections, addressing challenges like digitization, material preservation, and collaboration with Asian institutions. It consists of a hybrid roundtable with speakers and a hands-on session featuring rare books from UCLA Library Special Collections.

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this hybrid symposium, organized in part by 2026 New Scholar Mindi Zhang, bringing together librarians, archivists, and curators across the country to discuss their ongoing work with East Asian and Southeast Asian collections. 🔗Link to learn more in bio

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The image consists of text in bright pink on a white background. It announces an event related to the BSA Events Committee in Rochester, NY. The text describes a collaboration with the annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, featuring the ensemble Schola Cantorum performing chants by Hildegard von Bingen. Dr. Honey Meconi will introduce the performance with a talk on the historical context and the significance of the manuscripts.

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this live performance of Hildegard von Bingen chants preceded by a talk by the Eastman School of Music's Dr. Honey Meconi on the connection between the chant manuscripts and their performance. Free and open to the public! 🔗Link to learn more in bio

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We want to express our gratitude for the support we received this year from our members, partnering professional organizations and learned societies. All of these bookish folks support the work of ethical selling, studying, and preserving of rare materials and we encourage you to explore their work.

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Azure text on a white background listing the library and publisher sponsors of the 2026 BSA Annual Meeting, as well as information about viewing program recordings on YouTube and finding links to sponsor website on the BSA and BibliographyWeek sites.

More thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting! We want to shout out to our sponsor institutions who spread appreciation of books and ephemera and make them more accessible to the public, whether through education, publications, or collections and exhibitions. Thanks for all you do!

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Azure text on a white background listing the bookseller sponsors of the 2026 BSA Annual Meeting, as well as information about viewing program recordings on YouTube and finding links to sponsor website on the BSA and BibliographyWeek sites.

Many thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting in January! In this post we're highlighting our bookseller sponsors. Please check out their rare book and ephemera offerings by visiting their websites and shops!

Azure background with a black and white image with white headline text below. Dr. Nora C. Benedict speaks at a podium in front of an audience, with a projected image of a a cover of a book by Eric Stanley Gardner featuring a horse. Transcribed Text: 2026 Keynote Lecture “Erle Stanley Gardner and the Case of the Mexican Pirates,” delivered by Nora Benedict is now available on YouTube!

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The 2026 Keynote Lecture from the BSA Annual Meeting is now available to all on our YouTube Channel! Dr. Benedict's engaging lecture explores how piracy has not only shaped the circulation of global literature in Latin America, but also become a constitutive feature of its publishing ecosystem.

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Pink text on a white background with information about the Queer Bibliography in the South hybrid conference from 12 to 14 March 2026

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required.

🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

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Pink text on a white background with information about the Print the Okanagan event at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus on 21 March 2026

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Print the Okanagan, featuring Jason Dewinetz of Greenboathouse Press and Clare Thiessen of broke press, who will discuss their processes of printing and creating books from the perspective of being the sole operators of independent presses in the Okanagan

A photo of Laura Helton - wearing a gray checkered blazer and glasses, smiling in front of a stone wall - below a header with "St. Louis Mercantile Prize Winner" in pink text on the top line, and "Laura Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Book Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" in black text on the second line

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A photo of Katie Mitchell - in glasses, a yellow turtleneck, and denim overalls, sitting among books, looking upward thoughtfully - below a header with "St. Louis Mercantile Prize Honorable Mention" in pink text on the top line, and "Katie Mitchell, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" in black text on the second line

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Congratulations to the 2026 Mercantile Prize winner, Laura Helton, and honorable mention, Katie Mitchell! 🏆

Swipe through the images to learn more about their winning book projects, and check out our YouTube channel to see the formal presentation of the award at the 2026 Annual Meeting last month!

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Our colleagues at the Center for Book Arts are offering a Book Arts Research Fellowship - deadline to apply is 28 Feb. CBA offers BSA members reciprocal benefits including discounts on classes and hourly studio rentals.

Learn more & apply: 🔗centerforbookarts.org/book-art-research-fellow...

The image is a promotional graphic for a symposium titled "Text & Textuality" at Bryn Mawr College. The upper portion features white text over an out-of-focus black and brown background resembling keyboard keys. Dates and times are specified for Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, along with the location, Old Library 224. The lower portion is a bright pink background with white text reiterating event details and emphasizing that no registration is required.

Pink text on a white background with information about the Text and Textuality Symposium at Bryn Mawr College in March 2026.

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support the Text & Textuality Symposium at Bryn Mawr College next month! The symposium features two days of lectures and panels, including keynotes by Jesse Erickson (The Morgan Library & Museum) and Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania).

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Thanks to the support of the BSA, Michael Johnston spent two months in the UK during Summer 2024 analyzing manuscripts of The Prick of Conscience. His time there has supported two ongoing projects.

Scroll through the images below to learn more about Michael's research!

#Bibliography #Research

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PBSA is always open for submissions! Email pbsa@bibsocamer.org for info. ✒️📑📖

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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 1 April (7 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

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📝Reviewed in PBSA: Kathy E. Ferguson's book, Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture 📖

Read Anna Regener's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738704

#BookReview #Bibliography

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📝Reviewed in PBSA: Robert D. Hume's book, Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700 📖

Read Nicholas D. Nace's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738702

#BookReview #Bibliography

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📝Reviewed in PBSA: Michelle O’Callaghan's book, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation 📖

Read Daniel Traister's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738703

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📝Reviewed in PBSA: Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands: The East-European Connection, and Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books: Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project 📖

Read Elizabeth Savage's full review in the Dec 2025 issue. Link in Bio🔗