BSANZ 2024 – Bibliomania: Stories from Inside and Outside the Book

BIBLIOMANIA: STORIES FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE BOOK 

Mass-printed or bespoke, digital or physical, books convey information. They are also objects with stories to tell beyond their text, particularly in their physical form. Inside and outside, they carry traces of those stories. They may tell us about the people and technologies that made them, or the people whose hands they have passed through. They take on lives of their own. 

The 2024 BSANZ Conference will focus on the topic of the stories behind the book, including but not limited to: the book as object; book production and bindings; book collectors and collections; booksellers and bookselling; users and readers of books and the evidence of those activities; the afterlives of books: circulation, distribution and dispersal; digital access to books: advantages, challenges and beyond; preservation and conservation of books; and areas relating more broadly to bibliography and book history. 

The Conference will be held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, on 4–5 December 2024, with a Rare Books Librarians Day on the morning of 6 December 2024, for those working with rare books collections.

The Conference will be a hybrid conference, though BSANZ and the National Library of Australia would love to welcome you in person, if that is possible for you. In-person activities and a conference dinner are planned.

Please note that all conference presenters must be BSANZ members: http://www.bsanz.org/membership