CFP: Collectors and Collecting: Private Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections and their Role in Libraries
Conference to be held at Chawton House Library, Hampshire, UK, 19-20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department, and Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.
NOTE: No deadline given...please email below contacts for more information.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-the role of rare books and manuscripts collections within the context of the libraries where they are now accommodated
-the way in which libraries manage an individual’s collection
-the act and process of private collecting
-the motivation of the individual collector
-the book or manuscript as artifact in the context of private collections
Plenary speakers are Reg Carr (Director of University Library Services and Bodley's Librarian at the University of Oxford), Robert H. Jackson (Collector, author, and lecturer on literature, rare books, and collecting; founding member of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies), James Raven (Professor of History, University of Essex) and Bruce Whiteman (Head Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, University of California - Los Angeles).
Gail McCormick
Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204
Helen Scott
Chawton House Library
Chawton, Hampshire, UK GU34 1SJ
Email: gail.mccormick@goucher.edu; helen.scott@chawton.net
