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London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 256 pp.; 45.00 £ (hardcover). ISBN 0-7123-4707-0 (BL); 1-58456-053-3 (Oak Knoll). There is an extensive, and ever expanding literature on the [...]

Newcastle [Delaware]: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 357 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-063-0. It seems in keeping with a review of a descriptive bibliography of the work of Kay Boyle to [...]

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2001. 99 PP. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 0-7727-6036-5. This splendid catalogue celebrates two [...]

In the year 2001 the University of Toronto Press celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its founding. Those hundred years had seen many changes in its mandate and operations. It began [...]

London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. 144 pp.; $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-84000-421-5. This is a beautiful book illustrating the evolution of the book jacket in the twentieth century. It begins with a [...]

I. Toward a Literary Connection The study of authorship, literary culture, and publishing conditions in Upper Canada is illuminated by the brief convergence of two English-born writers, Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) [...]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxiv, 744 pp. £ 90 (hardcover). ISBN 0 521 573467. The new Cambridge History of the Book in Britain begins in medias res with the [...]

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii, 324 pp.; $27.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 0-300-08816-7. Professor Jackson should have known my grandmother. Her form of correspondence was, cultural protocols [...]

Occasional Publication no. 8. Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. xxx, 474 pp.; $100 Austral. (hardcover). ISBN 095982717-x. If you have never met Wallace Kirsop, you don't go [...]

New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xv, 216 pp.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1-99471-896-5. Caroline Archer. The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House 1876-1981. New Castle, Del.: [...]

Muckraking tabloid weeklies were a largely successful--and invariably controversial--part of Canadian English-language journalism in the years between the First and Second World Wars. While Bob Edwards' Calgary Eye Opener and [...]

The article discusses the books "Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents" by Reuben Gold Thwaites and "Monumenta Novae Franciae" by Lucien Campeau, focusing on their role in describing the relations between Jesuit missions and indigenous people in New France during the 17th century. Other topics include the use of these books to study the 17th century annual mission documents from New France, a discussion of the merits and downfalls of each book, and discussion of a third text on the topic "Relations des Jésuites contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable dans les missions des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans la Nouvelle-France" by the government of Quebec, which is only available in French.

The article discusses the 19th century Canadian book "Wacousta" by John Richardson, focusing on differences between the various editions of the book and how those differences impact how the audience views the function of the text. Other topics include the pirating of the text in 1833 by American publisher Adam Waldie for his periodical "Waldie's Select Circulating Library," information on the 1967 abridged edition of "Wacousta" from New Canadian Library, which is based off Waldie's version and edited for readability by editor Carl Klinck, and the creation of a Canadian edition by the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts. It also discusses the canonization of "Wacousta" within Canadian national literature.

The article discusses the development of electronic books, focusing on trends on how people are reading electronic books and how the books are being formatted to best fit on the small screens of smartphones. Other topics include the rise of wireless technology, such as smartphones, in developing countries over wired connections, a history of the printing and design of miniature books including a discussion of religious texts, such as phylactery, and the need for margin spaces for annotations, and how miniature book design can help inform the development of electronic books for smartphones.

The article announces that professor Carole Green was awarded the Marie-Tremaine medal in 2013 at the annual meeting of the Société bibliographique du Canada on June 3 at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.

The article announces that the Bibliographic Society of Canada has awarded professor and Canadian literature scholar Carole Gerson with the 2013 Tremaine Medal and Watters-Morley Prize.

The article reviews the online database entitled "Victorian Popular Culture" produced by Adam Matthew Digital, available at http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/victorian-popular-culture/.

The article explores the written advertisements for the Amazon Kindle, a reading device of electronic books, focusing on the media theory of remediation forwarded by scholars Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. The interrelationship between print books and electronic books in the advertising rhetoric used by Amazon.com is considered. Topics discussed include how new technologies or mediums are compared to old in marketing, a comparison between early printed books and manuscripts of the same period, and the relationship between readers, books, and electronic books.

The essay explores the impact of electronic books on the publishing and reading of children and youth literature. Considerations include picture books, the use of color and illustrations in such print books, and limitations of electronic readers. Other subjects include book reviews and sales ratings by the newspaper "New York Times," the use of interactive digital technologies in the creation of electronic books for children, and lack of book awards for children's literature written in electronic formats.

Digital publishing is still in its infancy, but it is useful to relate what might be called the prologue to the history of digital publishing in French in Quebec. This article presents the actors who have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the transition from print to digital culture in Quebec. It offers a panoramic view of this transition in the various publishing genres from newspapers and magazines, to journals, books, theses, dictionaries, bibliographical databases, and legal texts. A typology of the actors working in these different genres emerges, comprising publisher, aggregator (general or specialist), distributor, production technician, retailer, and librarian. The builders of Quebec's digital publishing milieu are acknowledged through brief descriptions of their projects and enterprises. Many of them have displayed a notable capacity to engage in the development of new models for the production and diffusion of culture and research. The quality of their products, services, and expertise has been recognized several times over through international partnerships and co-operative ventures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of electronic books and the use of digital and computer technologies in publishing. Topics considered include the use of electronic typesetting by the publisher Coach House Press of Toronto, Ontario beginning in the late 1960s, the digitalization project of library materials known as Project Gutenberg started by Michael Hart in 1971, and the introduction of the word processing program Microsoft Word in 1985. Other subjects include the introduction of the Kindle e-reading platform by Amazon.com in 2007, the impact of digital technologies on existing business models, and laws regarding book pricing.

