Bibliography Week 2017
2017

Bibliography Week happens every January in New York City, timed to correspond with the annual meeting of the Grolier Club.

The prestigious private collectors' group, whose step-back-in-time clubhouse (quite literally >tucked< into a busy side street in mid-Manhattan) proffers peace and quiet and rarefied, rejuvenating, air, hosts many of the week's events, but, like they say about the movies, New York City plays a character in the film, too!

Stop and wave at the ice skaters in Wollman Rink as you criss-cross Central Park from the Grolier clubhouse to Columbia University, the Academy of Medicine, and the venerable old NYPL; take a jaunt out to fabled Greenpoint to swoon over the latest achievements in book artistry at Booklyn, and ogle the hipsters while you're there (don't worry, they're used to it); join fellow bibliophiles at a classic New York pub (squint your eyes so your vision blurs, and pretend the guy drinking alone at the end of the bar is Whitman or Fitzgerald or Kerouac); and by all means, do grab some roasted chestnuts from one of the many sidewalk vendors as you dash to and fro — they (the nuts, not the vendors) really do taste just as good as they smell!

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Schedule of Events, Tuesday-Saturday, January 24-28

(For more information, visit www.GrolierClub.org)

Tuesday

2-4pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

Round table discussion on the Marquis de Lafayette

6-8pm Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library

535 W 114th Street, Room 523

Lecture by Meredith McGill, on the bicentennial of Harper & Brothers; reception follows

Wednesday

2:30-3:30pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

Mirjam Foot, on "Collecting modern design-bindings: What and Why?"

Thursday

11am-5pm Booklyn

37 Greenpoint Avenue, 4th Floor, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Booklyn’s Fine Press Salon

1-2pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

Lunchtime Exhibition Tour

6-9:30pm Metropolitan Club

1 East 60th Street at 5th Ave.

Annual Meeting and Dinner (Grolier Club members only)

Friday

2-4pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

New Scholars, presentation, awards, and papers

4-5pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America

5-6pm Grolier Club

47 E. 60th Street

Keynote speech: Ann Blair on “A Bibliographical Approach to Information: Afterthoughts on Too Much to Know;” reception follows

Saturday

11-12:30pm New York Academy of Medicine

1216 5th Avenue

Anthony Grafton on "How a Colonial Family Read, and Why: The Winthrops and their Books"

2-5:30pm New York Public Library

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Trustees’ Room, Second Floor

Annual meeting of the American Printing History Association; reception follows

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Mark Your Calendar!

Future Bib-Weeks:

• 2018: January 22-27
• 2019: January 21-26
• 2020: January 20-25
• 2021: January 25-30