SHARP News

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This is the Summer 2001 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; OBITUARY: ANGUS MCKAY FRASER; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: New Sharp Officers (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Book Research in Germany: Deutsche Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Book Research Society), by Mark Rectanus (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-2); Institut d'histoire du livre (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 2-3); SHARP 2002, University of London, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); The Community Library: An International One Day Conference on a Local Theme, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland, 19 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, Society of Antiquaries and Birkbeck College, London, 1-2 December 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 3); University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, MA in the History of the Book (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); APHA American Printing History Association 2001 Lieberman Lecture, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, 25 September 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada/History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume II (1840-1914), Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, 18-19 May 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Paul Arblaster, Alexandra Franklin, Emily B. Todd, David Chambers, William Noblett, Yannick Portebois, Peter R. Frank, Jonathan Rose, Graeme Gooday, Robert Matuozzi, Jon Topham, Linda K. Hughes, Priscilla Coit Murphy, Amy M. Thomas, Martin Harris (pp. 5-14).