The article discusses both print and electronic book versions available for the works of Roman philosopher and political theorist Marcus Tullius Cicero. Texts by Cicero were traditionally used for two purposes, for the study of Latin language and culture, and by more experienced scholars in fields such as rhetoric and political philosophy. A discussion of the history of printed works of Cicero from the nineteenth-century to the present, including topics such as the digitalization of books by Project Gutenberg, Amazon.com, and how Portable Document Format (PDF) files changed the effectiveness of reading electronic books, is presented.

The article provides an overview of the history of the Scholarly Digital Editions, a small academic publisher focused on producing electronic versions of scholarly books. Topics considered include the sale of electronic texts on CD-ROMs, the advent of the World Wide Web, and the author's work on the Canterbury Tales Project, scholarly research which started with the Hengwrt manuscript held at the National Library of Wales of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Scholarly Digital Editions was founded in 2000 to publish the findings of the Canterbury Tales Project and similar scholarly works.

The article announces that Professor Marcel Lajeunesse received the 2012 Marie Tremaine Medal and Watters-Morley Prize, which was presented to him in writing by Julie Frédette and read by Isabelle Robitaille at the May 28, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario).

Depuis plus de 75 ans, les prix littéraires du Gouverneur général constituent les principales récompenses littéraires au Canada. Cette note dresse la liste officielle révisée des lauréats, liste qui pouvait d'ailleurs être téléchargée pendant de nombreuses années sur le site du Conseil des Arts du Canada. L'auteur procède à un inventaire des irrégularités bibliographiques de cette liste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Charles Lovett. Lewis Carroll and the Press: an Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dodgson's Contributions to Periodicals. London and Newcastle, DE: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 117 pp.; [...]

In 1831, in the space of a few months, notices appeared in several Nova Scotia newspapers announcing proposals for the publication of two new collections of church music. One called [...]

T.H. Howard-Hill. British Literary Bibliography, 1980-1989: A Bibliography. Index to British Literary Bibliography, Volume VIII and Volume IX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 2 vols. $215.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 0-19-818643-6. Howard-Hill's [...]

Robin Healey. Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-1997. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 605 pp.; $95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8020-0800-3. Twentieth-century Italian literature has played an [...]

Glenn J. Woodsworth. Cheap Sons of Bitches. An Informal Bibliography of the Publications of William Hoffer, Bookseller. Vancouver: Tricouni Press, Stephen Lunsford, 1998. 100 pp.; $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-9697601-1-6. 94 [...]

Brian Gobbett and Robert Irwin. Introducing Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian History in English. Magill Bibliographies. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. 373 pp.; $45 US (hardcover). ISBN 0-8108-3383-2. The [...]

James King. Jack: A Life with Writers: The Story of Jack McClelland. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999. xxiv + 435 pp.; $34.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-676-97150-4. In his forty-year career [...]

Adrian Johns. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 754 pp.; $40 US (hardcover). ISBN 0-226-40121-9. This is a big, [...]

Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson. Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Studies in Gender and History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 331 [...]

Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly, eds. L. M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 267 pp.; $25.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8020-4406-9. The comments of scholars at the [...]

From the Gaelic culture on Cape Breton to tartan skirts in Victoria and Celtic rock music in the prairies, aspects of Scottish culture are in clear evidence across Canada today. [...]

Ten months have elapsed since Kaye Lamb left us, and in that interval there have been many tributes extolling his distinguished career as an archivist and librarian. Rather than echo [...]

Bruce Peel began life as he was to go on; being a pioneer and a forerunner: he anticipated the Armistice which ended the Great War by fully two years, when [...]

Lors de la reunion annuelle et de la conference de la Societe bibliographique du Canada tenues a Edmonton les 18-20 juin 2000, la citation suivante a ete lue par Patricia [...]

The Marie Tremaine Medal / La medaille Marie Tremaine The Marie Tremaine Medal is awarded annually by the Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Societe bibliographique du Canada for outstanding services to [...]

The article presents a speech given by president of the Bibliographic Society of Canada Anne Dondertman, written by Julie Frédette, during its annual general assembly in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 30, 2011, in which she honors historian, librarian, and library and information science professor Peter F. MacNally who was awarded the Marie Tremaine Medal and Watters-Morley Prize for his contribution to Canadian bibliography. McNally's speech in response to Dondertman's address is also included.

The article announces that librarian and historian Peter F. McNally has received the 2011 Marie Tremaine Medal and Watters-Morley Prize, which was awarded at the May 30, 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

The article reviews two special issues of the journal "The Devil's Artisan," both from 2008 and edited by Martha Fleming, titled "Allan Fleming's Many Worlds" and "In Allan Fleming's Archive."

The article presents a speech by Randall Speller, on the ocasion of the annual congress of the bibliographic Canadian society (Société bibliographique du Canada) held in Toronto, Ontario, on June 24, 2009, in which he discussed the winning of the Marie-Tremaine medal and Watters-Morley prize by George L. Parker, provided information on Parker's career, and praised his work as a researcher about the printing industry in Canada. The speech of response by Parker is also included in this article.

The study of the importation and use of children's books in Canada from 1840 to 1850 that were published in France by Maine, a Catholic publisher, offers a window on social and cultural history. Three groups took responsibility for disseminating these works: the Church, mainly through the intermediary of the Sulcipians; the liberal bookstore Fabre, supplier both to churches and to liberals who used them for matters not related to religion; and finally the state, through its efforts (particularly by P.J.O. Chauveau) to ensure that schools convey a common culture and an outlook on the modern world. Books published by Manic were at the heart of these efforts and served an evolving society that did not want to be bound to the Church — but only after passing through a methodical governmental selection process. Thus the little Manic books, in their polymorphic uses, escaped the culture of Catholicism and reveal tensions that existed at the core of Canadian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]