Step into the world of rare books and manuscripts at the 66th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair! 📚✨ Join one of BSA's two exclusive guided tours, where you'll meet esteemed BSA-member booksellers and delve into the art of book collecting. Newcomers are warmly welcome!

👋 Join the BSA Events Planning Committee for a special opportunity to explore the NYPL's collections on 1 May! If you will be in New York for the ABAA Book Fair, we hope you will join us 📚 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

We are pleased to share this announcement of the publication of "Incunabula in Maltese Libraries," co-edited by 2022 Peck-Stacpoole Fellow Dr Anna Scala! For a limited period, the book may be purchased at a special discounted price: https://bit.ly/scala2022 #Bibliography #Research #Fellowships

👋 Join the BSA for a guided tour of the 5 College Bunker in Amherst, MA on 20 April! The tour will be followed by a reception. This in-person event is organized by the BSA Events Planning Committee. 🔗Link in bio for details and to register (required - cap at 25) – we can't wait to see you there!

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this hybrid symposium, organized in part by 2026 New Scholar Mindi Zhang, bringing together librarians, archivists, and curators across the country to discuss their ongoing work with East Asian and Southeast Asian collections. 🔗Link to learn more in bio

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this live performance of Hildegard von Bingen chants preceded by a talk by the Eastman School of Music's Dr. Honey Meconi on the connection between the chant manuscripts and their performance. Free and open to the public! 🔗Link to learn more in bio

We want to express our gratitude for the support we received this year from our members, partnering professional organizations and learned societies. All of these bookish folks support the work of ethical selling, studying, and preserving of rare materials and we encourage you to explore their work.

More thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting! We want to shout out to our sponsor institutions who spread appreciation of books and ephemera and make them more accessible to the public, whether through education, publications, or collections and exhibitions. Thanks for all you do!

Many thanks to the generous sponsors of our Annual Meeting in January! In this post we're highlighting our bookseller sponsors. Please check out their rare book and ephemera offerings by visiting their websites and shops!

The 2026 Keynote Lecture from the BSA Annual Meeting is now available to all on our YouTube Channel! Dr. Benedict's engaging lecture explores how piracy has not only shaped the circulation of global literature in Latin America, but also become a constitutive feature of its publishing ecosystem.

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required. 🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Print the Okanagan, featuring Jason Dewinetz of Greenboathouse Press and Clare Thiessen of broke press, who will discuss their processes of printing and creating books from the perspective of being the sole operators of independent presses in the Okanagan

Congratulations to the 2026 Mercantile Prize winner, Laura Helton, and honorable mention, Katie Mitchell! 🏆 Swipe through the images to learn more about their winning book projects, and check out our YouTube channel to see the formal presentation of the award at the 2026 Annual Meeting last month!

Our colleagues at the Center for Book Arts are offering a Book Arts Research Fellowship - deadline to apply is 28 Feb. CBA offers BSA members reciprocal benefits including discounts on classes and hourly studio rentals. Learn more & apply: 🔗https://centerforbookarts.org/book-art-research-fellowship

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support the Text & Textuality Symposium at Bryn Mawr College next month! The symposium features two days of lectures and panels, including keynotes by Jesse Erickson (The Morgan Library & Museum) and Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania).

Thanks to the support of the BSA, Michael Johnston spent two months in the UK during Summer 2024 analyzing manuscripts of The Prick of Conscience. His time there has supported two ongoing projects. Scroll through the images below to learn more about Michael's research! #Bibliography #Research

PBSA is always open for submissions! Email [email protected] for info. ✒️📑📖

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 1 April (7 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Kathy E. Ferguson's book, Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture 📖 Read Anna Regener's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738704 #BookReview #Bibliography

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Robert D. Hume's book, Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700 📖 Read Nicholas D. Nace's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738702 #BookReview #Bibliography

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Michelle O’Callaghan's book, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation 📖 Read Daniel Traister's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738703

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands: The East-European Connection, and Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books: Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project 📖 Read Elizabeth Savage's full review in the Dec 2025 issue. Link in Bio🔗

📝Reviewed in PBSA: Mitchell A. Codding and John O’Neill, eds., Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library: An Exhibition Curated by Mitchell A. Codding and John O’Neill 📖 Read Linde M. Brocato's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗 #BookReview #Bibliography

