The Association for the Bibliography of History is holding an all-day meeting on Sunday, December 27. The morning session is devoted to “Current Bibliographical Work: Examples and Comparison,” and in the afternoon there will be a discussion on “Funding and Publishing Bibliographies.” Further details appear in the printed Program of the annual meeting.
In addition to this schedule of events, the ABH is also sponsoring a session entitled “The History of the Book: State of the Art, 1987.” Wayne A. Wiegand will chair the session, which is scheduled for December 29, 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Holmes Room at the Sheraton Washing ton Hotel. He will introduce the following speakers: Dr. John B. Hench, Associate Director for Research and Publications, American Antiquarian Society, who will discuss the subject from the perspective of the AAS’s Program in the History of the Book in American Culture; Dr. John Y. Cole, Director for the Center for the Book, Library of Congress, who will address the past, present, and future of the Center; and Dr. Margaret Child, Assistant Director for Research Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, who will present an overview of the book preservation movement in the United States. Everyone is welcome.
In Session 90, “Race and the Constitution at the Bicentennial,” Robert Cottrol, Boston College Law School, will not give his paper as listed in the Program. Instead, the session will focus on a discussion of Derrick Bell’s And We Are Not Saved. Joining Professor Bell, Harvard Law School, will be David J. Garrow, City College CUNY, Hugh D. Graham, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and Paul Finkelman, SUNY Binghamton. Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University, is the chair of this session.
In Session 33, entitled “Changing Forms: New York City Neighborhoods and the Experience of the Great Depression,” to be held Monday, December 28, 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Holmes Room of the Sheraton Washington Hotel, the correct title of Suzanne Wasserman’s, New York University, paper is “Cafes, Clubs, Corners, and Candy Stores: Youth Leisure Culture on the Lower East Side in the 1930s.” The title printed the the Program of the annual meeting was incorrect.
The session “Filmed History: Sources and Formats,” number 31 in the Program, will have an additional panelist in the person of historian/producer Rita Heller of Tenafly, New Jersey. ;
A reminder to those planning to visit the Library of Congress during the annual meeting. The Main Reading Room is closed for about one year. During this period, general book delivery and reference services will be provided on the fifth floor of the Adams Building. Access to collections and reading rooms in the Madison building will not be affected. To determine the availability of materials and space for general research needs, please write or telephone the Library before visiting: General Reading Room Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540; 202/287-5522.
In addition the Organization of American Historians will host a lunch eon for the Council of Department Chairs in the Vermont Room of the Sheraton Washington Hotel on December 30, during the annual meeting. Darlene Clark Hine, the John Harrah Professor of American History at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, will speak about the recently issued OAH pamphlet, Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Historians, and there will be a general discussion about hiring and promotion of minority historians. Representatives of the OAH Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Minority Historians in the Historical Profession and other OAH officers will also participate in the discussion. All department chairs are welcome. Please reserve luncheon space by contacting Michael Regoli, OAH, 112 North Bryan St., Bloomington, IN 47401; 812/335-7311; as soon as possible.
