SHARP News

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This is the Spring 2002 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 CONFERENCE; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; RESEARCH NOTES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: 10th Annual Conference, London, 10-13 July 2002 (SHARP CONFERENCE) (p. 1); Longman-History Today Prize (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Current Book History Research in Finland, by Jyrki Hakapää (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-3); Improving Access to Historical Collections: The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), by Marian Lefferts (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (pp. 3-5); On Collecting and Indexing the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1941, by Honor Ward (RESEARCH NOTES) (p. 5); The Birth of Gay Magazines in Post-War Japan, by Shingae Akitomo (RESEARCH NOTES) (pp. 5-6); Renaissance Society of America: SHARP@RSA, Toronto, 28-30 March 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Expanding Horizons: Print Cultures across the South Pacific, Dunedin, NZ, 10 September 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 6-7); 29th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 11-12 October 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); The History of Libraries in the United States, Bibliographical Society of America, Princeton University, Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 20th Annual Seminar on the History of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, Exeter University, UK, 23-25 July 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); 400th Anniversary of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, 8-20 September 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); Reese Fellowships in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 8-9); Book History at Texas A&M: A Workshop on the History of Books and Printing, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, 19-24 May 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Books in American Lives 1830-1890, American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture, Worcester, MA, 9-13 June 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); Towards Book History in India, Organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta in Association with the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, 8-9 February 2002, by Abhijit Gupta (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); BOOK REVIEWS, by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Juliet John, Andrew Gordon, Kristine Haugen, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Sharon Hamilton, Sharon Alker, J. Arthur Bond (pp. 10-14).