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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