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2012 Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo
Tremaine Medal - Call for Nominations
Canada’s Third National Book Collecting Contest
Canada’s Second National Book Collecting Contest
2012 Conference, Wilfrid Lauruer University
For information about the 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, please see the Conference page.
Tremaine Medal - Call for Nominations
The Marie Tremaine Medal is awarded by the Bibliographical Society of Canada / La Société bibliographique du Canada for outstanding service to Canadian bibliography and for distinguished publication in either English or French in that field. The medal may be awarded in 2012, preferably to a member of the Society and/or a Canadian citizen. Members of the Council of the Society are not eligible for the award while they are in office.
A list of previous recipients may be found here.
The Tremaine Medal Committee now invites nominations for this award. Each nomination must be supported by a biographical note, a list of principal publications, and other relevant information. Complete documentation should be sent by 15 February 2012, to Chair, Tremaine Medal Committee, Bibliographical Society of Canada, c/o Julie Frédette, 130 rue Joseph-Tremblay, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (QC), J2Y 1L9 [email: julie.fredette2@usherbrooke.ca ]. Please note that electronic submissions are preferred.
Canada’s Third National Book Collecting Contest
The National Book-Collecting Contest was created by the Bibliographical Society of Canada to encourage young Canadians to collect books and study the discipline of researching and writing bibliographies. Sponsors this year are the Bibliographical Society of Canada, the Alcuin Society, the W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation, ABE Books, the National Post, CBC Books and Hemlock Printers
Deadline for this third contest is 5 March 2012.
Please help us promote the contest by printing a copy of the poster and
attaching it to your school or library bulletin board (formatted for a
8.5 x 11“ sheet of paper).
Click HERE for further information.
Canada’s Second National Book Collecting Contest
The prizes were awarded to the winning entrants of the second National Book Collecting Contest in both Edmonton and Vancouver in May, 2011. The Alcuin Society has posted pictures of both events.
The first prize went to Justin Hanisch, of Edmonton, Alberta for his collection A History of Fish.
The second prize winner was Gregory Robert Freeman, of Surrey, B.C. for his collection The Tudors & Stuarts.
The third prize winner was Kieran Charles Ryan Fox, of Vancouver, B.C. for his collection Superlative Works from the Subcontinent.
Tremaine Medal
The members of the Tremaine Medal Committee have unanimously recommended
that Professor Peter F. McNally be awarded the Tremaine Medal and
Watters-Morley Prize for 2011. Professor McNally’s career as a librarian and
historian, spanning nearly forty years, has been devoted to the study of
Canadian bibliography and particularly to the study of Canadian
libraries. As writer and as editor, he has contributed to publications
devoted to the dissemination of bibliographical work. He has authored
several dozen articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries on
Canadian bibliography and has made significant contributions to
developing research in this field through his teaching at McGill
University where he has supervised an impressive number of graduate
students working in the field. He was the coordinator from 1981 to 1988,
of the Roundtable on Bibliography, as part of McGill's Canadian Studies
programme, and from 1999 to 2002 Profesor McNally served as President of
the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
Canada’s First National Book Collecting Contest
The prizes were awarded to the winning entrants of the first National Book Collecting Contest at the Annual General Meeting held in Toronto on Wednesday June 24th.
The first prize went to Charlotte Ashley for her collection The Works (and Quirks) of Alexandre Dumas père.
The second prize winner was Vanessa Brown for her collection The L.M. Montgomery Collection in the Forest City.
The third prize winner was Naseem Hrab for her collection The Complexities of Ordinary Life: Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels.
The Bulletin
The Bulletin is published in the spring and fall each year, as the newsletter of the Bibliographical Society of Canada and is distributed to members together with the Papers/Cahiers. Each new issue of the Bulletin will now be made available on the website upon publication. Past issues will be digitized as time permits.
Members wishing to continue to receive the Bulletin in paper form should indicate this on their membership renewal form.