SHARP News

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This is the Winter 2000-01 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: GUEST COMMENT: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; RELATED SOCIETIES; NOTES & QUERIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE. This issue includes the following contributions: GUEST COMMENT: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (pp. 1-4); The Great New Zealand Round-up, by Sydney Shep (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Update on Activities, by Laurel Brake (RELATED SOCIETIES) (p. 5); Call for ASECS/SHARP Research Entries (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 5); The Impact of the Journalist-Critic, 1900-40: Panel for MLA 2001, New Orleans, LA, 27-30 December 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 5-6); Rosamond Lehmann and the Craft of Letters, Université de Marne La Vallée and Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Paris, France, 28-29 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 15-18 November 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ) Conference, Adelaide University, South Australia, Australia, 27-28 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); People of the Book: Explorations in Jewish Publishing and Bibliography, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 4 March 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 7-8); American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) SHARP Panel, New Orleans, LA, 18-22 April 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference: Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothéque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); The Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History at the University of Reading Public Lecture Series, Spring 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Sandars Lectures 2001, University Library, Cambridge, 28 February, 7 and 14 March 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); History of the Book: The Next Generation, Drew University, 16 September 2000, by Jonathan Rose (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 8-9); American Printing History Association (APHA) Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000, by Judy Donnelly (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); Professional Readers: Libraries for the Church and the Professions to 1850, Institute of English Studies, University of London, England, 28 October 2000, by Keith Manley (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada Open Conference for Volume 1: Beginnings to 1840, University of Toronto, 24-25 November 2000, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Candy Gunther Brown, Ralph Hanna, Maureen Bell (pp. 12-14); Library History Group of the Library Association (UK) (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Wins APHA Award (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).