Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/

I always remember @iangadd.bsky.social telling me about that opening trick from his classes-- but I also recall his paper on dog-earing at the 2015 @sharpweb.org conference sharpweb.org/wp-content/u...

Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books? view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...#books? On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social

🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...

How is everyone's @sharpweb.org #SHARP2025?! #BookHistory

Such an impressive group of finalists for the @sharpweb.org book history prize… …and extra congratulations to prize recipient Martin Paul Eve for his “Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History”! #SHARP2025

So delighted that Martin Eve’s Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History has won the @sharpweb.org book prize!! #BookHistory #SHARP2025 📚

THIS IS EGALITY! Because of the all-genders bathrooms at @urochester.bsky.social, *guys* have to queue to go pee during coffee breaks at #SHARP2025 like us girls!

Thanks to everyone posting from #sharp2025 into the blue skies. I am reading your posts, and I appreciate that you are doing this. #bookhistory for the win.

hey #SHARP2025 good news, I have started work on my slides for my presentation that starts in *checks notes* 48 hours

Printing a broadside at #sharp2025 This is a reproduction of The North Star, 1848 from Frederick Douglas, originally printed about a mile away in Rochester, NY.

Over at today's @sharpweb.org conference, @wlupress.bsky.social co-authors Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires stopped by and are pictured below with their book The Frankfurt Kabuff. #SHARP2025

Kathy Walkup and Crystal Z Campbell speaking @sharpweb.org for Keynote 2 on Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop and Press. Joan Lyons, founder and past director, seated with Scott McCarney, Megan N Liberty and Tate Shaw.

The BOOK HISTORY editors are here in Rochester at the @sharpweb.org conference and ready to answer your questions or help you with any issues you might have missed! #bookhistory #sharp2025

Visit our unstaffed table at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing conference in Rochester, NY to learn about our journals and grab some giveaways. Can't make it in person? Discover our journals here: ow.ly/kt2050WkuHG @sharpweb.org

Getting my presentation on 1990s zines & small magazine distributors ready for the #SHARP2025 conference next week, super excited to be part of a zine panel.

Starting #SHARP2025 with @amoreshead.bsky.social on the early 20th century origins of the "credibility bookshelf"-- relevant to the library of fake books covering HVAC ducts at the ISAW Library @isawlibrary.bsky.social

Two great things about the keynote at #SHARP2025: - the speaker was chosen from the proposals submitted - there are sign language interpreters! Since there are other live-tweeters, I'll do my own interpreting by posting in French... #SHARP25

Heading to #sharp2025. It is my first time attending, so please talk to me.

If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon! #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social

#sharp2025 first keynote is Katie Mitchell's Prose to the People, an incredible book of Black book history

Hello everyone! I am attending #sharp2025 and I have permission to tweet the first panels today. Up first is Anastasia Armendariz who is presenting about Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections. If I tweet, it will be in a thread here.

Make sure to tag us in your @sharpweb.org Rochester posts! We wanna see it what ya'll are up to! Safe travels to everyone heading to Rochester. We hope you have a blast!! #BookHistory #SHARP2025

SHARP News will soon need a new Editor in Chief - meet with Andie at @sharpweb.org in Rochester to chat!

We'll miss you @andiesilva.bsky.social! And, yes, come join the amazing @sharpnews.bsky.social team. So much exciting, timely work being published by a great group of folks!

Revisiting my research notes on @tropy.bsky.social in Bogotá, in my LONG journey to @sharpweb.org's 2025 conference! #bookhistory

@sharpweb.org #SHARP25 Special offer on all titles in the Cambridge University Press & Assessment Elements in Publishing and Book Culture series to celebrate next week's SHARP conference! 20% off! See lnkd.in/e8DyPynu

🤓For those of you attending #SHARP2025 (or those experiencing FOMO at home), please join our Discord server: discord.gg/ne8TYwMtGQ. You can also find a guide to joining and navigating the server here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-vVz...

Dear SHARPists attending the conference in Rochester in person: is anyone driving from Montréal or via Albany? Could I ride with you? Dear @sharpweb.org, could you launch the Discord server so we could find such ride sharing or roommate opportunities? #SHARP25

Idk if this is going to reach the right folks, but I’ll be at the SHARP conference in July (Rochester) and happy to chat about our Studies in Print Culture & the History of the Book and/or our Page & Screen series here at @umasspress.bsky.social! Be in touch.

Heading to @sharpweb.org in Rochester this summer? Take advantage of this chance to chat with a UMass Press editor!

Has anyone seen any good writing challenging the use of the term "independent publisher" for presses that are distributing around the world and in major corporate market places, physical and digital? I'm curious to read more about how this term is being harvested for trendy readership aesthetics.

A number of American organizations and institutions (including many publishers) suffering abrupt funding terminations from the National Endowment for the Arts (via Seagull Books): docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Tripped across *Critical Race Theory in LIS: Challenging White Supremacy in Libraries* (2025) ed. by Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Nicole A. Cooke, Aisha M. Johnson, & Anastasia M. Collins, and there are so many good chapters I hope I can assign if I teach management again! DOI: 10.1108/S0065-2830202556

✨Hi members! There's some important deadlines coming up. 📝 SHARPIES committee statements of interest are due May 23rd 🗳️ SHARP elections close on May 30th ®️ Conference registration ends June 9th Check your email for links and more info (or reply here if you have questions!)

My books is on that list! I would be so happy if someone reviewed it for SHARP news!

It’s springtime in New York and the new BOOK HISTORY is out! Featuring contributions by @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @juandmurillos.bsky.social @borna-i.bsky.social and others, this issue of @sharpweb.org ‘s official scholarly journal is 🔥📚! Link in the comments

I loved this book and her approach to everyday texts in a colonial setting. #BookHistory #Reading

Wonderfully rich &. diverse #bookhistory on display among the nominees!

Yeah! My latest book has been named as a finalist in the annual SHARP Book History Prize. Even if I don't win, that's exciting (for me)!

The jurors have spoken and named the finalists for SHARP's Book Prize.🏆 Stay tuned to this thread to meet all 13 books. 📚

Do you know about #OpenARC, the Open University’s new Arts & Humanities Research Centre? Find out more below👇🏼 @sharpweb.org @crasshlive.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org @britishacademy.bsky.social

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli: Shedding Light on Italian Book History (Lingua Franca, @sharpweb.org; #skystorians, #historyofthebook): sharpweb.org/linguafranca...

Yes! Registration for SHARP in Rochester, and then in 2026 the SHARPIES will be SHARP's first online book history festival, featuring all kinds of fun bookish events. 📚🤓

🫣 Psst, SHARP members, check your email for some exciting news about our annual meeting in 2026.

a sweet day in manuscript preparation is one where you confirm in proofs that there is no comma before the "Publishing" in SHARP @sharpweb.org

We are now offering free displaced scholar memberships for the rest of the 2025 membership year. Please circulate to SHARPists you think could benefit from this program! sharpweb.org/membership/

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