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Yes! It has just been uploaded to our YouTube channel: youtu.be/qFpVFbd7PSk
The video from our Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Apostolic Library is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/qFpVFbd7PSk
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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Alessandro Bianchi has chosen AGORHA, a suite of thematic databases bringing together digitised documents, archival sources, and biographical records relating to individuals, collections, and institutions in France:
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This important work about the British Museum Library is now available open access here - doi.org/10.23636/t2s...
Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖
For further information and to book a place, see www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bibliograp...
The session will be led by Giles Bergel (Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford) and Christopher Ohge (Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London).
... about record linking and querying, the uses of data visualisation and computer vision in bibliography; and good practice in data management.
The workshop will provide an overview of current digital bibliographic methods and resources followed by a hands-on introduction to some key skills, where participants will learn how to process and clean bibliographical data ...
On Friday 13 March, an in-person training day in digital methods for bibliographical study has been arranged by the Institute of English Studies and the Bibliographical Society, in association with the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester who will host the event.
Our host is Dr Stephen Metzger of the Manuscripts Department. For this very special occasion, please join us online by registering at this link:
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A live discussion and Q&A will follow. This visit is made possible by the generous consent of his excellency Abp. Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church, and the Rev. Mauro Mantovani, SDB, the Library’s Prefect.
Often viewed principally as a repository of manuscripts, it preserves much more, including printed books, graphic prints, and coins and medals. The virtual visit will take place on Zoom and will begin with pre-recorded introductions to the library’s history, its departments and its collections.
On Tuesday 3 March 2026, at 15.30 GMT, the Bibliographical Society will travel virtually to the Vatican Apostolic Library. Founded in 1450 by Pope Nicholas V to promote Humanistic studies, the Vatican Library is one of the world’s most famous libraries.
There is no need for you to register if you are joining us in person. To attend online, please register for the event here:
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Drawing on bibliographical evidence gathered from hundreds of original copies along with information gleaned from extant publishers’ ledgers, this talk will trace the early editions of the works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë during their first three decades in print.
Although Jane Eyre has never gone out of print, not all of the Brontë sisters’ works enjoyed such a wide readership at their outset.
Dr Barbara Heritage, of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, will take as her title ‘Staying in Print: The Brontës, 1846-1876’.
The fourth meeting of our 2025/2026 season will take place on Tuesday 17 February 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, and online via Zoom.
Bring along your data or challenging use cases - whether that’s card catalogues that need converting into machine-readable format, texts to transcribe and structure (in any language or script), or images to analyse - and help put ArCH to the test. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hands-on-w...
Our friends at Cambridge University Library are hosting the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub on 20 March.
For this month's Council's Choice, Joseph Hone highlights the Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700):
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Our friends at UCL are hosting an event examining how archives, libraries, and museums underpin a functioning democracy: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
The Library is the journal of The Bibliographical Society. For more than a hundred years it has been the pre-eminent UK scholarly journal for the study of bibliography and of the role of the book in history.
We are pleased to share that The Library, @bibsoc.bsky.social, will be published by Liverpool University Press from 2026!
➡️ Find out more over on the LUP blog: bit.ly/TheLibrary-LUP
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And bursaries are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Please join us for a joint event with the Institute of English Studies on 3 February: ‘Shelf Improvement: How to Collect and Present a Prize-Worthy Book Collection’. What makes a good collection, how to craft a winning entry, and how to avoid potential pitfalls.
We are having technological troubles with internet at the Society of Antiquaries and tonight’s lecture will likely not be broadcast online. Our speaker will be recording his talk at a later date.
There is no need for you to register if you are joining us in person. To attend online, please register for the event here:
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