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Greta Golick Award Winner for 2023

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Stephen Webb has been awarded the Greta Golick award. The award is named in honour of Dr. Greta Golick (1956-2018) to support the education of graduate students and early career researchers by providing funding to facilitate their participation in the Society’s annual Conference. Stephen is a PhD candidate in the department of English and Film studies at the University of Alberta, where he researches book history, print culture and authorship in the Romantic period, with a particular focus on Lord Byron’s library. The Conference Committee were particularly impressed with Stephen’s abstract “’All the Books here enumerated’: Databasing Lord Byron’s Personal Library and Visualizing Deformations of Byron’s Books,” which seeks to recreate the hierarchies and connections inferred in the organization of Lord Byron’s library.

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Graduate Student Merit Award Winner for 2023

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Ayla Morland has been nominated for the BSC-SbC’s Congress Graduate Student Merit Award, which includes a grant of $500. Ayla Morland is a recent graduate of the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto, where she will start her PhD program this fall. The Conference Committee were impressed by Morland’s intersectional approach to studying the library of Dr. Ursula Franklin. Ayla will present a paper at the BSC annual Conference, which will examine and analyze Franklin’s book collection through a feminist historiography lens.

Ayla will be invited to publish a revised, article-length version of her Conference paper in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, subject to peer review.

2023 Bernard Amtmann Fellowship Awarded

The members of the Fellowships Committee are very pleased to announce that Manuel Medrano has been awarded the Bernard Amtmann Fellowship for 2023 for his project, “Book History beyond the Page: An Andean Khipu in the McGill University Library.”

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2023 Marie Tremaine Fellowship Awarded

The members of the Fellowships Committee are very pleased to announce that Sarah Pelletier has been awarded the Marie Tremaine Fellowship for 2023 for her project, “’Neither boy nor man’: Transnational Dimensions of Gender(ing), Race, and Labour in the Nineteenth-Century North American Typographical Trade and Press, 1850-1914.”

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Graduate Student Merit Award Winner for 2023

The Bibliographic Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Rachel Burlock has been nominated for the BSC-SbC’s Congress Graduate Student Merit Award. Rachel is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta in the department of English and Film Studies. The awards Committee was impressed with Rachel’s research, which was foregrounded in community history book from a rural settlement in Manitoba.

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Congratulating the BSC-SbC Emerging Scholar 2023

The Bibliographic Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Megan Butchart has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Prize for 2023. Megan is a recent Master of Arts graduate in English from the University of Alberta.  The Awards Committee was particularly impressed with her multi-layered research project that focused on the southern literary magazine South Today (1936-1945), which paid particular attention to readership. The committee felt this approach brought an important and dynamic dimension to their analysis of the anti-racism activism undertaken by the magazine’s editors within and beyond its pages.

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Documenting Social Movement: Bibliography, Archives, and Protest

Documenting Social Movement: Bibliography, Archives, and Protest
March 6, 2023
10am PT/1 pm ET/ 6pm BST

Despite working under precarious and hostile circumstances, oppressed groups have produced an enduring archive of records and media that document their struggles. Preserving and accessing these materials poses various challenges. When collected at all, surviving documents are scattered across multiple collections of personal papers or organizational records in one or more repositories. To address this and other concerns, community-based institutions have been founded, with explicit mandates to collect such materials. Posters, pamphlets, and other protest ephemera have also increasingly been sought by academic libraries. Join us for a presentation by representatives from collecting institutions in Canada, England, and the United States of America who will discuss the history, status, and vitality of their social movement collections. Pre-recorded talks by representatives from three institutions will be followed by a live, moderated discussion.

This presentation is sponsored jointly by the Bibliographical Society (UK), the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada and will be presented in English, with captions in both English and French. Presentations will be broadcast on YouTube Premier, but registration is required to attend the discussion.

Please find the registration page here.

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