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Editorial. Focuses on the role of professional conferences in the American visual arts. Fixtures of modern professional life; Pressure to public academic papers; Acceptance of a conference topic or paper; Representation of the visual arts at the American Studies Association.

The article reports on the activities that happened in 2006 for the American Society of Naturalists. The executive meeting held June 23, 2006 emphasized on the success of the three-editor system and electronic papers of the society's publication. The business meeting of the society focused on the presentation of the anti-wedge document to the Joint Council, which establishes medium-term and long-term goals to defend and promote the teaching of evolutionary biology. The next meeting of the joint committee pointed on the support of the Joint Council to the anti-wedge document.

Relates the author's experiences with the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) during his terms as president of the learned society in the United States in 1980-1984. Start of the computerization of the recording and of the transmission of information and of library practices; Changes in the financial management and operations of BSA; Establishment of a Bibliographical Projects Committee in 1983-1984 term to identify, stimulate and support bibliographical works; Fellowship programs of BSA.

Discusses how the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) was able to financially survive 100 years of existence as a scholarly organization in the United States. Development of BSA leadership; Funds provided by members George Watson Cole and Lathrop C. Harper intended to support bibliographical publication; Continued growth of the membership.

Discusses issues raised during 75th anniversary meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America in the United States in 1979. Distrust of analytical bibliography that had arisen in the wake of criticisms by D.F. McKenzie and others; Practice of descriptive bibliography; Increase in the production of scholarly editions; Author's accomplishments during his term as president of the society in 1984-1988.

Relates the author's experiences with the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) during his terms as president of the learned society in the United States in 1978-1980. Transition period in the field of bibliography; Fiscal responsibility of the president; Role of librarians and bibliographers in managing the meetings of BSA; Impact of federal regulations for tax-free institutions on BSA.

Relates the author's experiences with the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) during his terms as president of the learned society in the United States in 1996-2000. Speakers selected during the 1997 meeting of BSA; Expansion of the honorary membership; Establishment and management of several committees.

Relates the author's experiences with the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) during his terms as treasurer and president of the learned society in the United States. Election of the author as BSA treasurer during the 1966 meeting; Move by the author to award Margaret Stillwell as honorary member of the learned society during his term as president of BSA in 1976; Society's survival of its fiscal crisis during the terms of the author as treasurer and president.

Reports on developments related to book organizations as of June 1996. Includes reopening of the Fawcett Library for Women's Studies; Relocation of the Osborne Collection of Children's Literature; Invitation of applications for membership by the Imaginative Book Illustration Society.