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As a field of inquiry, bibliography understands texts as artifacts – like books, manuscripts, fragments, tactile texts, image-based texts, digital texts, and more – that reflect the people and cultures that created them.

08/19/2026

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for an event in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 2 November for events between February and May 2027

Learn more & apply 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

08/17/2026

🚨One month left to apply to the 2027 New Scholars Program!🚨 Each year, three New Scholars receive a cash award of $1,000, a $500 travel stipend and the opportunity to present their work.

BSA membership is not required for New Scholars Program applicants. Link in bio to apply by 16 September 2026.

08/13/2026

📜Call for Proposals 🚨 The Events Planning Sub-Committee is seeking proposals for sessions centered on the tools and methodologies of bibliographical work, to take place during BSA’s Annual Meeting in January 2027.

View the full CfP and submission instructions: 🔗https://bit.ly/cfp-tools-trade-27

08/11/2026

We are excited to share that Dana Katz, recipient of a 2026 BSA Short Term Fellowship, has also been awarded a prestigious research fellowship from the American Trust for the British Library (ATBL)! Learn more about Dana and her project by swiping through the images.

08/06/2026

By popular demand! The custom letterpress notebooks from our Spring Sprint Fundraiser were such a hit that we wanted to make more available.

A limited number is now up for grabs, so style up your school year and support BSA's programming. Get yours today for just $25.

🔗 https://bit.ly/journals26

07/30/2026

The submission deadline is just 2 weeks away for the Mitchell Prize for research on British serials! 📖🏆

Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award 💵of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.

Link to learn more and submit in bio 🔗

07/15/2026

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Élika Ortega's book, Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from Across the Americas 📖

Read Indica Mattson's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741429

07/13/2026

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Deborah Parker's book, Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters, and Erica Ciallela and Philip Parker, eds., Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy 📖

Read Dorothy Berry's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

07/10/2026

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Vanessa Warne's book, By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture 📖

Read Amanda Stuckey's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741485

07/08/2026

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Rebecca Romney's book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend 📖

Read Stuart Bennett's full review in the June 2026 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗

🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741511

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