Bibliographical Society of America
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Monographs
The Society maintains an active publishing program and is responsible for many landmark bibliographical publications. Among these are Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana, continued by Eames and Vail (1936), Margaret Stillwell’s second and Frederick Goff’s third census of Incunabula in American Libraries (1940, 1964), as well as the Supplement to Goff (1972), and C. U. Faye’s and W. H. Bond’s Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962). The Society also supervised preparation and publication of the Bibliography of American Literature (1955–1991).
PBSA
Since 1907 the Society has published the distinguished quarterly journal Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. PBSA features articles and reviews on a rich variety of bibliographical and book history topics, including printing, binding, publication, distribution, collecting, and textual analysis. Individual subscriptions to the journal are available only through membership in the Bibliographical Society of America.
Public Programs
In accordance with its identity as “an international, interdisciplinary scholarly organization that fosters the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats,” the Bibliographical Society of America pursues its mission by hosting public
programs and collaborating with related organizations. The BSA maintains an active supports bibliographical teaching, learning, and scholarship by sponsoring and co-sponsoring sessions at conferences, talks at book fairs, other public events, as well as initiatives by other organizations, societies, and institutions whose interests align with those of the BSA.
Fellowship Program
To support the mission of the Society to foster the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, and in keeping with the value which the Society places on the field of bibliography as a critical interpretative framework for understanding such artifacts, the BSA funds a number of fellowships designed to promote bibliographical inquiry and research. Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from clay tablets and papyrus rolls to contemporary literary texts and born-digital materials. Topics relating to books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration as long as they include analysis of the physical object – that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact – as historical evidence.
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In 2020 the Council passed our Equity Action Plan. The Equity Action Plan (EAP) is intended to address some long-term issues of inequality within our Society and other learned societies in the United States and internationally, and also issues of diversity and inclusion within the practice of bibliography. Issues of inequality have resulted in members of under-represented groups having had fewer opportunities for advancement and support. The scholarship they produce and bibliographical studies of their textual cultures have been overlooked, unpublished or actively discouraged.
For the full text of the EAP please visit our website at https://bibsocamer.org/about-us/the-society/equity-action-plan/
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Bibliographical Society of America
Board of directorsas of 04/26/2024
Kinohi Nishikawa
Princeton University
Term: 2024 - 2026
Megan Peiser
Oakland University
Robert D. Montoya
UCLA School of Education and Information Studies & CalRBS
Mary Crawford
Stanford University
Elizabeth Ott
UNC Chapel Hill
Rebecca Romney
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Alice Schreyer
The Newberry Library
Andrew T. Nadell
Kenneth Soehner
The Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Derrick R. Spires
Cornell University
Patrick Olson
Patrick Olson Rare Books
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