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• W4250999361 abstract "Previous articleNext article FreeThe Bibliographical Society of AmericaMinutes of the Annual Meeting: Friday, 26 January 2018, The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NYPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreReport of the PresidentMartin Antonetti. Mr. Antonetti welcomed the assembled membership to the 113th annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America. This year he promised a departure from the traditional format of a lengthy business meeting followed by a formal lecture in order to offer something more interactive and engaging – a panel on new directions, methods, and subjects for bibliographical inquiry, followed by a period of questions, comments, and discussion. The business portion of the meeting, required by the bylaws, would be pared down to a bare minimum. Those interested in the full committee reports would be able to find them published in an upcoming issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.Mr. Antonetti emphasized that one of the Society’s customs not to be put aside was the honoring of recent exemplary work in bibliography. He then proceeded to announce the 2018 William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. The Mitchell Prize was endowed to honor William L. Mitchell, former librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. The late Alexandra “Sandy” Mason, longtime Spencer Librarian, spearheaded the establishment of the award’s endowment, to which she was the principal contributor. The prize serves as an encouragement to scholars engaged in bibliographical study of eighteenth-century periodicals published in English or in any language, but within the British Isles and its colonies and former colonies. The 2018 prize is awarded to Paul Tankard (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) for Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014). Dr. Tankard’s edition provides a lengthy, insightful introduction to Boswell’s career, strategies, manner, and achievement as a frequent writer for the British press. Although Boswell is well known for his Life of Johnson and several other books, and for his private journals, Tankard’s work reveals Boswell as the “busy professional writer with an almost constant presence in the British press,” to which he contributed over 600 pieces. One member of the selection committee called Tankard’s work “a stunning achievement, a model for future ventures of this kind.” Another judge wrote, “Tankard richly contextualizes the often-obscure historical references and allusions found in Boswell; reading the book hence offers not only acquaintance with an array of hitherto unfamiliar materials but further enlarges the reader’s understanding of the local texture of eighteenth-century life.” Dr. Tankard was unable to accept the award in person, but sent a letter conveying his gratitude and reflecting slyly on the relevance of early newspaper culture in today’s context. Mr. Antonetti read the letter aloud to the audible delight of the room, then extended his congratulations to the author. A cash award of $1000 and a year’s membership in the BSA accompany the prize. The next Mitchell Prize will be awarded in 2020.Report of the SecretaryBarbara Heritage. Ms. Heritage reported that as of 2017, BSA had 487 members, including: 72 contributing members; 4 honorary members; 321 individual members; 50 lifetime members; 24 student members; and 16 sustaining members. This represents an increase of 10 members since last year. As of 2017, PBSA was available in 3,985 institutions and over 120 countries around the world. The circulation includes traditional paid subscriptions and philanthropic subscriptions. In 2017, traditional institutional circulation included 483 subscriptions. Circulation is stable, and the journal has developed and is now maintaining a core group of subscribers. Finally, she reported that the Society had lost four of its members during the course of 2017: Anthony Bliss, Daniel Leab, Barry Levin, and Richard Schimmelpfeng. The membership observed a moment of silence in their honor.Finance CommitteeG. Scott Clemons reporting for Finance Committee chair Michael Thompson. Last year was a good year; BSA’s investment portfolio at the end of the year stood at $3.7 million, up 15% from the end of the previous year. Our gains during the year came up to about $580,000. We withdrew $100,000 from the endowment for operations, so total growth was $480,000. That result nevertheless lagged the benchmark portfolio by about 1%. The Finance Committee met with our managers to review that. Short-term performance is rarely an indication of longer-term trends; committee members are convinced that it is not in this case either. The real decision last year was to weight the portfolio toward smaller capitalization stocks and the equity to smaller companies and value stocks (we continue to retain them and believe that in the long term that will be an engine of growth).Audit CommitteeG. Scott Clemons reporting for Audit Committee chair Joan Friedman. The Audit Committee met with our auditors, Condon, O’Meara, McGinty, & Donnelly, who do the majority of the not-for-profit work in New York. The committee contracted this year for a review rather than a full audit, a simpler and less expensive procedure. A full audit was done last year and our operations are not complicated enough to warrant a full audit every year. Our auditors gave the Society’s books and operations a clean bill of health and at the same time reported a very good working relationship with our officers and Executive Director, as well as the accountants that we use, Demasco, Sena & Jahelka. Ms. Friedman’s report thanked the members of the committee, John Bidwell, Michael Ryan, and Tad Boehmer, as