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: Notebook and/or Network: The Bibliographical Note in the Future 📖 Learn more in Amanda Watson's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738883

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: The Tabby Cat of Bibliography 📖 Learn more in Rhiannon Knol's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738982

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: The Bibliographical Note in the History of English Studies 📖 Learn more in Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: The Emergence of the Bibliographical Note 📖 Learn more in @jsench.bsky.social's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: What Is a Bibliographical Note? 📖 Learn more in @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738983

Join us on Thursday 22 January at 11am for an in person, guided tour of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's centennial exhibition, 100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity. Registration is required and limited to 20 participants - link in bio 🔗 #BibWeek26

📖 New Evidence in the Printing History of Louis Renard’s Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes 📖 Learn more in Justin Hanisch and Theodore W. Pietsch's Bibliographical Note in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗

Attend Clara Shaw's virtual presentation of her talk, "Printing for the People: The Neolith a Lithographic Magazine 1907-1908" on Thursday 15 January at 6:30pm Eastern! Clara is the 2026 D.F. McKenzie New Scholar and will also present at the 2026 BSA Annual Meeting on 23 January in NYC.

Attend Cassandra Gillig's virtual presentation of their talk, "I Have Stone Butch Blues: Tracing the Publication Lineage of a Trans Bestseller" on 14 January at 6:30pm Eastern! Cassandra is the 2026 Jacob Blanck New Scholar and will also present at the 2026 BSA Annual Meeting on 23 January in NYC.

Attend 2026 Malkin New Scholar @mindyzhang.bksy.social's virtual presentation of his talk, "Biblio-Internationalism: Chinese Rare Books and Transpacific Alliance between the National Library of Beiping and the Library of Congress" on 13 January at 6pm Eastern!

Attend the #BibWeek26 orientation session! Held online, our orientation session provides an overview of this mainstay in the book world, taking place at the end of January each year. Coming this year? Join us! Thinking about coming some time in the future? This is the great way to learn more!

📖 The Publishing History of The Water-Babies: A Description of the Macmillan Editions (1863–1928) 📖 Learn more in Jan Marten Ivo Klaver's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738485

Our annual party @nysoclib.bsky.social is an opportunity for members to gather in a historic library, catch up with old friends, and meet new ones! Meet your fellow members and learn more about our organizations and the many resources we have to offer to the broad community of book people.

📖 Bibliography after Empire: Documenting and Classifying Knowledge in the Tenth-Century Muslim World: The 2025 BSA Annual Meeting Keynote 📖 Learn more in Ahmed El Shamsy's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗

📘The December issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now! All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition. https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits

Join us on  Wednesday 21 January at 2pm for an in person tour of the Hispanic Society Museum & Libraries exhibition - Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700 - led by the curator, Amanda Wunder! Registration is required and limited to 25 participants. #bibweek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Purloined Letters" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Anne Peale share her research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Mysterious Publication Histories" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Tom Hillard share his research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Bibliographical Lore" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Lisa Fagin Davis share her research! @lisafdavis.bsky.social

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Mysterious Publication Histories" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Meredith Ivey Santaus share her research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Bibliographical Lore" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Brandon Layton share his research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Purloined Letters" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Eric Rossborough and Nathan E. Bender share their research!

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Mysterious Publication Histories" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Alexander Baert Young share his research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each featuring 3 presentations and a group Q&A.  Choose "Bibliographical Lore" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear Yueying Li share share his research! #BibWeek26

Returning to the 2026 Annual Meeting: morning workshops! This year's program will feature 3 synchronous panels, each followed by a Q&A. Choose "Purloined Letters" on your Annual Meeting registration to hear @iulillylibrary's Samantha Foster and @folgerlibrary's Erika Giddens share their research!

We are so proud of the 2026 New Scholars! Congratulations to Cassandra Gillig, Clara Shaw, and Mindi Zhang.  Can't make it to New York for their live presentations on 23 January 2026? Join us for virtual talks the week of 12 January (check back for exact dates/times and registration info).

Join us for #BibWeek26! And stay tuned for more information about our weeklong program. The 2026 Keynote lecture, "Erle Stanley Gardner and the Case of the Mexican Pirates" will be delivered by the @universityofga.bsky.social's @norabenedict.bsky.social  #bookstagram #bookhistory #bibliographyweek