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Please not that the deadline for submissions has been extended for this
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Collectors and Collecting:
Private Collections and their Role in Libraries
Proposals are invited for papers for a conference to be held at Chawton
House Library on 19 and 20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by
Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department, and
Goucher College, Baltimore.
There are many examples of collections put together by individuals that are
now valuable assets of the libraries to which they have been donated and to
the wider cultural heritage. Such collections include the Henry and Alberta
Hirshheimer Burke collection of rare editions of Jane Austen's novels and
related materials at Goucher College, and the John Charles Hardy collection
of eighteenth-century novels, a substantial part of which now forms a part
of Chawton House Library.
This conference will focus on individual collectors of books and manuscripts
and their collections. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
a.. the role of such collections within the context of the libraries where
they may now be accommodated
b.. the way in which libraries manage an individual's collection
c.. the act and process of private collecting
d.. the motivation of the individual collector
e.. 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).
Proposals of no more than 500 words for individual papers of twenty minutes,
or for entire panels of three/four papers should be sent to the conference
organizers Gillian Dow, Gail McCormick and Helen Scott at the following
email addresses: gail.mccormick@goucher.edu and helen.scott@chawton.net or
by post to
Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire, UK GU34 1SJ.