well as Scott Clemons, Barbara Heritage, and Michele Randall for their hard work.Report of the TreasurerG. Scott Clemons. Mr. Clemons reported that the Society is in good shape, and has been for each of the past three years, 2015, 2016, and 2017. We rely on our endowment, as we do every year, but we’ve relied on it to the extent of somewhere between three and four percent of its value, which the Council believes to be a sustainable rate. Council passed a budget that will continue that record of stewardship. For the 2018 budget year we anticipate $75,000 of financial support from dues, contributions, and PBSA, and about $218,000 of spending on overhead, PBSA, fellowships, and prizes, which implies reliance on our endowment to the tune of 3.9%, or within that range. This means that 75% of our budget goes directly toward mission-related expenditures and 25% toward overhead – a balance that allows our endowment to grow and support future needs while at the same time supporting the needs of today. Mr. Clemons thanked Mr. Antonetti for his years of service to the BSA.Report of the Fellowship CommitteeGerald Cloud. Mr. Cloud announced that the committee had considered forty-eight applicants, up three from the previous year. For the first time in his chairmanship, all of the fellowships were awarded – thirteen, including four general BSA fellowships and a travel grant. The fellowship recipients and their projects are as follows: Cathleen Baker, University of Michigan (Emerita): “New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757)” (Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades, $6,000); Richard Calis, Princeton University: “Early Modern Codicology: the case of Martin Crusius” (BSA Short Term Fellowship, $3,000); Anny Gaul, Georgetown University: “From ‘Master of Cooks’ to ‘Fundamentals of Cooking’ : A History of Early Arabic Print Cookbooks” (BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography, $3,000). Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University of Leeds: “James Shirley’s Hyde Park: A Critical Edition” (BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography, $3,000); Soren Hammerschmidt, Arizona State University: “Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and Recycled Print” (ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century, $3,000); Adam Hooks, University of Iowa: “Counting Shakespeare” (Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades, $3,000); S.C. Kaplan, Rice University: “Se livre est a madame de Bourbon’: Agnès de Bourgogne, Duchess of Bourbon (1434–1456) and the Female Cultural Networks of Bourbon and Burgundy in the 15th Century” (BSA Short Term Fellowship, $3,000); Kaja Marczewska, University of Westminster: “Anti-book and 1970s self-publishing practices in the USA” (Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas, $3,000); Julia Mattison, University of Toronto: “The Circulation of French Manuscripts in England” (BSA Short Term Fellowship, $3,000). Alessandro Meregaglia, Boise State University: “Caxton Printers of Idaho and the Development of Regional Publishers in the American West” (BSA Travel Grant, $1,500); Simon Rowberry, University of Stirling: “Digital Publishing Before the Web” (McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States, $3,000). Chet Van Duzer, Independent: “Venturing into Unexplored Bibliographical Territory: Cartographic Cartouches” (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography funded by the Pine Tree Foundation, $3,000); Tali Winkler, University of Chicago: “The Role of Early Modern German Book Fairs in Jewish Economic, Cultural, and Intellectual Life” (BSA Short Term Fellowship, $3,000); Corinna Zeltsman, Georgia Southern University: “Ink Under the Fingernails: Printers and Liberalism in 19th-Century Mexico” (BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography, $3,000). Mr. Cloud thanked the committee and the awards’ funders, and stated his own gratitude for Mr. Antonetti’s years of service.Nominating CommitteeDavid Vander Meulen. Mr. Vander Meulen thanked committee members John Crichton and Claudia Funke for their wisdom and experience, as well as the nominees for carefully weighing and accepting the invitation to serve; he also thanked those who suggested candidates to the committee – a crucial role. The candidates this year are: for President, Barbara Shailor; for Vice-President, Michael Ryan for a second term; for Secretary, Jennifer Lowe; and for Treasurer, Scott Clemons, also for a second term. For Council Class of 2021: Tom Goldwasser; Adam Hooks; and for a second term, Nick Wilding. Michael Suarez is also a member of this class; through some misstep he had been elected last year already, so Mr. Vander Meulen explained (to some laughter) that he had been designated the Society’s first proleptic councilor. The slate was unanimously approved by the Society’s membership.Closing RemarksMr. Antonetti. Wrapping up the Society’s official business, Mr. Antonetti congratulated the newly elected slate and said he was thrilled by the strength of the Executive Committee and Council moving forward under the leadership of Ms. Shailor. He then introduced the program, entitled, “Bibliography in the Expanded Field: New Directions, Future Trends,” featuring panelists Hwisang Cho (Xavier University), David L. Gants (Florida State University), Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Booksellers), and Erin Schreiner (Independent Bibliographer). The lively and varied program was followed by an equally lively reception. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 112, Number 4December 2018 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/700177 © 2018 by the Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article." @default.
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